Get inspired for fall with this neutral fall dining room decor! Lots of fall decorating ideas and simple tips to add a cozy fall touch to your home.
Fall Home Tours
Are you ready for some beautiful fall home decor inspiration? This week I’m participating in a fun fall home tour hop with 30 talented blogging friends. Each day this week, 6 bloggers will be opening up their homes and showing you their favorite fall decor ideas. I love seeing all of the different decor styles and decorating tips that are shared, so I hope you get a chance to check them out. You can find everyone participating at the end of the post.
Before we get started I would like to take a minute to thank Marty from A Stroll Thru Life for putting these seasonal tours together each year. This season’s tour is extra special because Marty recently lost her husband to Covid-19 in addition to battling the illness herself. We will all be thinking of her and her family throughout these tours and are sending her lots of love and prayers.
If you’re new here or coming over from Decor To Adore – welcome! I’m so glad to have you here and hope you enjoy the tour. Grab an apple cider and come on in!
Neutral Fall Dining Room Decor
If you haven’t guessed already, today I’ll be sharing our fall dining room decor with you. Our dining room is the first room that you see when you’re standing in our front entry way so I always like to deck it out for the different seasons. I think it’s probably my favorite room to decorate!
As we tour through our dining room, I thought I’d share some fall decorating tips with you. These ideas can be applied to any room. Not just the dining room! Even just a few little touches can make a big impact, so don’t feel overwhelmed. It can be a lot of fun coming up with ideas and adding a little fall coziness to your home!
Choose a color scheme.
I’m always torn between the pretty netural fall decor and the more traditional fall colors. So this year, I did a little of both! I used the more traditional colors in our kitchen and living room but decided to keep our dining room more neutral. I do love the more muted fall colors and they go so well with metallics like gold or copper.
If you’re having trouble choosing a color scheme, it can be helpful to choose an inspiration piece to pull colors from. It could be a piece of artwork, a throw pillow, a particular decor piece you like or anything else that you’re drawn to. I found this Pumpkin Spice Latte sign at Michales and loved the soft muted colors.
Get inspired by nature.
Fall is one of the prettiest times of the year. So take advantage of all of the inspiration that nature has to offer! I used a variety of nature-inspired elements in the room including wheat, acorns, corn husks, and pine cones. You can also find a lot of realistic faux options too. Fall stems, pumpkins, and gourds all come in a variety of colors that would go with any fall color scheme.
Create a fall centerpiece.
Dress up your dining room table with a pretty fall centerpiece. It doesn’t have to be anything too elaborate and sometimes the simpler ones end up being my favorite. Shop your home for a large bowl or basket that you could fill with pumpkins or faux stems. Or gather a cutting board or tray to use as a base I shared my simple step by step process that I used for putting together this nature inspired fall centerpiece HERE.
Use printables.
Printables are one of the easiest ways to switch up your holiday decor and you can find many free fall printables to download online. I created these Scandinavian style fall printables to use in our dining room this year to work with our color scheme. If you like to use printables for the different seasons, just keep all of the prints in one frame and swap them around as the seasons change.
Put together a beverage bar.
A beverage bar is a fun way to enjoy all of those delicious tastes of fall. A couple of weeks ago, I shared our hot beverage bar that I set up on our sideboard. It’s filled with hot chocolate, fall-flavored teas, and some fall syrups that I add to frothed steamed milk. I don’t drink coffee, but you could totally make a coffee bar too.
You can grab the free fall beverage labels and hot beverage bar printables on this post.
I also put together a cute apple cider bar in the other corner of the room. I love apple cider and look forward to it every year.
While we obviously don’t have it filled with apple cider on a regular basis, I do often fill it with water and infuse cinnamon and apples in it. And some dried apples and caramels always go well with anything!
Turn on the glow.
Adding some lights or candles to your dining room is the perfect way to create a warm, cozy atmosphere. Personally, I like to mix in twinkle lights anywhere I can. lol! I used some on our centerpiece, our hot beverage bar, and as a garland above our hutch. It looks so pretty at night!
Look for lights that have an automatic on/off switch so you don’t have to remember to turn them on and off each day. I set mine to come on just as the sun is going down so there’s always a pretty glow.
I also have a couple of lighted Christmas trees that I’ve kept out on our sideboard. To make them look a little more fall-like, I added some faux fall leaves to it. I think it’s my favorite thing in the room. The leaves take on such a pretty, warm glow!
Thank-you so much for touring around with me today! I hope you enjoyed our fall dining room decor. If you’d like to keep in touch, subscribe to my emails over on the side bar or look for me here…
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I’m the last home on the tour today, but Anita from Far Above Rubies will be kicking things off again tomorrow morning. Please say hello to her for me!
Fall Home Tour Line-Ups
I hope you can find some time to visit some of the other beautiful fall home tours! There are a variety of decor styles included, so you’re sure to find tons of inspiration to help cozy up your home. I’ll be updating the links each day as new tours are posted, so be sure to check back. Enjoy the tours!
