15 DIY Fall Decor Ideas To Warm Up Your Home

This craft creates charming fall pumpkins using mason jar lids painted bright orange and tied together with yarn. The lids fan out to form the pumpkin shape, while cinnamon sticks serve as natural stems, adding a rustic touch.

The process involves spray painting the lids, drying them thoroughly, and then securing them tightly with yarn to maintain the shape. Once assembled, these pumpkins make simple, affordable centerpieces that bring seasonal warmth to any space.

This item demonstrates how to create decorative pumpkins using flexible metal dryer vent tubing. The tubing is shaped into circles, glued at the ends, and painted in fall colors to mimic the look of pumpkins.

A cinnamon stick or small piece of wood is added as a stem, and optional accents like Spanish moss provide texture and warmth. These pumpkins offer a customizable, budget-friendly way to add seasonal charm to home decor.

These glamorous confetti pumpkins add a sparkling twist to traditional fall decor by combining faux pumpkins with chunky, colorful confetti. The pumpkins are painted with a satin white base to make the confetti colors pop, creating a striking contrast and a festive look.

The design involves applying glue strategically to the pumpkin’s surface and sprinkling confetti to achieve a dripping effect. This simple craft can be completed quickly and is suitable for all ages, making it a fun project to brighten up any autumn space.

This item showcases a beautifully styled fall mantel featuring a mix of rustic and seasonal elements. It highlights the use of layered wreaths, colorful “GIVE THANKS” blocks, pumpkin candlesticks, and natural branches adorned with mini leaf clothespins to create a warm autumn atmosphere.

The mantel also incorporates creative touches like garlands with orange string lights and leaves suspended by fishing line to add movement and glow. At night, candles and lights enhance the cozy ambiance, making the space inviting and perfect for celebrating the fall season.

This item features a charming fall banner made from crepe paper leaves and book pages, clipped onto twine with antique clothespins. The combination of natural textures and vintage book pages creates a cozy, rustic look perfect for autumn mantel decor.

The banner alternates between plain fall leaves and leaves covered with cream-colored book pages, adding visual interest and warmth. It complements other seasonal decorations like white pumpkins and twine pears, tying together a welcoming fall vignette.

This craft project transforms real fall leaves into a charming tree-shaped decoration perfect for autumn home decor. By rolling poster board into a cone and layering leaves of various sizes with hot glue, it creates a textured, natural look that mimics a miniature tree.

The process involves arranging leaves from wide and short at the base to small and thin at the top, filling gaps for a full appearance. The finished piece stands upright and can be displayed on a mantle or repurposed for seasonal decor with added elements like snow.

This display features a charming autumn arrangement inside a clear apothecary jar. It combines mini white pumpkins, pine cones, faux fall foliage, and leftover nuts to create a seasonal centerpiece that adds warmth to any space.

The use of artificial leaves ensures the display remains fresh-looking over time without wilting. Positioned in a front hall, the jar can be easily updated with seasonal accents like Halloween-themed fillers to keep the decor festive and inviting.

This project transforms inexpensive plaid kitchen towels into a charming Fall pillow with a simple embroidered design. It involves tracing a printed pattern onto the towel, hand-stitching the embroidery, sewing two towels together, and inserting a pillow form for a cozy seasonal accent.

The finished pillow adds a handmade touch to autumn decor without requiring advanced sewing skills or costly materials. It can be washed gently and reused each year, making it a practical and budget-friendly way to refresh your living space for the season.

This craft project creates a colorful candy corn design using buttons glued onto a burlap background inside a simple frame. The layered buttons in yellow, orange, and white add texture and dimension, making it a charming piece of fall decor.

The process involves painting a candy corn outline on burlap, then arranging and gluing buttons by size to fill each color section. Once complete, the framed button art can brighten a mantel or be given as a handmade seasonal gift.

This item features a colorful candy corn design created by gluing yellow, orange, and white buttons onto a burlap background inside an 8×10 frame. The layered buttons add texture and dimension, making it a charming piece of fall decor perfect for a mantel or seasonal display.

The process involves painting a candy corn outline on burlap, then arranging buttons from largest to smallest to fill in the shape. It offers a simple, hands-on craft that combines painting and button art to create a festive, handmade decoration.

This item highlights simple ways to refresh the look of a fireplace and mantel without extensive renovation. It suggests painting the mantel in a new color, re-tiling the surrounding area, or adding decorative elements like candles and artwork to create a fresh focal point.

The ideas focus on easy, affordable updates that can dramatically change the fireplace’s appearance. These changes help transform a worn or outdated fireplace into an attractive centerpiece that enhances the room’s overall style.

This item demonstrates how to create a whimsical, stacked pumpkin planter using plastic pumpkins and colorful flowers or succulents. The pumpkins are drilled and threaded onto a tall garden stake, alternating the angle to achieve a “tipsy” effect, making a charming fall decoration.

The planter can be placed in a garden pot or outdoor space and filled with soil and plants or artificial flowers for a seasonal display. It is lightweight, easy to assemble and disassemble, and can be stored for reuse, adding festive flair to any autumn garden or porch.

This craft transforms three plastic pumpkin buckets into a charming snowman or a festive fall decoration. The pumpkins are stacked and glued together, then painted white to create the snowman’s body, with added details like a painted face, buttons, stick arms, and a scarf.

The decoration can be customized with a hat, ribbons, flowers, or a small bird perched on the arms for a seasonal touch. It offers a creative way to repurpose Halloween buckets into a unique display for fall, Thanksgiving, or winter.