Autumn Decor & Color 2025
Can Decorating For Fall Make You Happier?
Updating your home for the new season is more than just a fun thing to do — it could actually benefit your mental health, too.
Have you ever just looked at a display of pumpkins, gourds and Halloween lights at a neighbor’s house (or even in your own home) and felt instantly happier? Well, there’s a scientific explanation for that. For many people, one of those pleasures is the simple act of decorating for fall. Decorating for the season may benefit your mental health. The colors of fall can evoke happy feelings.
The following is taken from recently published findings within a study by Dr. Elaina DellaCava, a psychiatrist at New York’s Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. You can read the entire article here…
“Colors can influence our mood and can actually create a surge of dopamine, which is our happiness hormone, Traditions give us something to look forward to.”
Don’t let your property be bare and drab this fall. Shop outdoor fall decor and fall yard decorations that will make your outdoor space look great all autumn long and be the “envy” of the neighborhood. Set the mood with seasonal autumn colors, starting with mums, celosia, asters, and other in unique container displays. Early in the season go for softer almost neutral colors, but as it gets further into the fall season, decorate with a rich fall palette or bright yellows, oranges and reds.
To decorate your garden for autumn consider adding pumpkins, gourds, hay bales, and corn stalks and whimsical autumn decor and scarecrows. Incorporate ornamental grasses and seed-producing plants for long-lasting color and wildlife interest. Try some unique fall themed stick figures and halloween ghosts and goblins amidst the beds and porch/patio displays. Make a stunning focal point with some autumn container gardening ideas, a diverse selection of which is available at the garden center. Some are already planted and for the do-it-yourselfer we have all you need to create your very own style.
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To create a harvest theme, place bales of hay in your garden beds and around the lawn. Surround the bales with corn stalks, colorful gourds and festive-looking Indian corn. Then add some splashes of color with our ornamental peppers in a variety of color and shapes, some chrysanthemums and aster and you can even hollow out a pumpkin and plant it for a unique and unusual yet lovely focal point. Pick a bunch, then place them all around your yard. Try clustering groups of them around your shrubs or within your landscaped beds, or perhaps cascade several down your porch steps.
We tend to believe we have everything you need to “dazzle” your family, friends, and neighbors. Make sure to stop by with your decorating list and bring the little ones along to have some fun. You can lurk around the Pumpkin Patch or walk the Haunted Path with scary ghouls and creatures, and then there are some cute creatures for the little ones in our petting zoo where children can interact with some friendly farm animals and make some furry friends.
