Fall Decorating with Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins

Fall Decorating with Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins will give you some cute ideas on how to add the perfect seasonal touch to your home and garden.

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Fall Decorating with Gourds and Pumpkins and fall leaves

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau

Pumpkins, squash and gourds are so beautiful to look at and they can instantly transform your home into a little slice of autumn heaven.

Who knew there were so many ways to display these jewels?

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Ideas on Fall Decorating with Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins

1) Table runner

Clustering pumpkins and gourds in the center of your table creates a beautiful table runner. Make sure you have varying sizes of the gourds and pumpkins so there is visual interest.

Other things you can add are greenery and berries, leaves and candle pillars for a beautiful table.

Fall Decorating with Gourds and Pumpkins - Creating a Table Runner with pumpkins and gourds

Here’s another view of the pumpkin and gourd table runner.

Fall table runner using pumpkins, gourds, greenery and cranberries.

2) Pumpkin Vase

Pumpkins become even more beautiful when they are used as a vase for your fall flowers.

Hollowing out a pumpkin and using it as a vase for flowers.

3) Lantern

Use decorative cutouts and create a one-of-a-kind lantern to light the path to your door.

Decorating with Gourds and Pumpkins. Making a lantern out of squash, pumpkins, or gourds

4) Window box dressing with pumpkins and gourds

Use your window boxes as a way to add fall color to the exterior of your home.

Adding other elements like mums and leaves will add color to the display.

Window box with pumpkins, mums, and seasonal flowers

5) Fill a rustic wheelbarrow with a nod to fall

Wheelbarrows are such a handy tool. Why not put it to work in the fall by making it part of your decorating scheme?

A wheelbarrow holds a pile of pumpkins and Indian corn

6) Fall welcoming wreath

Greet your friends and family with a harvest-inspired wreath with gourds and mini-pumpkins. It will make you smile every time you enter your front door.

Decorating with pumpkins and gourds. Fall Wreath with Pumpkins

7) Autumn Place Settings

Adding a mini pumpkin or gourd to your family’s place settings is an easy way to bring the fall season to your evening meal.

8) Fall Candle Holder

Who said plants are the only thing that look good potted? The cute terra cottage pots and mugs elevate the mini pumpkins and offer more ways to display them.

Autumn decorating with gourds and pumpkins. Fall Candle Holder with pumpkins, gourds, and apples.

9) Autumn planters

Use your outdoor planters and turn them into a way to showcase your fall treasures and make your yard look adorable.

Autumn Decorating with Gourds and Pumpkins - Outdoor Planters with Pumpkins and Gourds

Here are pumpkins nestled with mums – the perfect fall vignette.

Pumpkins, squash, and gourds nestled among mums.

10) Menu board

If you’re hosting a gathering, use a pumpkin to write the night’s menu on it.

Fall Decorating with Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins - Pumpkin menu board

11) Soup bowls

Serving a creamy fall soup just got a whole lot more beautiful when you serve them in the hallowed out vessels of squash and pumpkins.

Sprinkle a few pumpkin seeds on top of the soup for an added touch of WOW!

Simple Ways to Use Pumpkins, Squash and Gourds for Fall Decorating

12) Work of art

When you really look at how beautiful pumpkins, squash and gourds are, you realize that they are truly artistic wonders that deserve to be in the spotlight.

Why not feature one beautiful pumpkin on a stool and let it take center-stage?

Simple Ways to Use Pumpkins and Gourds for Fall Decorating

We’ve reached the end of Fall Decorating with Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins. I hope you enjoyed it!

Let me know in the comments below how you use pumpkins, squash and gourds to decorate your home.

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