Ah, fall, when the air chills to a fine crisp and the leaves turn the most glorious colors. It's a splendid season that deserves its own décor, especially outdoors. Decorating the outside of your home is one of the most important things you can do to share your love of the falling leaves season.
The Key to Great Outdoor Fall Décor
More than specific ideas, it's important to keep in mind key themes when decorating your porch and yard for fall. In a nutshell, you want your décor to convey all the wonderful aspects of the season: its colors, its cozy feeling, its abundance, and so on.
1. Fall foliage — We all love strolling through the fall foliage, and taking in the rich hues of brown, red, orange, and yellow. Make sure to generously use these colors in your décor. You can also directly incorporate real, or artificial, fall leaves into your display.
2. Harvesttime — Traditionally, autumn is when the crops are harvested. This is why across the northern hemisphere harvest festivals take place in late September through November. Symbols of the harvest are a staple of any autumn display. Plus, using a variety of harvest symbols will give your display an abundance of natural fall color. Incorporate decorations like bundles of wheat, haybales, cornucopias, pumpkins, and corn. Combine them with farm-style (or farmcore) decorations, like pitchforks, milk cans, and miniature barns.
3. Cozy — Fall is cozy. It's the first chill in the air after the heat of summer, but before the bitter cold of winter. You just want to throw on your comfiest sweater and curl up with a good book. Use decorations that evoke the coziness of fall, like candle lanterns, a cute scarecrow, or a heartwarming sign that reads "Family, Fall, Football."
4. Autumn gold — In fall, we see golden hues everywhere: sunlight filtering through orange, yellow, or red leaves, those magical twilight hours, dried fields of grass, and so much more. Bring the enchantment of autumn gold to your décor with fairy lights that produce a soft yellow light. Drape them over gold/yellow, orange, or red elements for the full effect, including wheat bundles, haybales, pumpkins, and foliage.
Remember that a single element can tie into more than one theme: a cute scarecrow is both cozy and associated with the harvest, a strand of artificial fall leaves with fairy lights incorporates both fall foliage and autumn gold.
In this simple porch display, we see all the key themes incorporated. The miniature haybales, the (fabric) pumpkins, and the lush wreath all evoke the harvest. The "Hello Harvest" door mat and the cute scarecrow are cozy and harvest themed, and the "Family, Fall, Football" sign is definitely cozy. Plenty of colors inspired by fall foliage are present in the display, and, at nighttime, the ceramic pumpkin fairy light lanterns produce an autumn-gold glow.
Get Great Outdoor Decorations for Your Fall Display at Party City
We have everything you need to create a display that's pure autumn magic. From the cozy and cute, like harvest gnomes and smiling scarecrows, to the lush and beautiful, like strands of leaves and fall bouquets, you'll find all your outdoor fall decorations at Party City.
