Decorating For Fall 🍂 Cozy Home Refresh

I don't know what it is about fall, but it always feels like such a good time of year to reset. The cooler temperatures, getting back into routines, making the house feel all warm and cozy inside like a big hug. I'm just ready for this season. I'm ready to say goodbye to summer and hello to autumn. And so I'm so glad that you're here to join me today. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and let's get decorating. Back to school season is finally here in the Fritz house. My kids went back last week and I was quickly reminded just how expensive it is to pack lunches for three kids, especially because I want to make sure that I'm packing foods with really good ingredients. And that's why Shopping Thrive Market has been so amazing for our family and I love to use them every month just to stock up on all of my kids' favorite snacks for both at home and school, but also for pantry staples in our house. 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So if you want to check out Thrive Market, you can use my link. It'll be down in the description below at thrivemarket.com to get $20 off your first three orders plus a free gift. So it's a great deal. You definitely want to check that out and thanks again Thrive Market for sponsoring today's video. Hey friend, welcome back to the house. I'm so glad to have you here this morning. It's one of my favorite days of the year. It's fall decorating day. We're in the middle of September. The fall season is here. It's starting to get that feel outside and so I want to bring it inside my home. I did rent the TJ Maxx yesterday. We have a brand new TJ Maxx where I live and I got a couple of things. I'm really excited. I was not planning on buying but you know that's how it goes. And then this morning I went out and I got some pumpkins and a couple of mums and that's truly when it starts to feel like okay, it's fall. But let me share what I picked up from TJ Maxx. Starting out, I got this beautiful wheat bundle. You can see this is what it looks like and it just has this brown satin ribbon which I thought was so so pretty. I love to decorate with browns in the fall months and I just thought it was again a really pretty organic piece to add to my fall decor collection. So I think we're going to put this um maybe up on my mantel or maybe on the hutch behind me. We'll see. The other thing I wanted to look for since I didn't want to go out and buy like a ton of decor per se. I just wanted a couple little things to inspire me was I wanted to bring some fall scents into my home and I looked through the candle section at TJ Maxx and I ended up picking up this really cute sort of gingham prince candle in the scent pistachio pumpkin. The lid is really cute. It smells so good. It's actually really calm but still has kind of that spicy fall fragrance. I think this would be perfect for in the kitchen but we'll see and then I also picked up another gingham find this vanilla fig and honey hand wash. I thought this was so beautiful in the amber bottle. I think I'm just going to put this next to my kitchen sink for the autumn months just to use as hand soap and then the last thing I got isn't really fall decor but I'm going to use it. It is this marble and glass cake stand. I love these little cake stands that you can find at TJ Maxx or home goods. I love to use them for candle stands so I will probably use it with this candle and put it somewhere around the house. So aside from that the only other new items I have are all the pumpkins you'll see behind me. I have a bunch of these like I said I got these for $0.69 a piece and in this shape I think they were a dollar a piece at my local garden center and I'm just going to sprinkle them throughout the house. We'll just kind of play around with it. I actually think I want to use these on my here. I've got sort of a shelf on the top of my head vent and I think that would be really sweet but we'll see if they fit. I haven't tried it yet but yeah that's kind of all the new stuff we have to play with. I'm also going to pull out my fall totes and we will just kind of play with decor this morning so if you're excited to decorate for fall with me and just get all the cozy feels make sure you keep on watching. I made this hydrangea wreath last season and I forgot that I saved it. I just pulled it out of my totes and it needs some hairspray. I think some of these petals might you know start to fall a little but it's still really beautiful so I'm going to hang this on my head vent first and then we'll try to play with some pumpkins. When it comes to fall decorating you'll hear me talk a lot about bringing the outdoors in and while you can do that with decor you buy at a store you can also do that with real items from outside that don't cost a lot of money like giant hydrangeas in this wreath or real pumpkins from a local farm stand. You can go outside and clip branches or collect leaves. I love fall decor because you really can just kind of let God decorate and I think that's so beautiful but of course I love you know decor you buy from the store too like these stems I got a few years ago. They're some of my favorites. I use them year after year and sometimes it's worth investing in pieces like that too but nothing says fall decor like good smells. When your entire house just smells like that perfect pumpkin candle you walk inside it just feels like a big hug. I love that so much. Another great way to make your home feel cozy for fall is to add a bunch of twinkly lights, ambient lighting, lamp lighting. You just want to create that cozy atmosphere in your home. This light up pumpkin is from Hobby Lobby but I know it's also available on Amazon and it's just the perfect little glow here in the kitchen in the early morning when I'm making my coffee or at nighttime before bed. When I was first designing this house we built it back in 2024. Something I longed for was a fireplace in the kitchen. I pictured fall evenings baking pumpkin bread and having a cozy fire. I pictured so many memories here in this sitting area drinking cups of coffee with Caleb and just seeing it come to life over the years has been such a dream come true and I love this space and I love to decorate it for the seasons. I think just adding these simple pumpkins and I ended up putting my wheat bouquet on the side table and I think it all just kind of came together but I love this little space. It's definitely my favorite pocket of the house. I have this little wreath that we made together in one of my last homemaking videos. I just used some old floral picks I had. They're like years old. They're either from Hobby Lobby or Michael's or something like that. I don't even know but I had this on the hood vent originally and then decided it was too small. I like the hydrangea one better there so I'm