Isabella Martinez | Lifestyle, Inspiration & More

Originally published: October 7, 2023 |

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Bring the warmth of the fall season to your home with these 5 home decor tips!

Texture Makes a Big Difference

A sure way to make any space feel cozier and warm is to utilize textured materials and fabrics in your furnishings and decor. Fabrics like knit, velvet, or corduroy are typical fall staples. You can get a fuzzy or chunky knit throw blanket for a sure fire way to make your couch more inviting in the cold weather. Corduroy or velvet throw pillows are another option to add welcoming texture to the furniture you already have.

Even placing small items with a new texture like a wooden decor bowl for a natural feel, can make a big difference in adding warmth to a room.

Turn down the big light!

You know how sometimes you get that eerie feeling sitting in the doctor’s office. Where all the overhead lights are so bright you’re convinced if you look hard enough you’d be able to see the individual atoms in your hands? Just me? Well, you definitely want to avoid that overbearing light situation in your home if your goal is to make your space feel warmer.

Having other forms of lighting such as candles, table side lamps, under lighting, and sconces, as opposed to harsh overhead lights can make a big difference when you’re trying to make a space give off the warm embrace of fall, and feel less like an exam room.

Of course there’s a million ways to customize this to suit your household needs. If you’re worried about open flames in your home or around children and pets, you can opt for tea lights to add a touch of flicker to decor items you may already have. Cloches with a touch of glow for the fall season are great in an entry or coffee table. You can also buy more realistic looking flameless candles that can sometimes even pass as the real thing.

Even if you’re not interested in purchasing any new lighting items for your home you can make what you already have feel warmer by switching out the bulbs for warmer tone or softer light bulbs. Bulbs marked as soft white or warm white are going to provide more of a warm glow versus a daylight bulb which gives off cool tone light. However, depending on the function of the room some soft white or warm white bulbs may be a little too dim.

Crackling ASMR

In the same vain of lighting, having sounds that give you a warm vibe are also great for making a full sensory experience in your home.

Having a fireplace (real or digital) can provide a nice crackling backdrop to almost any room in your home. They are also perfect for providing a wonderful low lighting warm glow that naturally increases the warmth of the space beyond the obvious temperature increase.

If you don’t have a fireplace in your space even just placing one on your television as a backdrop during a gathering or when you want the cozy fireplace feel is a great touch to add.

Smells of home

There are certain scents that people naturally associate with the fall season. Cloves, spices, cinnamon, apple, pumpkin, and citrus are some typical fan favorites. Incorporating these scents into your home is a sure way to increase a sense of the fall season and warmth.

Finding a way to bring scent into your space that works for your needs and home is key to incorporating a fragrance that makes sense for your lifestyle.

Unfortunately, certain candles, scents and essential oils aren’t safe for pets. It’s important to research whichever fall scent you’re trying to incorporate into your home to ensure that it’s safe for pets (and children if that’s a concern for you as well).

No matter your favorite fall scent you have a plethora of options for dispensing it into your home. Traditional candles, wax melts, simmer pots, wall plug-ins, room sprays, and oil diffusers are all options to fill your home with smells that remind you of fall.

This season my favorite scent method has been room sprays. I have a pet so I don’t feel comfortable burning candles, especially in my room. My favorite scent this season is Apple Pumpkin by Yankee Candle (not sponsored) although I’d like to be.

Another thing I’m loving this fall is mini cinnamon brooms. They tend to be very strong, so a small one is usually enough for one small to medium room; I purchased ones from Trader Joe’s (also not sponsored).

Final Tips

For my taste, having low lighting, maximalist decor filled spaces, and muted color tones creates the ultimate cozy space, so having too many bright colors can make a space feel more energizing and electric than warm and toned down for the fall season. As someone whose favorite color is blue with a bright blue painted bedroom, there are still ways to incorporate richer tones into your space that won’t throw off your present color scheme.

First you want to look at the dominant color in your space and determine which colors would be the best compliments. You don’t have to use the typical fall color palettes to have an autumn vibe, but adding some deeper tones of colors you like and compliment the colors you already have will bring in the fall vibe. However, you definitely don’t need to stay exclusive to complimentary colors, so just play around and see what you like! If you’re lost take a look at the color wheel to help you out:

Similar to the first tip for adding texture, you can add a fall color scheme by getting new pillow covers for throw pillows you already have; placing throw blankets in fall colors, and of course decor items.

To avoid excess clutter with adding seasonal decor switch out items you already have and replace them with the new item. Your space will feel less overwhelmed even if your go to style is maximalism. Something fun I like is placing out coffee table books that are for the fall season, such as scary stories, or ones that include fall photos or themes related to Fall/Halloween. Even if no one is going to read them it’s a nice touch for extra observant people in your space!

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No matter what your style is or how you choose to increase the warmth and/or fall vibes of your space, utilizing some of these tips should help make your home naturally feel more autumnal!

Leave a comment if you’re planning to try or have tried any of these tips, I’d love to hear what you think. Connect with me on social media, Pinterest is my fave right now!

Happy decorating!