NATURAL FALL DINING ROOM TOUR
Welcome to my Natural Fall Dining Room Tour. This year I used what I found in my yard and at our local farmstand to create soft and organic decor for StoneGable. Our hydrangea tree that drips its blooms over the railing of the back porch was especially beautiful this year. And ready for me to bring in its moppy heads to dry! Perfect inspiration for today’s fall dining room tour!
The dining room is decorated with natural fall elements and will change just a little as we go towards Thanksgiving. I love setting a base of pretty decor and making gentle changes to it as each the season at hand meanders along. Every room in my home evolves from season to season. Even if it is just a vase of flowers!
The Pee Gee hydrangeas gave me lots of inspiration. They really are exceptional! Don’t you love how some of the hydrangeas are tinged with pink? So choosing a pop of color for my neutral home was easy!
Did you know that all greens are supposed to work together? It is the only color that is giving this distinction. And no wonder, nature is filled with all hues and tints of gorgeous green! So I embraced that fact and added several greens to my fall dining room decor.
If the hydrangeas are the star of my fall decor then white pumpkins are the chorus! Lots and lots of white pumpkins working together creating fall ambiance on my tables and even a few chairs!
Oh, sigh! Fall hydrangeas and white pumpkins!
Here’s the natural fall dining room…
The big gray urn most often spends its time in the center of the concrete dining room table. Earlier this summer it was filled with sunflowers and now that fall is here hydrangeas take their place.
No water needed in the urn. The hydrangeas will dry out and stay as they are until Christmas.
Flanking the urn are pretty “bubble” candles in sparkly silver mercury glass. I collect mercury glass candlesticks. I just can’t get enough of them!
Little by little and year after year, I’ve collected pretty mercury glass candlesticks. Now, I have a nice collection! I found these new candles at At Home, a large home decor store that is new to our area.
I really never collect expensive home decor accents so I don’t need to make a big investment in them. But I like to collect items that I can use all year round and works with every season! Candlesticks fill that tall order very well. And they work so nicely with the fall decor!
Here in Lancaster County, we can find lots and lots of pumpkins in any color and shape. Really, there are pumpkin fields after pumpkin fields here!
So I’m liberally using them! Even on the bench in the dining room!
The squat round pumpkin on the bench is very fresh, maybe just picked this morning. How can I tell? Look at the stem. It is “juicy” and brown and not dried.
I cut the stems out of the pumpkins when they are spent and dry them out. And then put them in a zip-type plastic bag and put them in my underwear drawer. Yes, you read that right! But to know this little funny inside story. If you have been reading StoneGable for a while you will understand! If you know why I keep the pumpkin stems in my underwear drawer tell me in the comments! LOL!
Each new fall I pull off the stems of fake pumpkins I buy and glue real stems to them and really no one can tell they are fake any longer!
Look at these pretty curly stems!
On the dining room sidebar sits my gilded pumpkins! I made these earlier this fall and I am crazy about gilding! To see EASY GILDED PUMPKIN DIY go HERE.
This is my new favorite fall decor element. Although it is not organic it does add a touch of elegance and whimsy to my fall decor.
I used gold gilding on the stems of all the pumpkins and gold on the tall pumpkins and gold, silver and, copper to make the circles on the medium pumpkin. To continue the bit of bling I added sparkly acorns.
Using things that nature provides right outside our back doors, along our roadsides and at local farmstands, for me, is the best way to decorate for fall!
Hope you have found lots of fall inspiration and ideas you can use in your home!
Happy Fall!
Beautiful table, Yvonne! I have been experimenting with drying whole bouquets I pick up from the farmer’s market. I am amazed at how many flowers dry well and still hold their color and beauty. I’ve found dried flowers are especially great for rooms that get little to no light and cannot support real plants (like my hall bathroom with no windows and my guest room who’s window is shielded by pour back porch). What a great idea about saving those real pumpkin stems, too!
Your dining room is stunning! I love all the fall touches like the white pumpkins which add to the room’s loveliness.
Shelley
Thanks, Shelley!
Love the gold hoping I have time to try that,
My pumpkins from the fields are only lasting two weeks from all the rain, so sad!
