If you’re looking to celebrate the fall season without the clutter or to decorate your home for free, you’re in the right place. I am sharing easy and stylish ideas that elevate your space while keeping it clean and serene. From simple DIY pillows to elegant accents, these tips will help you embrace the cozy vibes of fall without overwhelming your home. I wanted to say goodbye to excess and hello to a refreshed, clutter-free environment that reflects the beauty of fall, so read on to see the fun things I did.
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Reusable Pillow Cases
Instead of investing in multiple seasonal pillows for your decor, consider opting for seasonal pillowcases. This simple switch saves you money and reduces storage space, allowing you to update your decor with the changing seasons easily. Just swap out the pillowcases to refresh your space without the clutter of numerous pillows. It’s an eco-friendly and stylish solution that keeps your home looking festive all year round! I got mine at Hobby Lobby, and my pillow is double-sided. So, I flip and cover it depending on the season.
Fall Scapes on your TV
Have you ever walked into a Hobby Lobby and seen those gorgeous paintings or frames you can do this inside your home with your TV and YouTube. It’s a fun way to create that upscale look in your home. Login to YouTube, and you’re going to search scenescapes. Scenescapes are beautiful artwork that loops on your screen to make it look like a masterpiece is being displayed. These scenescapes can last several hours, and you can find ones that change periodically throughout the time frame, but they are gorgeous. It adds a touch of elegance and fanciness to your home all for free. Depending on the type of TV that you have if you do another YouTube search you can find people that tell you how to download the apps for certain TVs or you can get these scene scapes that come on naturally or sometimes your TVs come with it when you’re not watching some decorative scenescape comes on.
Minimalist Soap Dispensers
Seasonal hand soap dispensers are a lot of fun. They come in many shapes and sizes however, they can add to clutter by needing to be stored somewhere and possibly forcing you to change the soap you’re using based on the pump it has. Try this tip: Instead, try using a basic soap dispenser that has no colors or is just plain white or clear.
Then, add some stickers. I found these stickers at Walmart for 97 cents; I put them all around the soap dispenser to give it just that seasonal flare. For my handy crafter people, this is a great vinyl project, so if you own a Cricut and you can make the Cricut stickers and have all of those techniques and skills, then this could be a fun way to upgrade your soap dispenser without spending the extra cash and without having to store mult multiple bins with multiple soap dispensers
Fall Simmer Pot
Another clutter-free way to decorate your home is to change up the fragrance by bringing nature in so in this case we are actually going to make a simmer pot. I placed the basic recipe down at the bottom. There are a lot of different simmer pots out there but the fun part of it is bringing in fruits and leaving them on your counter like apples. It decorates your home naturally. The simmer pot has benefits to it as well because it’ smells amazingly fragrant but you’ve get the essentials of what the fruits bring into the home. If you’ve never done a simmerpot before they sell these elegant glass simmer pots on Amazon but you can just use any other kind of boiling pot that you have and you’re just going to add your fruits and your seasonings to the boiling water. You want to make sure that you have enough water to cover all of the fruits and seasonings and then you’re just going to let it simmer at a low flame. It’s a must do especially when you have guest coming over.
Fall Simmer Pot Recipe
Ingredients:
- 4 cups water
- 1 sliced apple (any variety)
- 1 orange, sliced
- 1-2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- A handful of whole cloves or nutmeg (optional)
Instructions:
- In a medium pot, combine the water, sliced apple, orange, cinnamon sticks, and any additional spices.
- Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer over medium heat.
- Reduce the heat to low and let it simmer, adding more water as needed.
- Enjoy the lovely scent as it fills your home!
Feel free to experiment with different ingredients to create your perfect blend!
Reuseable door wreath with seasonal accents
Door wreaths are ackward to store and sure there are wreath storage bins they are bulky. A couple years ago I invested in the basic Amazon door wreath and turned it into an interchangable one. For each season I change out accent pieces that clip on the wreath. And I also change out the sign/saying in the middle.
For my fall one I found a hobby lobby fall sign and painted it to match my home. And I also have a letter that is painted to change the wreath based on the season.
Interchangeable door sign
If you are a fan of the welcome door signs and like to change them out for the season you may want to consider getting a interchangeable door sign. I wish I knew about these sooner about these interchangable signs. They have long welcome sign ones and smaller ones. But for each holiday you can change small decorative pieces. I have a few signs in my garage and the thought of just having one to save space is awesome. I haven’t invested in one yet but will in the future I think. My blue welcome sign recently gave up the ghost and I just am down to my Halloween one. But sure is a way to reduce the clutter.
