Thursday: Fall Home Tour (Indoors Only)

We are almost finished with the outside fall decorating of our home, but for now, I hope you enjoy our indoor fall home tour.

This is a fall wreath I made two years ago. I am currently making two new wreaths for our French doors in the back. 

Just behind our front door, we have our burlap art and clip frames. I swapped out our usual photographs to display some super cute fall art that I downloaded from On Sutton Place. 

Here is the sofa table in our entry way:

A bowl of pine cones on our end table. 

This is our kitchen: 

The candle trio is from Yankee Candle, the cutting board from a local antiques mall, and the jar and sunflowers are a DIY creation. 

Dining room: 

Our "mantle" in the dining room, decorated very similarly to last year: 

A simple tablescape using milk glass and gourds: 

Daughters' playroom 

These prints are all free downloads from the Internet. One of them I talked about on Monday, and the others are from Etsy. I wanted some fall art in the playroom that would appear playful and cute :)

I really love the deer fawn. 

The squirrel and wellies are super cute, too, 

Home office/studio: 

This room will be getting a huge makeover in the next few months- we are changing its purpose entirely. But for now, here is how we decorated it for fall. 

We've had the "B" ceramic pumpkin since before we got married. I love it! 

The two small pumpkins are from Dollar Tree. There are also some seagrass pears in a chicken wire basket. 

Our hall bath: 

We'll show you the outdoor tour next week: Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoyed our tour!

Linking to Stonegable, Worthing Court, Cedar Hill Farmhouse, Confessions of a Plate Addict, and French Country Cottage!

Spring decorating

I love spring time. I love how everything comes back to life after a bare, bleak winter. I love seeing all the new baby animals and watching the trees and flowers begin to bloom. 

Since I can't live outside, I like to bring as much of that brightness and liveliness into my home by decorating for spring. Last year, I decorated more with the holidays, but this year, I wanted something that would last through St. Patrick's Day and Easter, and carry us on into summer. 

Falling into Home: 2014 Home Tour

A few weeks ago, I posted our fall home tour. I have since done some updating, and while there are things I would do differently next year, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. One thing I love about my fall home decor is the fact that there are so many natural elements. There are plenty of real pumpkins, gourds, pine cones, acorns and burlap. I just wish I had incorporated more florals and fall leaves.

We kept our outdoor decor simple this year. I wanted some mums, but I could never seem to catch them on sale, or when I did catch them on sale, they didn't look like anything I wanted. Now it is getting colder here and I know they won't last long if I do buy them. Next year, I'd like to have a little more fall decor outside.

Pantry organization

  

I love our pantry because it has plenty of storage space. We do not have a large kitchen. However, our large pantry makes up for the lack of square footage in the kitchen.  One corner of our pantry functions as a coat closet. Because there is so much space, it would be very easy to "junk it up" and not organize it at all. I didn't want to do that, so I tried to organize it as I was unpacking our kitchen. As always, if your system doesn't make sense, you aren't organized :) Our pantry boasted really nice built in wood shelves. However, I still chose to maximize the space by using shelf risers. They are inexpensive and can be purchased almost anywhere. I also used simple white Rubbermaid baskets so they could be wiped clean with a damp rag. Clear canisters are also a must so I can see when I'm running low on pasta, cereal and baking goods. Since I want everything to have a place and always be returned to its proper place, I used some free editable labels from Better Homes and Gardens. There are a plethora of free printable labels available on Pinterest, too.