It is my pleasure to be blogging about Home & Garden for OVER40FEMALES.  My name is Christina Sullivan Roughan and I have been an interior designer/stylist for over 20 years.  Fall is a wonderful time to talk about design as the burst of autumn colors has always inspired my interiors.   As we all know, October is the month of Halloween, apple picking and pumpkin carving and has the ability to bring out the Dorothy Draper/Emily Post in all of us.   Therefore I have pulled together a few innovative fun ways to bring those beautiful fall colors into your home.

1. Welcome to my home in Weston Ct.  As you can see from the above photo placing pumpkins on and around your property adds a festive warmth that should last through Thanksgiving.  You can place them above the door sills, window sills on porches, steps and out on a stone wall.
2. Pumpkin carving is a lot of fun and there are a many great carving kits out there, in fact last night my family and I had some fun with the  Season deluxe carving kit. This kit can be purchased through amazon.com.   Just look at the wonderful webs that can be carved!

3.    Bittersweet Wreaths and cornhusks on doors are a wonderful way to invite the outside in.  Also Mums add so much color and last for a long time.  I love orange Mums against a colonial blue home.  The contrast is extraordinary!

    

4.    Pheasant feathers always create a stir at any Fall party.   You can put them in a wreath or in a vase as shown below.    



Happy Fall Decorating !
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