Fall Door Decor

I’m ready… fall decorating is underway at our house! Fall is one of my favorite seasons for home decor; it feels so cozy and warm, don’t you think? My all seasons wreath had a good run through the last year, transforming from fall, to Christmas, to Valentine’s Day to Easter. I still love it, but I was inspired to mix it up a little this season when I saw this fun little number at Joann last week. Acorns speak fall to me! The way it was in the store had a little more embellishment on it than I wanted; it hides too much of the rustic grapevine feel that I love so much about it. Soooo….

I decided to strip it down and start from scratch!

I found these lovely silk flowers with a burlap detail at Dollar Tree, believe it or not! The texture and colors felt really fall-like to me. I snipped the heads of the flowers off just below the base so I could arrange them on the wreath.

You may have noticed before that I like a letter on my wreaths. 😉 I found this little wood N at Michael’s for just 99 cents and gave it a few coats of gold metallic paint to fall-ify it.

I tied a long loop bow with some raffia and glued it to the back of the N to “hang” it on the acorn.

I had several assorted branches and fall floral that I’ve accumulated over the years, so I clipped some pieces from them and just started to experiment with placing them on the acorn until I found a layout I liked.

Once I had everything arranged where I wanted it, I secured the loose pieces to the acorn with a glue gun, and for further security used twist-ties to secure the flowers to the back by weaving the ties through the vine.

Here’s the final makeover…

I found some beautiful gold metallic wired ribbon at Old Time Pottery to make my wreath hanger (see tutorial here).

I underestimated the amount of ribbon I needed to be able to have excess ribbon to cascade down the door. This mistake inspired me to decorate the whole back of the door! I spent all of this time decorating the wreath for the front door, which I never even see, so I figured I should decorate the back of the door too so that I can enjoy it! I added 2 more pieces of ribbon to create staggered length ribbon to decorate the back of the door.