As the seasons change, it’s natural to want to bring a bit of the festive feeling indoors. Rather than spending copious amounts of money on over-priced seasonal decorations, the design experts at Alair Homes Winnipeg recommend bringing the outdoors in using décor you have lying around the yard. It’s simple, it’s creative, and it’s enough to inspire more than one Instagram-worthy photo of your creative DIY project. These simple suggestions help you see how you can use what you already have to bring a bit of the fall and winter seasons into your home using what you already have.
Fall Leaves
As the leaves change for fall and begin to color the sky with vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows, take advantage of that. Head out into the yard to collect a few branches still bursting with color and place them in a few strategically placed vases around your home. One spectacular idea is placing a few branches in umbrella stands on either side of the front door to create a welcoming entryway guests won’t soon forget.
Pinecone Pails
The yard is filled with pinecones this time of year, and the possibilities are endless. Get the kids out into the yard to collect as many as possible, and get to work. You can take a simple metal pail and fill it with pinecones placed by the fireplace to bring a little of the outdoors in. Another simple idea is to spray paint these lovely pinecones a lovely shade of silver or gold and place them in decorative bowls or vases to use as centerpieces along the table runner.
If you do bring pinecones into the house, be sure to kill the bugs living in them first. All you need to do is stick them on a foil-lined cookie sheet in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. Following that, allow the pinecones to sit for a day to cool off and dry to kill any bugs living in them. This also dries any sap in the cones that might make a mess in your home.
Decorative Lights
Those big, gorgeous trees are shedding leaves rapidly, and they’re in need of a trim. The next time you cut down a sizable branch with several arms, bring it inside. Wrap it with white Christmas lights and hang it on a large wall. The twinkling lights and the natural texture of the branch create an almost ethereal feeling in your home. All it cost you was the cost of a box of white Christmas lights.
Photograph the Beauty of the Seasons
It’s the simplest things that make the biggest impact in so many instances. When the leaves change and the weather becomes crisp, head outside at twilight with your camera to capture the beauty of the fall sunset, the gorgeous sunrise, or the beauty of the fog in the morning. Print those photos on a canvas or as a sizable print, and frame them around the house. There’s not a simpler way to bring the beauty of fall into the house.
Decorating with nature during fall and winter has never been easier, and your home never chicer. Your guests will be blown away to see how you took something that seemed dead and useless and turned it into a work of art, and your wallet won’t mind the break.