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Fall is in the air in Texas. On cue for October, we have had buckets of rain (October is our rainiest month) and are headed to cooler temperatures with highs in the 50s later this week.
As a new season arrives, I feel the urge to decorate to match the season. Do you? And, the fastest, easiest way to decorate for a season, including Fall, is to add fresh flowers. Nothing can update my French-inspired living room for a new season better than flowers and plants.
Even if nothing else is added to a room, fresh flowers and plants instantly set the season by using ones appearing in gardens at that time of year.
Voilà, instant fresh seasonal decor.
To give my living room a little extra zing this Fall, I used ruffled ornamental kale in a large French-style urn instead of using Fall's usual starring flower, chrysanthemums, as a centerpiece.
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Part of the joy of decorating is using something new or adding a twist to something old. Introducing a flair that makes the arrangement your own creates your home like no one else's.
The ruffled kale is the little twist that makes bedding a white pumpkin in an urn fresh and unexpected. Ideas for other bedding bases for a pumpkin are boxwood wreaths, grapevine wreaths, white baby's breath, and wild angel vine.
Why did I choose ruffled ornamental kale for decorating the living room this Fall?
As much as I love white, I also love periwinkle blue which is the one unifying color throughout my entire house. When it comes time to decorate for any season I always look for colors that go with my everyday look, blue and white.
For this Fall, I used the colors in this needlepoint pillow as my inspiration. The purple and green of ornamental kale are predominant colors in the pillow.
The large French-style urn with pumpkin and kale, a white chrysanthemum, and a large purple ornamental kale are the only new things added to my French-inspired living room, but are all that is needed to add Fall decor.
A tip for creating beautiful decor on a budget
is to use the same items in multiple places
over a decorating season.
❶ The large white pumpkin nestled in small ruffled ornamental kale bedding plants is now on the concrete bench in the entry garden leading to the front door.
❷ The ruffled bedding plants now fill a large low container on the front porch where they will continue to grow during the winter.
❸ The large purple kale was in the kitchen on the shelf behind the sink before coming to the living room for a few days. Now it is outside on the front steps.
❹ The white chrysanthemum is in a French urn beside the concrete bench in the entry garden where it will remain fresh for a longer period this Fall.
See beautiful Fall display tips for more photos of Fall arrangements from years past and with ideas for how to create them. I love decorating and sharing details with my readers for how to recreate similar arrangements in your own homes.
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Thanks for visiting my French-inspired Fall living room.
