Decorating your living room for the fall season can be as easy as adding candles, giving your mantel a touch of gourds and a seasonal wreath, filling a vase with colorful autumn leaves, or adding plush velvet throw pillows in shades of rust, crimson, and mustard to your sofa. From accessories to lighting, furniture to autumnal paint colors, here are some cozy and straightforward fall living room decor ideas that truly capture the essence of this beautiful season.
1. Layer Cozy Textures
Cozy Fall Living Room
Enhance the comfort of your living room by incorporating soft, warm, and fluffy textures. Leanne Ford Interiors' 1906 Echo Park cabin embodies coziness with its rustic stone fireplace surround, raw wood-clad walls and ceilings, and a blend of vintage furnishings. A soft Beni Ourain rug and a generous armchair draped with a fuzzy blanket and a plush sheepskin create a welcoming spot for those crisp fall evenings.
2.Accent with Amber Glass
Fall Living Room Decor Accents
A Beautiful Mess
Achieve a touch of autumn in your living room with a carefully chosen decor accent. A Beautiful Mess has transformed a light-catching amber glass vase by adding branches, turning it into a stunning autumn centerpiece on a DIY live-edge coffee table. This bright living room is decorated in soothing shades of pink, white, and gray.
3.Set Up a Listening Corner
Fall Living Room with Dark Walls
Embrace the fall mood by incorporating dark walls into your living room. Louis Duncan-He Designs has taken this inviting living room to the next level with a moody black accent wall. Floating shelves displaying beloved album covers and a sound system are ready for relaxing evenings at home with friends and family.
4. Add Ambient Lighting
Fall Living Room Lighting
As the days grow shorter and darker, use warm lighting to brighten up your living room. AHG Interiors has flanked the back door of this rustic chic home with modern wall sconces, creating an ambiance reminiscent of taper candles. The result is an inviting glow in this open-plan living and dining room.
5. Embrace Plush Velvets
Fall Living Room Color Palette
Bring the luxurious feeling of fall into your living room by adding plush velvet furniture or accessories in rich autumn shades. Brexton Cole Interiors has chosen a burnt orange velvet sofa with scalloped curves to decorate this traditional row house living room, making it especially fitting for fall while remaining versatile for year-round use.
6. Stock Your Bar Cart
Fall Living Room Bar Cart
As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, there's all the more reason to set up a living room bar cart, just like this one from Inspired by Charm. The bottom shelf is stocked with spirits, while the top shelf displays glassware and a repurposed vintage trophy holding a bunch of dyed wheat stalks, evoking the spirit of harvest season. A lit tea candle indicates that the bar is open and ready for guests.
7. Stack Your Coffee Table
Fall Living Room Coffee Table
In the fall, ensure your coffee table is stacked with plenty of reading materials. It's even better if your living room, like this one from Leanne Ford Interiors, boasts a wood-burning fireplace nearby.
8. Set Up a Cocktail Tray
Fall Living Room Flower Arrangement
When entertaining, add small touches that celebrate fall to create a sense of occasion befitting the season. Inspired by Charm has artfully styled a cocktail tray that holds apple cider cocktails, simple taper candles, a jug of fall flowers, and a small decorative pumpkin, turning this leather ottoman into a cocktail table meant for two.
9. use Weathered Finishes
Fall Living Room
Incorporating weathered finishes and rustic materials like leather and wood can infuse your living room with a warm and inviting fall atmosphere. Leanne Ford Interiors has chosen a pair of comfortable, weathered French leather armchairs for this relaxed and inviting Pittsburgh living room. These chairs complement the dark reclaimed wood floors and the industrial-style, weathered wood and metal coffee table.
10. Highlight with Fall Shades
Fall Living Room Color Palette
Vibrant rust and mustard accents work well throughout the year, but they truly resonate in autumn when the leaves begin to turn. In this living room designed by Chango & Co., a mix of artwork with shades of pink and white for walls, floors, and ceilings provides a fresh and modern atmosphere.
11. Warm Up the Walls
Fall Living Room Paint Colors
Painting your living room in a warm earth tone, such as mustard or terracotta, will make it feel especially inviting in the fall season. Interior designer Leah Alexander of Beauty Is Abundant has chosen warm orange-hued paint for the walls in this living room, which complements the cognac leather couch, creating an inviting and relaxing space to enjoy a fall evening.
