I decorated our back patio for fall this past week. I still want to get some more pumpkins, but here's what the back of our house looks like now. All festive and ready for a Fall Festival spotlight.
In case you're wondering - we do not have a front door. Yea. Strange, huh? Previous owners built a room over the front entry and it's one of those projects that we'll work on down the road. (Dear HGTV, if reading this, we'd be an ideal candidate for Curb Appeal! Call me! lol Darn that TruValue for not considering my home FULL of DIY projects too!) Anyway...that's why you won't see my front entry. I have window and a brick chimney facing the road. Welcoming, isn't it? Some day. ANYWAY - This is where we enter the house. I
hope to do a little decorating for Halloween in the barn this week and finish making the grape arbor a little festive.
I decorated my window boxes with things from the yard. Birch bark, grapes, leaves, pinecones and silver dollar plants. Since it's a short time between now and Christmas...I wanted an inexpensive option. I love how they turned out and the best part - FREE decor!
Mini metamorphosis. These guys before:
Now after a coat of oil rubbed bronze spray paint:
In my house # pots (
tutorial here), I replaced my pansies with pumpkins (painted with simple metallic stripes). I grabbed some sunflowers and mini pumpkins today today.
I also gathered up some branches from the yard
(we lost a couple of branches due to storms) to create swags over the French doors (held in place with s-hooks). My wreaths are from last year.
Mr. DIY's herb garden received a little autumn magic with a clean up, cabbage, teeny pumpkins, a lantern and some acorns.
Remember the nibbled pinecones? I added them to my Juniper.
Along with some acorn-filler (from the yard).
Look at my yard! I'm not kidding when I say the squirrels are bombing! I actually almost landed flat on my back today. It's like walking on marbles.
I painted fall leaves on my doormats. Because the one I found online is out-of-stock and was probably more than I wanted to spend anyway. I like this one:
But I bought this one. I should have left it alone. Nice, huh? But it's not my style. It's my Before photo:
Now: (This could work with an old door mat too). Head over to The DIY Show Off for a
tutorial.
Pretty for a low budget. :)
And here is some inside decorating... (Click
here for more details, links to tutorials)
Fall Candle, Birch Planter and Autumn Mantel
Grape Arbor(still a work in progress...but fall is full of grapes!)
Faux-Mercury Glass Pumpkins
Fall Tablescape 
House # Pumpkins
Football Season!
Spooky Vignette...Nevermore tree
I love my copper penny jar candles for fall too...
Mod Podge Pumpkin & FALL
