Create a snug autumn atmosphere with these fall living room decor ideas. Display the season's most stunning colors, textures, and foliage in your living room. Create the ultimate cozy environment you'll want to curl up in all season long. From soft throws to seasonal accents, you can transform your space for fall without spending a fortune. Incorporate these indoor autumn decorations on your coffee table, fireplace mantel, window sills, and more for a cozy fall-inspired living area.

KIM CORNELISON

1. Stunning Autumn Mantel Inspiration
A roaring fire is the ultimate feature to capture everyone's attention with your gorgeous fall mantel. Natural elements like gourds and leaves add an autumnal flair, while the rich green of the fireplace serves as a striking focal point.

Victoria Pearson

2. Simplistic Autumn Decor
In an all-white living room, maintain the minimalist aesthetic by incorporating subtle fall accents. Placing branches with red leaves in vases on either side of the fireplace brings fall color indoors and complements other earthy elements in the room, such as the stump end tables and wood-filled fireplace.

EDMUND BARR

3. Autumn Coffee Table Concepts
Classic pumpkins take the spotlight in this living room, harmonizing well with the cotton and seed pods in the planter on the coffee table. A few throw pillows with skeletons and spooky phrases connect the fall and Halloween themes, and can easily be swapped out as the seasons transition.

Kelsey Hansen

4. Rustic Autumn Mantel
As the focal point of your living room, adorn the mantel for fall with a few orange pumpkins and a garland of moss. Jacaranda seed pods introduce an unconventional natural element to the display, making it more unique and intriguing.

Michael Partenio

5. Subtle Autumn Color Scheme
You don’t always have to use chrysanthemums to display your fall style. The coffee table in this living room achieves the same effect with a vase full of deep yellow flowers. Pairing it with a bowl of pears or gourds helps create a lush fall harvest look without making any major changes to the room.

Dane Tashima

6. Cozy Living Room Decorations
A bowl of miniature pumpkins and gourds is a quick and easy way to infuse fall style into your living room. This design also incorporates other touches throughout the space to create a cohesive autumn look, such as the vase with branches of red and orange leaves, and the leaf garland draped across the fireplace mantel.

Werner Straube

7. Autumn Farmhouse
The rustic textures and neutral tones of farmhouse style create the ideal backdrop for autumn living room decor. Add a few fall accessories to swiftly transform your space for the season. In this cozy living area, an assortment of plaid throws in autumnal shades and a coffee table display featuring an heirloom pumpkin and a vase of fall flowers transform the space.

Michael Partenio

8. Rustic Autumn Living Room
If you want to infuse fall style into a room without placing pumpkins and cobwebs, try swapping out a small piece of furniture. This living room features a small pouf in pumpkin orange, which instantly creates an autumnal feel when paired with rich-colored throw pillows.

Jay Wilde

9. Black and White Autumn Decor
Integrate fall decor with your year-round style by using black-and-white items like striped pumpkins, crows, and eerie cobwebs. The neutral colors complement bolder elements in the room, like the sage green bookshelf, and also harmonize with more traditional orange pumpkins and faux leaves.

Kelsey Hansen

10. Petite Autumn Display
Adorn a side table or entryway table with pumpkins and lotus seed pods. Even if you don’t decorate the entire room, creating a small display on one table will help the entire space feel cohesive and ready for the changing leaves.

Jay Wilde

11. Natural Autumn Decor
Some of the finest fall decor ideas are inspired by nature. Visit a pumpkin patch to choose pumpkins and gourds in a variety of shapes and colors, and use them to adorn your coffee table, fireplace mantel, and other living room furniture. For an additional burst of fall color, clip branches with changing leaves and place them in simple vases.

Jay Wilde

12. Natural Autumn Living Room
Thanks to the beautiful wood accent wall and vaulted ceilings in this living room, the space already has a cozy, rustic atmosphere that's perfect for fall. However, you can help transition the room for the season with a few subtle touches, such as a snug plaid throw placed at the end of the leather couch and a couple of earth-tone accent pillows.

WERNER STRAUBE

13. Indoor Autumn Wreath
Wreaths aren’t just for your front door. If you have space on the wall or even in front of a linen cabinet like in this room, hang a wreath with vibrant fall colors that you can enjoy every day. A few pumpkins on the coffee table and short wheat stalks in a rustic vase complete the farmhouse autumn feel in this room.

Brie Williams

14. Sophisticated Living Room Decorations
Metallic pumpkins introduce a refined touch to traditional fall decor. The subtle shine on the pumpkins complements the elegance of the mantel and concrete planter, while the black crow perched on top adds a touch of playfulness and fun.

ADAM ALBRIGHT

15. Maximalist Halloween Decorations
Embrace the full fall spirit by adding numerous slightly spooky decorations to your living room. Bare branches placed throughout the space can transition from Halloween to Thanksgiving, tying in with other early fall decorations like black cats and bats. Canvas letters spelling out “Boo” along the ladder in the corner help unify the room's decor.

James Schroder

16. Subtle Autumn Living Room Decor
Maintain simplicity in your fall decor by adding a few miniature pumpkins to built-in shelves. The earth tones in this room naturally complement fall colors, and they’re easy to highlight with small touches like a moss green throw pillow.

