I don’t drink pumpkin lattes and I don’t run off to the apple orchard and I do not need to pull out a chunky Ralph Lauren scarf the moment the temperature dips one degree, but I do love myself some fall. I love the change that fall brings, not just outdoors but indoors as well. Fall is the perfect time to start anew, to refresh and revitalize yourself and your home. Fall is the time to pay attention to the corners of your home and yourself that have been neglected far too long.
When Gatsby’s great love Daisy Buchanan asks somewhat longingly, “What will we do today, and then tomorrow, and for the next thirty years?” the response could not be truer…. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
So today I decided to start all over…nothing major…just something small…… but this corner is neglected no more…
Where better to start then with your entryway? That moment when you enter a house you know what it is all about…if the stage has been set. This is your first opportunity to welcome your guests and it should be reflect the people who live in your home and it should be season appropriate!
So this was my summer entryway. (look at my peonies!!) Pretty, yet is has to go
Fall has arrived and I needed a refresh… in an hour or so I was done ….
Inspiration:
I just loved the calm inducing mood of this entryway I had dog eared in a favorite magazine
I kept the gold tray but brought in an old antique mirror to bounce some light around as the days get shorter and the sunlight becomes less and less…
Add flowers of course…seasonal and beautiful
To balance the height of the flowers, a beautiful lantern with that
Lucious green color
And back to that inspiration photo….
Well don’t I just have a buddha head laying around (No really I do)
The rule of threes in any space is always beautiful but an entryway its perfect. A beautiful candle or a lantern, something fresh and alive be it fresh flowers or a potted plant and then something that speaks to you and the homes’ personality and your done!
Welcome guests….welcome fall….Volia!
So find a corner of your house and breath some new life…neglect it no more!!
***Update: The lovely young lady who delivers my dry cleaning said my front entrance was beautiful! I’ll take a compliment like that any day!
All Through My House 