Monday Fall Home Tours
It All Started With Paint / Inspiration for Moms / Modern Glam / Southern State of Mind / Decor to Adore / Clean and Scentsible
Tuesday Fall Home Tours
Far Above Rubies / Town and Country Living / Thrifty and Chic / StoneGable / Setting for Four / Making it in the Mountains
Wednesday Fall Home Tours
Seeking Lavender Lane / The Wood Grain Cottage / Duke Manor Farm / 11 Magnolia Lane / Life on Cedar Lane
Thursday Fall Home Tours
Thistlewood Farm / Hymns and Verses / Follow The Yellow Brick Home / Our Southern Home / Remodelando la Casa / Pink Peppermint Design
Friday Fall Home Tours
Worthing Court / CitrineLiving / Cherished Bliss / Delightful Order / A Stroll Thru Life
Jenn you have truly outdone yourself! What a gorgeous tour. I am truly inspired.
Thanks so much Laura! Hope you have a wonderful fall!
Your home is so cozy and fabulously fall! The beverage station is so sweet!
Thanks so much Christy!
Oh my word, your dining room decor is all so beautiful. I love the twinkle of the lights and I love the beautiful beverage bar you set up. Such an inviting idea and way to serve your guests. Thanks so much for joining the tour this season and for working so closely with Laura @ It All Started With Paint as she organized these tours for me.
Thanks so much Marty! I’ve been thinking about you often and was so happy that Linda was able to continue your home tour tradition this season. <3
Stunning Jen!! I’m obsessed with those little twinkly birch trees with faux leaves that you added to them! So clever and perfect for fall! Gorgeous fall home decor my friend! Pinned! xo Heather
Thanks Heather! Looking forward to touring your home!
I love how you decorated your home for fall. I love how the traditional fall colors pop against the charcoal cabinet. What a perfect combination! xo
Thanks Ashely! It was wonderful touring with you! Happy Fall!
Okay, I had no idea I needed automatic twinkle lights (didn’t even know there are sets you schedule!) in my fall decor — or maybe even year round decor? — but now I do!!!
I just adore your decked out dining room! Simply gorgeous!
And so happy to fall home tour with you this year!
🙂 Linda
Oh yes! You definitely need automatic twinkle lights! 😉
Thanks again for putting these tour together! I look forward to seeing the rest of them.
I Love LOVE the beverage stations you created! It all looks so cozy and welcoming. I need to get me some of those lights!
So glad you went all out with your fall decorating so fun to look at each grouping and get ideas! Now that we’re spending more time inside it’s fun to jazz things up!
Thanks! Yes, I think we’ll definitely all be home a little more this fall especially! It’s nice to have a relaxing, cozy space. Happy Fall!
Your home is beautiful I love it all. The lights I use too makes it so warm, I love your trees gold leaves look great also very good ideal
I guess I need to use less orange and more neutrals it’s just soooooo pretty
Thanks so much! Orange is pretty too – I used it in a lot of our other rooms. It’s sometimes nice to switch it up though!
Love everything! My favorite on the tour so far. I especially like the Apple Cider Bar. I’m not normally a fan of neutral Fall decorating, but yours had a nice mix of amber and wheat colors. Nicely done!
Thanks so much! Whenever I try to decorate in neutrals, there are always a few colors that sneak in. lol!
I just love your fall home and all of your welcoming touches for the season…especially that apple cider bar!! Yum!!
Jenn, your home always looks amazing. The pumpkin spice latte sign is so cute!!
Would love to know where I could purchase the gold maple leaves you used on the twig birch trees. Everything is beautiful! I love the soft side of fall this year! Thanks for the inspiration!
They’re from Michaels. I know they sold out last year, so hurry if you’d like some.:) There’s a link to them in this post if you’d like…
https://www.cleanandscentsible.com/fall-hot-beverage-bar/
I love your home. Very nice! I especially would like to know where you purchased your dining room chandelier? It is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks, Carole
Thanks so much! I actually bought the light fixture almost 20 years at a local lighting store. Sorry!
HI Jenn! This is my first visit to your site to check out your fall decor. I really enjoyed touring your home-getting a peek at your interpretation of Fall.I loved your use of color and neutrals. It seems like so many bloggers are going totally neutral for Fall-which looks beautiful, but I must be a more traditionalist when it comes to my favorite season. I live in Texas where there is very minimal changing of color on the trees. It’s green in spring and summer and them the leaves fall without much color changing. I think that’s why I love the browns and golds, muted oranges, yellows and greens.I feel like my decorating over the years has become more curated-when my kids were younger, they wanted me to use every single thing to decorate. This year I narrowed down what I really wanted to use and donated 4 bins of extra stuff I will no longer be using. Thank you for sharing your home and inspiration!
Thanks so much! It always feels good to declutter extra seasonal decor and really narrow it down to what you really love. I love all of the fall colors too. Hope you have fun decorating and have a wonderful fall!