Refresh your vases with seasonal flowers
The definition of clutter that I talk about are the things that no longer serve you or your family.
And sometimes its easier to eliminate things based on their purpose. Seasonal flowers are one of those things. In this case fake flowers but you can certainly do it with outdoor flowers too.
Inside my bathroom I had yellow tulips and they work for Spring and Summer but for fall removing the yellow tones down the look and adding some leaves makes them help create a relaxing atmosphere. Reminding us that fall is a time to slow down from the busy of long summer nights.
Turn your blankets into pumpkins
I’m a sucker for the decorative pillows inside the stores especially the pumpkin ones and the little ghost ones. I love them but I don’t love the clutter that they bring with them and having to store them and how much they cost. I found a fun way that you can turn an old blanket into a pumpkin. You start by folding it into itself like a square and then continue to fold it in again. You’re going to use twill or string or whatever you want but I actually got my from the Dollar Tree and just tie it over and over again just like a present. It works a lot easier if you have a second person to help you hold it into make a tighter pumpkin but it stillworks overall. Continue to crisscross the string overand over again until you get that pumpkin shape. Once you’ve achieve the shape that you want you can add a string stem just tie it right to the top. Now use your pumpkin to decorate your couches or your armchairs. It alsmost gives that Pottery Barn kind of like really high-end expensive look without the high-end cost. And you’re just using your own blankets which I think is phenomenal. You can even put it on your mantle. If you’ve got multiple blankies like we do in our house cuz we are a total blankie household you could have tons of pumpkins. Just leave a few to use on those chilly nights.
Cover your toilet paper rolls with fabric to make pumpkins magically
Did you know that you could make pumpkins out of your toilet paperrolls? I went to Walmart and I found these little pieces of fabric, they have them in different sizes and lengths but I just bought the $1.97 ones because they fit perfectly around toilet paper rolls. Take the fabric and place your toiletpaper in the middle of it. Then you fold the fabric sides into the middle of toliet paper roll. I then added string/crafter’s like rope from Dollar Tree to create a stem. I just placed it right in the middle you don’t even need any tools or glue or anything it can just be placed inside. You can add some more flare by adding some fall flowers or you can put leaves too. It’s a fun way to use your toilet paper rolls to make pumpkins around your house and it’s free at no cost to you except for the $1.37 that we spent at Walmart. And then you can reuse it every year and you can use the fabric for a different projecst if you’d like but you’ve got the perfect little pumpkin without out the $6 price tag.
Print nature photos from your phone
I love the colors of the fall season and I sometimes take pictures of the trees and bridges. So I came up with the idea to print the photos that I took off my iphone and placed them inside Dollar Tree photo frames. These frames can add a touch of fall to rooms you may not want to put a lot of decor in.
I love to use these displayable art frames for my kids artwork when they bring them home from school but I thought how neat of an idea would it be to print out a picture of nature that I took. I really love this idea and I actually think I’m going to do it for Christmas frames and add LED lights.
Keep it neutral table cloths
I love table runners and I have a few table cloths but if you lack space and you don’t want to have a huge linen storage to deal with. Consider opting for only having neutral linens for your table. I talk alot about having a clutter free linen closet in this post. Stick to neutrals and only change small accent center pieces on your dinning room table year season.
Use fall essential oils to create a cozy aroma in your home
Candles are pretty and I love the aubiance they bring inside a home. But seasonal scented candles mean you will have to store them, or are stuck with the same scent until it is gone. Consider scenting your home with essential oils instead. This means you can change the scent whenever you want. It’s less to store and you don’t have to worry about open flames especially if you have kids.
You can also put drops of oil on your flowers or on felt pads or even inside your toliet paper rolls. I lik to use cotton balls as well.
Bring the outdoors in with leaves in a frame
Bringing the outdoors in is a fun project that you can actually do with the kiddos. Use contactpaper or in this case I used self laminating sheets. Grab a whole bunch of fallen leaves from your garden or your yard. Place them inside the contact paper and seal. Cut it to size and place them inside picture frames. You can find very affordable frames at Dollar Tree or even at Walmart. I actually just utilize the one that I had in my bathroom to show you what it would look like. This is such an awesome family project too because you can go on nature trail walks and collect all different kinds of leaves from different trees.
I hope that you found all of these clutter-free decoration ideas helpful, thoughtful and something that you can actually utilize be sure to comment below your favorite and what you’ve done before so that we can share in the comments as a community. Happy Fall!!