12. Celebrate Dark Wood
Rustic Fall Living Room Fireplace
Rustic interiors come alive in the fall. Leanne Ford Interiors has
complemented dark wood on the walls, floors, and ceiling and a substantial stone fireplace with modern furniture and decor in lighter shades, creating a modern rustic gathering space that's
13. Keep It Light
Neutral Fall Living Room Decor
If you reside in a summery climate and your living room follows suit, consider swapping jewel-toned velvets for light and neutral fall decor. Emily Henderson Design has adorned this light and bright living room with pale pumpkin decorations and a light wood vase containing a sculptural branch, hinting at the fall season while harmonizing with the existing decor style.
14. Set a Tea Table
Fall Cottage Style Living Room
In the fall, small everyday rituals become more meaningful as we seek comfort and reassurance in our homes. In this small English country living room from Lobster and Swan, a tea set graces a tree stump coffee table, ready for tea time during those off-hours when you need a pick-me-up.
15. Use Darker Accent Pillows
Fall Living Room Throw Pillows
You can signify the transition to fall by adding a handful of darker accent pillows to a light-colored sofa without altering the entire room. In this living room designed by Ajai Guyot for Emily Henderson Design, a couple of chocolate-colored throw pillows and a soft cocoa-hued rug ground the seating area in a room predominantly decorated in shades of white.
16. Stock a Vintage Cabinet
Fall Living Room
A straightforward way to decorate for fall is to style a single area, such as a cabinet, console table, or buffet. In this living room from Inspired by Charm, a vintage glass-front cabinet serves as a vignette for all things fall, from stacked blankets to amber glass and pumpkin figurines.
17. Restyle Your Built-Ins
Fall Living Room Bookcase Styling Ideas
Revamping a bookcase is a simple method to decorate for fall. Ursula Carmona of Home Made by Carmona has styled her built-in living room bookcase with autumn in mind, gathering earth-toned books in beiges and browns, along with art, seasonal greens, and gold accents.
18. Spin the Color Wheel
Fall Living Room with Orange Accents
For a high-contrast look, decorate with fall accent colors that reside on the opposite side of the color wheel from your living room's palette. This blue-and-white living room from Thistlewood Farms may be adorned in the colors of a Greek island, but come fall, it undergoes a transformation with a vase of orange flowers and a bright pumpkin that offer contrast and signify the changing season.
19. Use Playful Decor Accents
Fall Living Room Coffee Table Display
To enjoy those cool fall evenings without resorting to the TV, why not keep a stylish chess set on the coffee table that doubles as decor? Alternatively, take inspiration from Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona, who constructed a concealed DIY pull-out gaming and puzzle table for her living room. This table encourages play and can be effortlessly stowed away to maintain a clutter-free environment.
20.Create a Cozy Reading Corner
Reading Corner Styled for Fall
Make your reading corner feel cozy for fall by introducing a few season-appropriate additions. Emily Henderson Design has adorned a neutral upholstered armchair with a throw pillow and an extra blanket in vibrant fall shades of mustard and orange.
21. Accent with Gold
Fall Living Room with Gold Accents
Create a warm and inviting glow in a fall living room with gilded accents. Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona has filled a trio of gold-accented vases with crimson autumn leaves, providing a simple, cost-effective, and eco-friendly nod to the season.
22. Add a Blanket Ladder
Fall Living Room Blanket Ladder
If you require a spot to store the extra blankets that will come in handy in the fall, consider storing them on a decorative ladder. Interior designers Emily Henderson and Priscilla Frost have leaned an arched wood ladder against the wall, stocked with seasonal blankets, adding a cozy touch to the living room.
23. Bring the Outdoors In
Fall Earth Tone Living Room
To create a relaxing fall living room that brings the outdoors inside, layer earth tones and natural materials. Lobster and Swan have artfully combined neutral linens, patterned textiles, wood accents, and a mix of dried flowers and plants to establish an effortless and cozy atmosphere. This look perfectly complements rustic reclaimed flooring in an English country cottage living room.
24. Add Vintage Accents
Vintage accents can elevate a fall living room decorated in a rich palette of brown shades. In this Spanish Revival living room by Tyler Karu Design + Interiors, a rocking chair beside the fireplace beckons on cold fall evenings. A repurposed vintage trunk serves as a coffee table with hidden storage for additional blankets. A mix of finishes, including grasscloth wallpaper and glossy fireplace tiles, adds depth to the overall design.
25. Light Some Candles
Fall Living Room With Candles
Never underestimate the power of candlelight in making a fall living room feel exceptionally inviting. Ryann Miller for Emily Henderson Design has introduced ambient lighting using simple orange taper candles on the coffee table and in a wall-mounted sconce. The soft lighting carries a nostalgic atmosphere, perfect for fall, and complements the caramel leather sofa, dark teal walls, and throw pillows in shades of rust and green.
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