Easy autumn design ideas

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The month of October brings even more opportunities to re-style your home for the autumn season. Natural seasonal decorations are an easy and cost effective way to transform your home, while simple DIY and craft projects can be fun for the whole family. Of course if crafts and DIY don’t appeal, there’s also affordable home furnishings that can easily add some seasonal style to your home. Try some of these simple ideas and reinvigorate tired décor with subtle autumn touches.

Create a centrepiece

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The autumn season offers a huge variety of fruit and flowers that can make naturally sophisticated centrepieces. Beautiful wood, pine cones and twigs are easy to collect and find, making them a simple way of adding some rustic style to your centrepiece. Other foliage and seasonal flowers are a light and elegant touch to your overall décor; muted tones will ensure the bright red of some additional berries stand out to create a truly eye catching centrepiece.

Switch out cushions

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Instantly freshen up any room by switching out old or summer styled cushions for homey autumn inspired ones. Cushion covers with check and stripe designs, together with interesting textured fabric, will give a cosy lift to your décor. We recommend keeping to deep shades of your favourite autumn colours; burnt oranges make for a stylish country feel, while soft and smoky greys are a great modern twist on this classic style.

Incorporate some pumpkins

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Pumpkins are undoubtedly the fruit of the season, but these fun decoration pieces aren’t just for Halloween. Both outside and in this adaptable fruit can create a truly unique autumn feel that you’ll want to keep all year round. Miniature pumpkins make a great addition to centrepieces or mantle pieces, while larger ones can be decorated with additional paint and stencils. Use tape and acrylic paint in subtle hues to make stripy and minimalist designs for a thoroughly modern pumpkin display. For really creative types, why not go adorn your pumpkins with autumn leaves around the stem to create surprisingly elegant pumpkins.

Add a throw

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The colder weather is a great excuse to invest in some warm and comfy throws or blankets. Stashing a variety of throws around the home can help to inject some style into a room as well as being practical as winter draws nearer. With a huge range of fabrics to choose from it’s easy to freshen up your current décor and add an autumn twist. Fold a fur throw at the end of your bed or a soft knitted throw on a classic armchair. You can even give a worn looking sofa a refresh and transform the whole room by covering it with a stylish patterned throw.

Get creative with leaves

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Autumn leaves have long held a special place in the hearts of designers. The array of beautiful colours and shapes make these leaves the perfect finishing touch to any autumn inspired décor. For a fun activity the whole family can enjoy, use with trays of paint to make charming prints onto a surface of your choosing. You can also use leaves directly to create fun artwork or decorate old and tired furnishings such as picture frames. The possibilities really are endless, so get creative and start collecting.

If you’re still feeling creative, you can get even more autumn design ideas here.

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