88 Awesome DIY Fall Decor Ideas for the Home & Garden

We continue our collection of awesome DIY fall decor projects and ideas with some fun concepts that help bring the spirit of the season into your home and garden.

It’s really about the colors, the textures, and the sentiments of the decor you create and less about the intricacy of the designs. Leave that for Spring!

DIY Wood Slice Kitchen Owl

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Perfect for adding some DIY Fall decor to your kitchen, this cute kitchen owl is comprised of a slice of rustic wood, a fallen tree branch, some old cutlery (easily found at a local thrift show) and a variety of bottle lids and caps.

Indian Corn Fan

I love this rustic wall hanging made from dark and wonderful Indian Corn! 

White Pumpkin Coffee Table Centerpiece

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A rustic tray, some white dollar store pumpkins, a few galvanized pails, and some faux greenery combine to create this impressive display.

DIY Fall Burlap Wreath

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This simple but high-impact DIY fall wreath uses a 14″ straw form wreath, some burlap, and silk fall leaves to create a lovely accent to your front door.

Candy Corn Buttons DIY Fall Wall Art

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A handful of different sized buttons in white, yellow, and orange (either purchased that way or spray painted those colors), a piece of burlap and an 8×10 frame from the dollar store is all you need to create this wonderfully rustic DIY Fall wall art piece.

Well, maybe a glue gun & some mod podge as well. 🙂

Cut Fabric Leaves on a String

Some rustic fabric in traditional fall colors are cut out and then hung on a string to create a lovely fall display.  Perfect for decorating your windows for the fall!

DIY White Birch Coasters

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These rustic coasters get an elegant upgrade by adding some gold spray paint around the rims. A fun, easy, and functional piece of DIY Fall decor.

Grateful Thankful Blessed DIY Wood Sign

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Take a sheet of vinyl and carefully cut out the words and stick to the sheet of stained wood. Tape off the exterior edges to create a frame. Paint the entire board. Once dry, carefully peel off the vinyl to reveal the letters.

This one is a bit trickier for a DIY standpoint, but the results are lovely!

Pumpkins and Sunflowers Tabletop Display

Combine some small pumpkins and gourds, a few sunflowers (silk will do), some leaves and some dollar store pumpkin decorations into a lovely display.

DIY Stamped Burlap Placemats

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Such a fun and easy project. All you need is some burlap, a set of foam alphabet stamps and some paint to create these personalized and rustic fall placemats. This technique could also be used to create your own napkins, tablecloth, and more.

Fall Bicycle Flower Basket

When the time comes to retire your bicycle for the season, throw a wicker basket on the front with some fall flowers for an attractive display.

DIY Fall Letters Door Hangers

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If you use pre-cut MDF letters, this DIY Fall decor project is so fast and easy. The rest of theproject is the fun part of decorating the letters with colored and patterned tissue paper and then hanging them with the wide ribbon of your choice.

Water Pitcher Fall Flower Arrangement

A vintage water pitcher makes a lovely base for this beautiful fall floral arrangement. Accent with some foliage and a few decorative gourds to complete the look.

DIY White Pumpkin Vase

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Transform a dollar store plastic pumpkin into a wonderful floral centerpiece for your table.

Gourd Cornucopia

A mix of colorful gourds, some candles, and a cornucopia shaped basket accented by some fallen leaves and flowers help create this lovely fall display.

DIY Pumpkin Tower Planter

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Turn inexpensive pumpkin trick or treat buckets into a delightful DIY fall planter.

Decorative Wood Pile House

Storing all your chopped wood for the winter?  Take your wood storage to the next level with something like this decorative wood pile.   All you need is a few wood frames for the “windows” and the “door” and some fabric to make little curtains.  Accent the windows with these rustic DIY window boxes, and add some flowers and pumpkins to make your wood pile house look like a home.

DIY Terra Cotta Mosaic Pumpkin

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A great way to use some broken clay or terra cotta pots. Simply clue the pieces to a dollar store foam pumpkin to create a wonderful fall display piece.

Paperclip Leaves DIY Fall Decor

So quick and easy, all you need is a few fallen leaves, some paperclips and something to clip them onto (a branch will do quite nicely) and you can create your own lovely and natural DIY fall decor.

DIY Sunflower Pomanders

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The secret to this fun and easy DIY Fall decor project is wiffle balls. Yup, you read that right… wiffle balls.

DIY LED Fall Garden Light

All you need are some clear class locking canisters from the dollar set and a string of copper wire LED string lights to create your very own personalized fall garden light.

DIY Mason Jar Owl

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These glittery owls are as much fun to make as they are to display! You’ll need some mason jars, glitter spray of your choice, metal leaves and other decorative buttons or embellishments, and some marbles and copper wire for the eyes.

Easy Punched Tin Can Candle Holders

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A fun and easy Fall DIY craft project that turns old tin cans into a lovely and meaningful set of votive candle holders.

Rustic Stitched Hearts

Show your love of fall with these quaint and delightfully rustic stitched hearts.  You’ll need some fabric, twine, brown wool, and some heart buttons from the dollar store.

DIY Dollar Store Pumpkin Door Hangers

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Pain and decorate some dollar store foam pumpkins that have been cut in half to create these fun and easy DIY Fall door hangers.

Wrapped Cinnamon Sticks and Cranberries on a Rustic Plate

This super-simple DIY fall decor project takes a bunch of cinnamon sticks, a few twigs of fall berries and displays them on a rust wicker plate. Best part is that this can be updated to be more Christmas focused by simply changing out the ribbons and/or the plate.

Book Page Pumpkin

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You can often purchase damaged books from the library for next-to-nothing, which lets you create these delightful DIY fall decor projects AND save books from ending up in the local landfill. It’s a win-win!

DIY Leaf Stamped Dinner Napkins

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Use a leaf stamping technique to create a set of one-of-a-kind napkins (or dinner cloth) that you can use to serve your guests all season long!

Show Off Your Preserves as Decor

People often underestimate the decorative value of preserves.  The colors are always so rich and delicious.  And all you need is some rustic paper and twine or sisal rope to cover the lids.

Best part is that these wonderful decorations become fantastic edibles once the season is over!

Rustic Wood Pumpkins & DIY Barn Wood Shutters

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This fall fireplace mantel is so inviting. The wreath. The reclaimed window. The DIY bar doors. The DIY wood pumpkin planters. It’s all so cozy and wonderful!

White Pumpkin Thanksgiving Table Setting

Some dollar store pumpkins are painted with white chalk paint to elevate and add a fall theme to this Thanksgiving table setting.  So simple yet so elegant!

There is something lovely about celebrating the change of seasons as Summer fades away into Autumn. These DIY Fall decor projects and ideas help bring the warm colors and textures of autumn into your home and garden displays.

One of my favorite things to do in the fall is take a drive through the fall colors. There’s something beautiful about cresting a hill and seeing the fall colors for miles and miles and miles.

This season always reminds me of the quote by Stanley Horowitz.

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”

– Stanley Horowitz