Kritsada Panichgul

17. Autumn Mantel Ideas
Create a cheerful display above your fireplace mantel with a few simple fall living room decorations, such as festive autumn wreaths. Here, sprigs of vibrant bittersweet transform a basic grapevine wreath into an autumn focal point. Autumn-inspired accents in various heights, including multicolored mini pumpkins and a vase holding colorful branches, keep the fall mantel display engaging.

Werner Straube

18. Simple Autumn Living Room
Creating a fall living room doesn't necessitate a complete overhaul. Use simple autumn decorations gathered from nature for a quick seasonal refresh. Collect colorful leaves from trees in your yard to place atop side tables, on decorative trays, and inside vases. Position creamy white pumpkins throughout the space for a subtly festive look.

Jay Wilde

19. Spooky Autumn Mantel
This fall living room idea utilizes stacks of books as the foundation for a Halloween-themed mantel. Arrange volumes with black or dark-gray covers in piles of varying heights. Mix in small pumpkins and miniature skull decorations, then drape the arrangement with faux cobwebs for a stylish yet eerie look. When Halloween is over, replace the skulls and cobwebs with pinecones, cornhusks, and other harvest-inspired fall decorations.

Jay Wilde

20. DIY Autumn Living Room Decor
Draw inspiration from nature for DIY autumn living room decor. This fireplace mantel display features a garland made from cut-out acorn shapes and an assortment of pumpkins, leaves, and greenery. Birch logs act as perches for pillar candles, while a simple grapevine wreath adorned with faux flowers, grasses, and cotton bolls completes the arrangement.

Adam Albright

21. Painted Pumpkin Decorations
This delightful pumpkin decorating idea immediately infuses a fall atmosphere into existing living room decor. Begin by collecting pumpkins (real or artificial) in various sizes. Paint them white for a clean, modern appearance, then nestle them among the accessories on built-in shelves or a bookcase. Vary the scale of the objects on each shelf for balance.

Michael Partenio

22. Autumn Living Room Ideas
Fall decorating can be as simple as exchanging your current living room essentials for decor in vibrant colors. A burnt-orange blanket and matching pillows add warmth to this cozy room. Gourds, along with seasonally appropriate flowers and leaves, adorn the coffee table and the rustic wooden mantel.

BRITTANY SMITH

23. Slightly Spooky
Create an eerie section in your living room with a few climbing spiders and orange pumpkins. With predominantly white walls and a large white armchair, the pumpkin throw pillow and pumpkins placed on the side table immediately capture attention. It also highlights smaller details, like the subtle cobwebs on the wall and small skulls placed near the pumpkins.

Michael Partenio

24. Bittersweet Living Room Decor
Fall living rooms wouldn't be complete without natural seasonal elements like bittersweet. The colorful climbing vine features vibrant red and orange berries and makes a beautiful autumn accent. To decorate with the striking vine, place old glass bottles in fall hues, such as lemony-yellow and citrus green, on a window ledge and fill a few with branches of bittersweet.

Marty Baldwin

25. Autumn Leaves Display
Accessories play a crucial role in fall home decor. To create a striking arrangement on a budget, venture outside and clip a few tree branches showcasing the brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows of autumn. Place them in a large glass vase filled with water and set it atop a coffee table or side table.

Marty Baldwin

26. Halloween Living Room Ideas
If fall decor means Halloween to you, infuse a touch of spookiness into your living room with these DIY spiders made of foam balls, faux fur, and black foam tubing. The lightweight spiders can adhere to your walls, creating an eerie focal point for your fall decor, especially when paired with a few pumpkins and gourds.

Greg Scheidemann

27. Autumn Living Room Color Scheme
Orange, yellow, red, and brown are classic autumn hues, but an eye-catching accent color can make your fall living room decor stand out even more. Cool colors, such as blue or green, make these warm tones appear brighter and more vibrant. A collection of colorful fall leaves, for instance, looks even more stunning when displayed inside blue glass vases.

David Prince

28. Autumn Pumpkin Ideas
Creating an elegant autumn mantel is simple when you combine natural elements with metallic accessories. In this example, a large pumpkin is etched with the homeowner's initial in a scrolling font, forming the centerpiece of the autumn arrangement. Candleholders with shiny finishes amplify the glow of flickering faux candles, while books covered in black-and-white paper add height to the living room display.

Victor Schrager

29. DIY Autumn Leaf Artwork
Harness the beauty of vibrant fall leaves by creating festive artwork to adorn a mantel or a shelf. Gather leaves with similar shapes in a variety of colors. After pressing and drying them, attach the leaves to a linen-wrapped canvas in attractive rows. Secure the leaves using pins or glue.

Jay Wilde

30. Dip-Dye Gourd Mantel
Transform your need to decorate the living room for fall into a fun painted gourd project with this autumn decorating idea. To create unique gourd decorations like these, dip a gourd into a bowl of paint. Move the gourd around in the paint until the desired portion is completely covered. If you prefer the paint-dripping look, let the gourd dry with wet paint dripping down its sides.

Kritsada Panichgul

31. Fall-Themed Pillows
Add some fun autumn living room decor with pillows that change with the season. In front, an iron-on acorn design adds a seasonal touch to a linen toss pillow. Behind, an old coffee bag was resewn around a pillow form for a nubby-textured support.