Marian, see my post about making fresh pumpkins last longer:https://www.stonegableblog.com/8-tips-for-keeping-pumpkins-fresh/
Simply gorgeous hydrangea blooms! Mine got too much sun and turned brown before they could be used. 🙁
Hi Yvonne,
I love the look of the hydrangeas in your urn. Can you tell me how you anchor them into the urn so that they don’t shift as thy are drying? Do you use a frog? Clay? Foam? Thanks!
The stems are long. I first strip all the leaves off and starting on one side lay them all the way around the rim of the urn then I add a second layer and sorta fluff the up. I continue using this technique before I got to the center of the urn. Then I stood some hydrangeas upright to complete the hydrandea “dome”.
Where do you buy your artificial white pumpkins from? I could only find one one here and there. Also do you do anything to your natural pumpkins to keep them from rotting before Thanksgiving? That’s the reason I don’t use them.
I found some nice pumpkins at a good price at Target. They also had fabric ones in burlap.
I found some great faux white pumpkins on Amazon. Here is a post on how to keep real pumpkins fresh longer…https://www.stonegableblog.com/8-tips-for-keeping-pumpkins-fresh/
Yvonne, I love bringing in hydrangeas. I will be doing so today. You have the best ideas and love reading your blog. When will your master bedroom reveal be? I can’t wait!
Hydrangeas are one of my favorite flowers, they make quite a statement in your urn.
Sorry, it just doesn’t look like fall without orange pumpkins, LOL!!! Those hydrangeas are really pretty.
Yvonne, your dining room is gorgeous and serene. I, too, have a bouquet of fresh hydrangea on our table, as well as in the bathroom. So pretty. Have been hanging them when dry in order to save for future use. Excited for the holiday and seasonal fun blogs to come.
It has certainly been a great year for hydrangeas. My limelight are on the ground with the heavy blooms this summer. I have dried and arranged some for a big basket in my entryway. Looks so pretty. Still in the 80s here in the Carolinas. When oh when will fall arrive? Just set out some real pumpkins in the urns outside. Hope they survive the temps til Halloween. Will not carve till later. The faux pumpkins are wonderful and I don’t have to worry about them but somehow I still need to get a few real ones.
We are having a hot spell too! Later this week we will be in the 50’s. Now that’s my kind of weather!
Having listened to every single DTT podcast, I also keep my pumpkin stems in my drawers. LOL!
LOL! I think it is a DTT thing now!
Yvonne, this looks gorgeous!! I just bought hydrangeas like that today. I can’t believe you have them right out your back door!! I’ll also be drying mine… 🙂
I love the soft greens and white along with the metallic touches. Your dining room looks lovely and elegant.
Thanks, Lurlie!
Soft and organic décor for the fall is a wonderful idea and your choices of natural elements are exquisite. Hydrangeas and white pumpkins are the perfect mix! Always enjoy your tours!
Amazing way to decorate with little entry
Where did you get your big gray urn?
Hi Faye, I found this cheap but pretty urn at HomeGoods. I love that store. I often can find WOW factor accessories for a song.
Love your fiddle leaf fig!! Is it faux or real? If real what’s your tips on care
Hi Meg, the fiddle leaf fig is real. It was just a baby plant when I bought it. Now it’s so big!
Love stopping by for inspiration. Love the urn! It’s a secondary character in your blog! Happy Sunday! laura
Very pretty for fall! I am one who likes the pretty, tasteful type decor for seasonal decorating, just as you have done. I don’t like 20 scarecrows and a haybale in the living room and a loud look that shouts “It’s fall!!.” I think so lovely a look you have done, and it is very nice!
Hi Tracie, I love to decorate with organics. Thanks!
So jealous to your having such abundance of pumpkins in your area. They were so expensive here in the midwest last year and hard to find…especially anything white.
I have many hydrangeas in my yard but awaiting my hydrangea trees to take off and sprout me some flowers of the panicle shape. I will have lots of Annabelle ones though. That urn filled is just gorgeous! The perfect colors for a white with textured home. Love it!