Simple Ideas Make Fall Decorating Easy

Fall is the perfect time to bring the outdoors inside to decorate for the season, says Amy Hyler, owner of Back Porch Designs & Gifts in Prairie Grove.

“Everyone has branches,” Hyler said. “You can get some branches from outside, go to the market and get a pumpkin and make a centerpiece. You can use a lot of things you already have in your house or your yard.”

Fall is Hyler’s favorite time to decorate because there are so many different textures to use.

Examples are pine cones, crap apples, evergreens, pumpkins, boxwood branches.

There’s also the standard corn stalks and hay bales to decorate the outside of a home.

Hyler noted that fall decorations do not have to be just red, orange and yellow colors. There is not anything wrong with adding pink, green and white to fall decorations.

“White is hot right now and everyone wants white pumpkins,” she said.

When creating a fall piece, Hyler advises to find a container, gather materials and start creating. The standard rule is that the height of a decoration should be one-third taller than the container.

“Always put in an odd number of items, not even,” she said.

Other fall decorating ideas are candles with fall scents, fresh porch flowers and wreaths to greet visitors to the front door.

Fall decorations can last through the end of November and by exchanging out some of the items in a decoration, it can easily transition from fall into Christmas, Hyler said.

PHOTOS BY LYNN KUTTER ENTERPRISE-LEADER Many simple items can be used to decorate the home for fall. Using silk sunflowers in a basket is one idea.

A traditional fall decoration is always popular and easy to put together with pumpkins, mums and cornstalks. This scene is outside Onion Creek Home, a store with decor, antiques, apparel and gifts in Farmington.

Amy Hyler, owner of Back Porch Designs & Gifts, works on a fall piece for her store in Prairie Grove. Fall is her favorite time to decorate.