Category: Bluestone Hill

I love our New England town so much, and while it is beautiful all through winter, spring, and summer, I think it truly belongs to autumn. There is just something about the way the leaves pop off all the crisp white houses, allowing the foliage to stand out like fireworks against a night sky…but when the fireworks fade, the night sky remains a stunning backdrop that is worth a longer look itself.

As I mentioned in my last post, I love looking at other people’s fall decor, but I don’t particularly love decorating my house for fall. I love the season of fall and all the fall activities that go along with it, but I just wish decorating-wise we could skip right on to Christmas!

I have a little bit of trouble with fall colors. I love them in other people’s homes, and they seem so warm and cozy and get me all excited for pumpkin patches and apple picking, but they just don’t seem to fit here. I love the season, but the deep, warm colors just leave me perplexed.

As much as I love fall weather, I wasn’t really ready for fall colors, especially this early in the season, so I was so excited to find a few light blue-green pumpkins the other day! I added one of those and a bunch of cut branches to the entryway and pretty much called that my early fall decor! 

I’ve tried out this Gettysburg Battlefield print in a couple spots (the family room and here) and am still trying to decide where to leave it for fall, because I like it in both!

At the back of the house, there is a hallway connecting the family room (which used to be Uncle Bob’s dining room off the kitchen; we put a table in the kitchen and use the rest of the space as a family room) to the living room. As with the rest of the house, he packed this space with storage potential!