How to Decorate Your Space for Fall & Halloween

Originally published by Daily Origin Editorial on 9/13/2020

How early is too early to start thinking about decorations for fall and Halloween? Are you feeling more of the Glinda the Good Witch vibe of traditional pumpkins, lighter colors, hay barrel, or The Wicked Witch of the East with bats, spiders, witches, and ghosts? What do you do when it comes to everyone’s favorite season? Decorating for fall can be a little tricky to pull off, but no matter the design style, there’s a way to layer fall decor in with Halloween decor. Here are some tips to accommodate decorating for both. 

Change fresh flowers over to dried flowers 

Summer is over and although you may hate it, take the remaining bits of summer into fall. This is an easy switch, remove fresh flowers from water and dry them out. Fall is all about the beauty of changing colors, so why not showcase this inside your house? 

“Dead or dried flowers could also help elevate Halloween decorating using a skull, a witches boot, or even an older lantern as a vase for flowers.”

Change candlestick colors

Remove white and cream candles and replace them with fall colors—another simple switch without breaking the bank and adding warm fall tones to your indoor decor.  Not feeling the warm tones vibe? Create a creepy candle look when it gets closer to Halloween using red candles (light) and drip over white candles. 

DIY Witches Broom 

Instead of the usual fall leaf colored wreath, decorate your door with a DIY witches broom. An easy way to save money by sticking with nature (and dead theme) pick up fallen twigs and sticks around the neighborhood—the rest of the supplies needed; glue and twine.

Choose to Decorate with Apples. 

Apples, the wicked stepchild of fall - but don’t overlook the many ways apples can contribute to your decorating. Here’s a tip, take a trip to go apple picking, make an apple pie with some, and then save the rest for an apple centerpiece, bobbing for apple decoration on Halloween night or make Bloody Carmel Apples (recipe here by Food Crush) both tasty and creepy.

Update your door decor by creating a layer of Fall + Halloween

Mix and match fall hot items, pumpkins, gourds, more twigs, and strategically placed Halloween items like a black cat, witch silhouette, spiders, and bats. Leaving the pumpkin carving until the week of Halloween and stretching out the pumpkins and gourds’ shelf life.