Hello everyone! I'm so excited to welcome you today as we kick off the It's a Colorful Life Fall 2020 Home Tours! Jewel of
Jeweled Interiors and I are always so excited to organize this tour, we have an amazing group of color-loving bloggers lined up to share their Fall tours with you for the next few days. I know you'll soak up every bit! Today I'll be sharing my Entry and Living Room with you, all cozied up for Fall.
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Last year
I used super colorful Fall decorations to go along with the rest of my house, but this year I wanted to tone it down a bit (believe it or not!) and stick with a touch more neutral Fall decor. There's still plenty of color on everything else in my house, though! I'm not going to do a lot of talking today, just let you take your time and enjoy the photos. Drop a question in the comments if there's anything I can help you with!
I wanted to concentrate on using more natural elements this year. Heirloom pumpkins, pheasant feathers, and dried flowers were just the ticket for the look I wanted.
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Our home has a fairly open floor plan in the main living areas. The Entry opens right into our Living Room, so let's tour there next. As I said, plenty of color around the room so I kept the Fall decor more muted and simple this year. If you saw
my Summer tour, you might notice that I actually haven't switched out any of the pillows since then except for adding in the leopard. I liked this mix so much I thought it still worked beautifully for Fall.
So if you're familiar with my home, something new might have caught your eye! When a friend with a killer sense of style texts you and says "I just want to get rid of this coffee table", you drop what you're doing and drive a ways to go get it! I've kept an eye out for a glass and scalloped brass top table like this for years, and she knew I loved this style. It was
incredibly kind of her to offer it to me and I hope she knows I'll treasure it and take good care of it! (If you loved my
brass trunk coffee table don't worry... I do to... it got relocated to another room and isn't going anywhere!)
The trio of brass candlesticks are a recent estate sale purchase. An elderly couple in our church was paring down the contents of their home and I fell in love with these. They will always be a sweet reminder of the precious lady I bought them from... I'll never forget her welcoming us with a pan of brownies when we had just started at our current church 17 years ago (my husband is a minister).
I've been playing lots of musical furniture around here! You might also notice that I slightly rearranged the furniture in the living room by swapping the pink chairs and the love seat around. With the dimensions of our room the sofa always has to stay where it is, so this is about the only option I have for rearranging furniture in there. It's nice to do occasionally for a change!
If you've followed here for a looooong time, you might remember these
DIY fur ottomans I did about 6 years ago. They've been living in our Study/Bonus Room to prop our feet on in there, but I pulled them back in the Living Room to take the place of the green malachite stools for the season.
I've been trimming the limelight hydrangea blooms from my backyard as they begin to fade, they dry so beautifully!
On the mantel, I gathered some oak branches to put in a pair of blue and white vases, a recent Facebook Marketplace find. A few more pumpkins and some lanterns finish it off, along with a pheasant pelt that my neighbor gave me years ago when he heard I liked pheasant feathers. The colors in the feathers are just exquisite!
Even though I tried hard to stick with mostly natural, neutral Fall decorations, I couldn't resist popping in that little green gingham faux pumpkin that I painted last year.
Can you even decorate for Fall without including some leopard print in the mix? I think not. 😂
So that's it for today! In my next post I'll be sharing a little more of my Fall tour with you... the Dining Room, Breakfast Nook, and a few other shots here and there around the house. Be sure to
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If you're new here today or missed it previously, last week I shared
my Fall Front Porch along with a quick tutorial of how I made this mini-pumpkin wreath, hop over and check it out!
For the next stop on today's tour, head over to
Jeweled Interiors, I always soak in each and every space that Jewel shares. She's incredibly talented at design and DIY!! And you won't want to miss any of the other tours lined up for today and the rest of this week either, here's the schedule for what's coming up:
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