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A Touch Of Fall Home Tour

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I am so excited to show you my fall home tour this year! I mean, me and fall are best buddies.

We go together like apple cider and hay rides.

Indian corn and cornstalks.

Pumpkins and mums.

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Well, come on in. Don’t be shy. No need to take your shoes off, we’re pretty casual around here.

Fall front porch decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

(More fall porch decor can be found on my Fall On The Porch post

This entryway table is a fun place to put seasonal decor.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Today it holds a vintage funeral basket filled with faux fall flowers. Some people call it a “florist basket” and if it makes you feel better, go right ahead. But to me they are funeral baskets!

One corner of the entryway holds part of my picnic basket collection. Yogie Bear loves my house!

I topped the baskets with my wooden toy barn that I showed you in my Dead People’s Stuff post. (Are you getting the idea that I like fun titles?)

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Going straight through the entryway is the living room.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

If you look closely on the right hand side of the photo, you can see Sheba sleeping on the couch. With two dogs, it was practically impossible for me to take photos without someone’s nose or butt in the shot.

The yellow spindly legged table beside the well loved leather chair is one of my favorite auction finds.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

As a matter of fact, if you are new here, you must know that the majority of the stuff in my house was found at thrift stores, estate sales and yard sales. I love a vintage vibe to my house and a cheap vintage vibe is even better.

I would love, love, love to have a real mantel to decorate, but, alas, we have a wood stove.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

So when it’s not in use, I pretend that it is a 200 year old mantel with ornate carvings.

All the stuff on top will have to go somewhere else in the next few weeks when we start firing this baby up.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Turning to the right, you will find the sofa and the lovely return air vent located so strategically above the sofa.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

For years, I did nothing to this wall at all. That darn vent was stealing my mojo.

And then one day I had just had enough and decided to show the vent who was boss. If you are just going to sit there all ugly like that, then I’ll just make you blend in. Hah!

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

To the right of that is the wall that leads back in to the entryway.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

To the right of the entryway, (are you getting dizzy yet?) is the entryway into the kitchen area and the steps leading down to the lower level (aka basement).

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Wow, my voice is getting hoarse from all this talking, so I think I’ll let the kitchen photos speak for themselves, while I go get some OJ.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com
Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

The orange juice did the trick, now on to the dining room. AKA the room that gets used twice a year.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

I wanted to do something other than orange and brown fall decor in here, since the rest of the house is filled with those colors. So I went with hydrangea, feathers and light neutral colors.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

The centerpiece was made by taking three thrift store footed silver platters and stacking them on top of each other and then just wedging some fresh-off-the-bush Limelight hydrangea between the platters.

Some feathers from Hobby Lobby were thrown in for good measure.

The cabinet is my grandmother’s and probably my most cherished possession. Of course, after my son. And my husband.

But they’re not actually “possessions”, so yes, it’s my most cherished possession!

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Thrifted soup tureens, hedge apples and baby boo pumpkins make for an understated fall decor theme.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

I could make up something fallish about the china dogs, but they are always there. I have a weird fascination/love affair with china dogs.

The top shelf has another tureen, this time with dried hydrangea in it.

Fall home decor with a vintage flair @ houseofhawthornes.com

Oh, I almost forgot about my new baby. How cool is my green portable Royal typewriter.

Vintage Royal portable typewriter @ houseofhawthornes.com

I bought that for myself for my birthday and it was an absolute steal at a antique mall. In my A New Royal In The House post she had her own photo shoot and I went on and on about her. I set her up in the dining room, because she goes so well with the green of the Limelight hydrangea.

Buying Guide:

I thought it might helpful if I gave you some guidance in finding some of the pieces I have decorated my home with. Now, most of the items I have were bought at thrift stores and yard sales, so that might not be too helpful (unless you want to go to that cute little red house over there on Main Street the next time she has a sale), but I did try to find sources that carry either authentically vintage items or pretty realistic reproduction items:

(This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. You can read my full disclosure policy here.)

In The Living Room:
Deer Head (resin replica) / Funeral Basket / Vintage Redmon Picnic Baskets / California Job Case (aka letterpress printer’s drawer) / Vintage Typewriter / Super cute Vintage Typewriter Key Pillow / Honest To Goodness Vintage Suitcases / Vintage Fan or Reproduction Vintage Fan

In The Kitchen:
Chippy Old Scale

In the Dining Room:
China Dogs / Ironstone Soup Tureen

I hope you enjoyed my fall home tour!

A fall home tour with a vintage flair!


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  5. Your décor is so fall without being so blatantly in your face orange & brown fall. You get what I mean, right?

    Love the green typewriter. Can’t wait to see her own post.

    Have a great week!

    Erica

  10. Thanks for the home tour! Your writing makes me laugh and I love the catchy titles. This is a great time of year for dried hydrangeas and who says pumpkins have to be orange? Love the vintage touches around your home.

  20. Thank you so much for your colorful fall home tour, complete with your humorous commentary! I like and collect many of the same things as you do, so it’s a good thing we don’t attend the same sales. I’m stronger than I look. hehe Your grandmother’s china cabinet is such a wonderful family heirloom and I love the way you’ve displayed your vintage treasures inside. And that typewriter!! Woo hoo!

    Your porch is so welcoming, you’ve inspired me to go on my annual hunt for cornstalks. Hmmm, I wonder if my daughter would notice that they’ve been removed from her garden?