gonna stick this one I think on the I recently saw a post from Better Homes and Gardens on Instagram that said that secretary desks are having a moment in interior design and it gave some tips on how to find one and I found mine on Facebook Marketplace like four or five years ago now and I have truly loved it. It feels so timeless in my home. It feels collected and I love that you can see it from every angle in our house whether you're in the kitchen or the living room and it's just a really fun piece to decorate for the seasons. Okay, it's a little while later now and I finished in here and just wanted to share how everything turned out today. Like I mentioned at the beginning of this video, you know, I didn't have a ton of stuff I was working with. I just kind of wanted to sprinkle in fall and start slowly but let's take a look around. I added this in one of my last videos. I love these faux hydrangeas. They are so pretty. They'll focus. There we go. They're from a floral and I just stuck them in this thrifted bucket that I got last year and I love this for a centerpiece. We've got Holly over there and then I really love the way that the hutch turned out. I love the green pumpkins up above and then down below. This color pumpkin is pretty much always the inspiration behind my color palette every season. I think the green is just so pretty and I love the way the little gingham candle turned out with the kickstand there. It's really simple but I think it's pretty and I think the wreath adds a lot of texture too. I've shown you guys that space already but coming in here this is what we decorated. I love this little hearth area. I think it's my favorite from today and we really didn't do like a ton. I added these plaid pillows. I think they're so pretty. I actually found these at TJ Maxx. I just forgot to share them at the beginning of the video. They are a part of my haul from yesterday. Love the blues and the browns as well as our little wreath arrangement there on the side table and then on the mantle I have a large pumpkin down there. There we go and then I just stuck some more pumpkins up above and this is a wire vine plant that I've been growing all summer. I think it's so pretty. So while it's still alive it's gonna live up there. Here's another look at the hearth from this side and then looking into the living room. We did play around with the secretary today so I thought I'd share that. I have a cozy fall candle going and I do have kids playing downstairs so sorry if you can hear them but on the secretary I just wanted to share really quick in this planter I just stuck two different stems. This one is really inexpensive. It's just from Hobby Lobby and then this one same thing very affordable from Walmart and I just blended them and I think the mustards and the greens look so pretty together along with another little white pumpkin. And then over here we've got the kitchen which I think is my favorite. I already said the hearth was my favorite didn't I but I love this. I just made a couple of swaps and I feel like it instantly feels cozier and more fall-like. First up on the vignette I swapped out a green plant for these orange stems. I love these. I got them at a boutique a couple years ago. I don't have a link for them but they're so pretty. They're my favorite. Then I've got a real pumpkin and then on this side we've got, bless you Hallie, I got a fall candle going which smells divine along with our amber glass hand soap bottle which I think adds a really just deep rich fall tone to the kitchen. And then my favorite addition is up above not only the hydrangea wreath but all the tiny pumpkins that fit on the ledge. I think that looks super cute. And then last but not least we added this little light up pumpkin which you know you can't really see right now but in the evening time it is so cozy. This I got at Hobby Lobby. And then everything else is just kind of my everyday decor that doesn't really change much. Okay it's a little bit later so I apologize for the lighting but I've been playing with decor in a couple other spaces and I just wanted to share really quick. Starting out here in my mud room I just wanted to keep things really simple but I made a couple swaps and I think it looks really sweet. First up I swapped my summer florals for more of these orange stems. I love to just have this little basket here. It's a great way to add texture and color and I love that pop of orange against the white shiplap. And then I thought that this orange thankful pillow matched and just kind of worked together. I got that pillow at Lowe's like several years ago. It's old. But I also stuck a couple of the real pumpkins on the windowsill and I think that looks really really sweet. And then the other thing I recently added in here I can't remember if I talked about this in my last video or not but I bought these adhesive felt pads. They just stick right to any surface and it's been a great way to organize papers for school this year. We also have our chore chart up there and then I've got this little thrifted basket for the kids socks so they can just put on socks and go out the door in the morning. Our shoes live in the garage but anyway I thought I'd just share that space. The lighting in here is so pretty right now so I just wanted to share. I know I shared this space already but I also made just a couple of little tweaks in my entry that I thought I would share. Nothing crazy. So I've got a pumpkin on the table. That's all I really added. I do have a fall candle burning and then on the hall tree I just stuck my topiaries and a pumpkin. So I could play around with this some more just for today. That's kind of good enough. But I'd also just share in the bathroom I recently re-added these art pieces that I thrifted. I thought they're so pretty for fall. I love that painting and I love the cow too. So sweet. And then I'm not done with the porch yet. Still need some work but I just added a fall wreath to my front door and then I do have some mums here and these are white. So starting to feel like fall around here. Okay friends well this little nugget is ready to take another nap. So I think we're gonna call it a day and that's gonna be the extent of our decorating today. Real life over here we're just going slow taking our time and enjoying the process. But I feel like we really did make quite a few spaces cozier today and that was really just the goal. I feel like when you walk in my house now it looks like fall and that makes my heart really happy. So I hope you enjoyed today's video. I hope that it gave you some decorating ideas and that it was just a reminder that less is sometimes more when it comes to seasonal decor and I'm really thankful for you. Thanks for watching and I hope you're having a beautiful fall wherever you are. I'll see you really soon in the next one. Bye!