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Home Furnishings that Help You Go from Summer Style to Autumn Looks [2023]
With a color palette full of burnt oranges, rusty reds, and deep browns, the autumn season offers plenty of opportunities to transform your home into a cozy haven. Whether you want your living room, dining room, entryway, or all of your home furnishings to mirror the transition into fall, our easy tips can make your vision a reality.
Incorporate the Essence of Autumn
Few things can trigger our memories as vividly as fragrances. That’s because the parts of our brains that deal with scents and memories are highly interconnected. Our sense of smell can travel a direct path into both our emotion and memory centers, making a fall bouquet a perfect way to set a scene.
To quickly take your space from beachy retreat to autumn harvest, we suggest placing some scented candles or an oil diffuser on your accent tables, coffee tables, and other surfaces. Using scented candles like Macintosh apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, and caramel, you can evoke countless fall memories while giving your space an undeniable fall feel. An entryway bench, like this one pictured above, is a great place for candles and other fall décor.
Add Warm, Autumn Tones
Your next step is to bring some of autumn’s gorgeous, earthy colors into your house. You can achieve this in many different ways, including with fabric. For instance, if your curtains are still light and summery, try switching them out for a deeper, cozier tone. A rich mocha or warm amber hues are perfect choices to usher your home into the fall season.
Another simple way to incorporate fall colors into your space is with decorative accents. Think throw pillows, accessories, area rugs, and wall hangings. Apart from fall colors, you can also use these items to bring in some traditional fall patterns, such as flannel, paisley, deep-colored florals, and more. And you can have them anywhere in your home, including your patio. We recommend these soft accent pillows from Classic Accessories, shown below!
Create a Cozy Fire
Picture this: you and the family are about to curl up together and watch a movie. What makes that picture even better? A TV stand like the Tresanti Bennson TV Console with ClassicFlame® CoolGlow® 2-in-1 Electric Fireplace and Fan at Costco, shown above. It offers supplemental zone heating for rooms up to 1,000 square feet AND features a cooling fan for use during the warmer months. Enjoy the brilliant, dancing flames whether you are a) using the electric fireplace for heat, b) the cooling fan for a breeze, or c) none of the above.
Beyond matching the flickering flames of your scented candles, the glow of dancing flames makes any room feel more cozy. If you don’t have the room for a larger unit, there are more compact options. A simple wall mantel electric fireplace, like the one shown below, has a small footprint in your home. And it only requires that you plug it in – no complicated set-ups involving outside professionals required.
Update Your Outdoor Space
Just because summer is over doesn’t mean that your backyard and patio are out of commission. Rather, fall is the best time of year to bundle up in a warm sweater and fuzzy socks while sitting next to a glowing fire (like the one pictured below) with friends and family. From telling ghost stories to reviewing how the latest football game went, gathering around an outdoor fire provides new ways to make fall memories.
Give Your Home a Fall Makeover
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