  21. Hi Pam! I am headed over to your place for some hot cider so we can sit by that stove and blog together 🙂

    What a lovely, cozy home. You did a fabulous job decorating!

  22. Everything looks amazing! Love all of your vintage touches mixed in with the fall goodies. The thermoses, toolbox, and typewriter…I could just waltz in and bring those home. 🙂

  24. Wow, wow. I love all of your touches. Your porch is a knockout. So bright and welcoming. I love how you have so many small vignettes and special touches scattered throughout your home. Thanks for being part of the tour. xxoo

  28. Ringing applause from where I sit to blog. You know I love seeing all this stuff over again. My grandma and my great-grandma kept Boston ferns on that spindly legged table. Out on the porch in the summer, by a sunny window in the winer.

  29. I just love what your did with your home for fall. Gorgeous. Loved the olive bucket. I just ordered one for our new home from Décor Steals. Can’t wait to receive it. I am a new follower and would love for to pop over to Cloches and Lavender and read a bit and follow along!!!

    Cynthia

  31. Oh goodness Pam, it’s full of fall goodness. The shot of the breakfast table is stunning. The corner cupboard is beautiful too. I see how much you have been fluffing for this tour-I would be tired. Love the stacked silver with feathers and hydrangeas. I cannot get over the price of feathers around here. xo, olive

  33. Hi Pam,
    Loved your tour and seeing more of your fabulous collections! No wonder your grandmother’s corner cabinet is your most treasured possession. It is incredible and it is styled so beautifully. I especially love the image of the hydrangeas in the soup tureen, and I’d leave those little china dogs in there all year, too! Love them!

  35. I enjoyed the home tour of your fall decor. Love the stacked baskets and all the touches of green in your kitchen. Especially your vintage green typewriter!

  37. It looks great, Pam! I think you have my stove from my other house that I loved and then I had to move and have a bad stove. Other than sheer jealousy about the stove, I love your green typewriter. Mine is old-timey black.

  39. Everything looks so lovely — warm, inviting, fun & everything Fall! I am literally drooling over that turquoise buffet — love that!

  43. Everything looks really pretty all decked out for Fall. I must say, though, that my favorite thing may be those canisters. Those are wonderful!

    You know, my dogs never take their shoes off when they come in, either. Or even stop to wipe their feet!

  45. It’s a good thing that this was a virtual tour because if I’d been there in person, you might have noticed a few things missing after I left.

    I love the comfort and warmth of your home!

    My favorite vignette with the leather chair with its postcard pillow and spindle leg table and the wood burner in the background…. coziness at it’s best!

  47. Your home looks so cozy and festive looking. You did an amazing job getting it all ready for us to come traipsing through. I love, love, love all the wonderful vintage items you have so expertly decorated with. I’m like, I want that, and that, and that …LOL!

  48. Very creative Pam! I love your fall organic touches mixed in with your everyday things. Masterfully done! LOVE the little red truck carrying a load of fall pinecones! Doesn’t silver and hydrangeas go so well together? Beautiful!

  50. Beautiful job, Pam! I’m just getting around to everyone! I love your comment about the dogs. I have the same problem but it could be a cat or a dog! Photo bombers!

    I love your fall touches and I adore you grandmother’s cabinet. What a precious heirloom. I love all your vintage accessories, too. Great job! Thanks for joining us!

  52. Pam- I love your home-it is warm and so you! I can see all those sweet collections that you kind of haul out one by one when you find them. Great old vintage canister set in the kitchen. We had one of those stoves in one of our places, too. I loved the heat and hated that I didn’t have a mantle to decorate, too.

    Thanks for the tour, Pam. Now I can picture you sitting in your blogging chair when you post- xo Diana

  54. Absolutely charming!!! I love your ideas and decorating!!
    I wanted to share an idea we are using with some success….RE: The AIR vent :^)
    I took an old shutter that was approximately the same size as the vent cover…removed 3 of the vanes and opened the rest. I hung it sideways over the vent and made it part of a collage similar to yours. It works quite well and looks a lot better than the metal vent marring the wall.
    HTH, and blessings to you,
    J

  55. Your home is charming and I love all of your vintage finds. The picnic baskets especially caught my eye.

    Re the air vent problem, I love the above suggestion, but in the meantime, one thing we have done is remove the cover and spray paint behind it – either black to make it all disappear or the same color as your wall. It makes the dreaded vent blend in better. I feel your pain on this and really like your attitude to just go with it. Who designs these houses anyway:-)

  56. Thanks for the tour! Your home is so festive and I love how you staged your cabinet and love that darling turquoise typewriter! Glad I found you through the tour and All Things Home! ~Delores

  57. Pam, your pretty home definitely says Fall! Thanks so much for the tour. I loved your dried hydrangeas and that little crow at the front door. He was sop cute!!

  59. Okay Pam, So I saw your house tour when you first posted it, but I am finally getting around to telling you “WOW! Great tour. Beautiful home! Thanks for sharing!” — and also, just read your most recent post — and I hope you’re feeling better. I’m just getting over some head-cold crud, so I feel for ya! xo ~Sally

  60. I loved touring your lovely home. I am so weary of seeing everything painted white and I hope that trend has run its course. . I like the eclectic décor and the warm colors that you used. I get so much pleasure from looking at all the creatively decorated homes.

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