It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fall, Y'all!

As summer's wildflowers fade away and golden rod and spider lilies start cropping up along roadsides, my thoughts turn to decorating for fall, and I just can't wait to replace my summer accessories with my fall decor. In fact, I began thinking about it back in August, and wrote a post called To Everything There is a Season ... Decorating Transitions.

I'd like to share with you a few of the changes I've made for fall using a combination of some old accessories and a few new ones.

This is the spring and summer wreath that hung on our porch door ...

And my fall wreath ...

"Summer" breakfast area ...

"Fall" breakfast area ...

Fall centerpiece for breakfast table ...

Summer fireplace ...

Fireplace featuring fall decor ...

The gourds are the ones featured in my recent post called Stained Gourds -- A Fall Decorating Project, and some of them are shown in my header above.

The following pictures are "before and after" vignettes showing more of the changes I made for fall ...

Our game table in the breakfast area ...

A chest in my living room ...
(summer is on the left, fall on the right) ...

And my summer and fall centerpieces
for our dining room table ...

Apples are always an easy and inexpensive way to add color to a room, and I enjoy these in my old scale on my kitchen island ...

I love sunflowers and "brown-eyed susans" in the fall, and added these bouquets to the baskets on my front doors ...

I've already seen some beautiful and unique fall decorating ideas on several blogs, and hope you will post yours if you haven't already. It's always interesting and fun to see how decorating styles and materials used in decorating differ in other areas of the country.

Sincerely,