Welcome Fall with Florals & Pumpkins – A Fall Home Tour

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Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s Autumn Home Tour hosted by our friend Cindy from County Road 407. If you are just coming over from Michelle’s home at Thistle Key Lane for the first time, welcome! Didn’t you just love Michelle’s home decorated for the season? Sooooo pretty!

This home tour was the impetus I needed to really dust and clean and get our living room all spiffed up for the the pretty autumn season.

It also was the inspiration for getting my fingers dirty out in the front planters… 😉

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Welcoming Fall on the Front Porch

I started out front by cutting back the begonias and digging up the healthy ones and repotting them into smaller pots. I tried this last year, digging up last year’s begonias, and found I could overwinter them in the greenhouse/shed and they overwintered really well. The angel wing begonias fared the best.

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I filmed indoors with my Canon first then popped outside to film the flowers after I finally had them all planted up (I was going back and forth). However, I didn’t realize until downloading the photos that I forgot to bring down the lighting.

So… these photos are a bit washed out. I am still happy with how the planters turned out and I am glad I picked up sixteen or so mums at Lowe’s Labor Day sale ~ 5 for $10. 😉

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After shooting with the Canon, I realized I had forgotten to bring the pumpkins out of the truck bed… Oh well. C’est la vie!

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So I took a couple more photos with my phone to show these soft creamy white pumpkins! I plan on getting more over the next week as they arrive in stores.

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I love Cinderella or Fairy Tale pumpkins but I haven’t seen any yet this season. Well… now that you’ve seen our front porch all set for fall, let’s come on inside and tour our living room!

And would you believe acorns are already beginning to fall? They began dropping during the final days of August into the first week of September. They have really ramped up even though many are not fully ripe, falling since then. The squirrels are busy eating them.

Are we in for a long winter?? Hope not, but let’s enjoy autumn’s beauty while we can!

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Autumn in our Living Room

I began the living room like I did out front, I removed some of the moss balls from inside the tall urn and used the remainder as a frog. I layered in several different yellow and white fall florals, including these large faux sunflowers I found at Hobby Lobby.

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This sweet vintage creamware “boy and urn” was just gifted to me by my mother-n-law. I love him! I plan on fixing the hole in his shoulder with non-sanded grout and clear fingernail polish (a trick taught by a friend who used to fix chipped china that way).

It was really fun to add in a small crushed piece of chickenwire, then place in dried roses, a couple of dried hydrangea and leaves from our garden!

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I changed out the summer patriotic pillow covers for these Pottery Barn floral ones I picked up this spring.

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They fit in well with our decor for any time of year so I am excited to use them this fall. I still need to finish the slipcover for the green plaid wing chair, which is why the piece of white matelasse is still hanging under the cushion, lol! 😉

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Our sofa table has the perfect pumpkin coloring in its stain. Once in a while I think about painting it, but then I just can’t. It fits into any decor we have ever had in its current state.

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Would you believe this was an ugly yellowish 1940’s mid-century flecked coffee table in its first life?? It looks soooo much better as just simply stained. It is a beautiful clear-grained Danish maple table put together just with pegs and glue. The man who turned and added the legs for me was amazed at how well built it was. It is one of my most favorite almost-antique pieces. 🙂

For fall, I’ve layered this table with several books, a couple of woven mats and family photographs of our children from when they were younger, and Milo, our grandson. His photo is just visible on the lower right, below his dad at the same age (4 yrs. old).

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Just another look at the coffee table vignette…

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And that’s our living room all decorated for the autumn season. Now let’s go check out the home of Lora of Lora Bloomquist. Everyone’s homes are linked below.

Enjoy the tour!!!

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Happy fall, y’all,