Easy ideas to make your house look perfect for Thanksgiving.
Are you hosting parties this fall? Decorating for a festive Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be hard or expensive. Here are some ideas for decorations inside and out for your home.
How to Decorate for Thanksgiving
Decorating for fall holidays can be a bit overwhelming. Breaking down your plans into what colors to use, what theme to use, and the materials to choose from can help you decorate with less stress.
Colors
Thanksgiving has traditionally used the colors nature displays in the fall. Yellow, orange, and red are reflected in the foliage. While any decorations need to fit your home’s usual decor and colors, focusing on bright hues of red, orange, and yellow can bring the colors from outside into your house. Bold colors brighten and enhance rooms, especially when it is dark outside.
Themes
The usual themes for Thanksgiving are gratitude for events from the last year and bountiful harvests. Foods such as gourds and pumpkins reflect the bountiful harvest. Photographs or other memorabilia from pleasant events of the last year can be set up so guests can share in your gratitude. Infrequent visitors can see your display and catch up on what has happened in your life.
Materials
Many Thanksgiving decorations incorporate dried flowers, durable food items, and swaths of colorful cloth. The horn of plenty, filled with gourds or fruit, celebrates the harvest. Cut flowers that have been dried make colorful centerpieces on the table, mantel, and on tables in the foyer. Use a colorful scarf as an accent draped across the back of the sofa to tie your furniture into the decorations.
Thanksgiving Decoration Ideas for Your Home
Some people want to blend their decorations into their existing decor. Others want to make a bold splash that really stands out.
Making Harvest-Themed Decorations
Harvest-themed decorations don’t have to be the horn of plenty. You can make great centerpieces by using dried twigs with fruit on them, such as crabapples, wheat or barley stalks, and some fall-blooming flowers. Choose flowers that complement the colors you have decided on for your overarching theme. These arrangements can be placed on the entryway table, on the mantel and fireplace, or on an end table.
Show Your Gratitude
Harvests aren’t the only thing to celebrate. Set up an area, such as a table, and fill it with pictures and other things that represent what you are grateful for this year. Such a gratitude table allows friends and relatives you may not see frequently to catch up on your news quickly. You can choose to let these people add things they are grateful for to the table or keep it just for yourself.
Table decorations don’t have to be hard.
Dressing the Thanksgiving Table
The Thanksgiving feast is usually an important part of Thanksgiving. Decorate the table where you will eat so it reflects the themes you choose for your decor. Fall produce and foliage make nice runners down the center of the table. Remember to use low candles and vases of flowers so people can see each other and visit over the meal.
Avoid busy tables, as they can be overwhelming. Avoid fragrant foliage to avoid triggering allergies. Mix your table decorations so they are different heights and materials to keep things interesting. Using multiples of decorations in odd-number clumps, such as three candles, helps pull the decor together.
Thanksgiving Decoration Ideas for Outside
Your outdoor decor is the first thing your guests see. Decorate the porch and front of the house to welcome your guests to the party. Decorate the back of your house to make the space cheerful and pleasant.
Planters flank this door and frame it for visitors.
Coordinate The Porch and Door
Your porch and front door look best when they are a cohesive space. One way to do this is to take some small pictures and paint them white or gold. Place them on the porch steps with a planter that has coordinating plants with it. Chrysanthemums or daises will last quite a while in a flowerpot. Use the same colors and some cut plants from the pot to make a Thanksgiving wreath for the front door.
Using Seasonal Planters
As an alternative to flowerpots, place two large planters with seasonal plants in them on either side of the door. Beautiful seasonal planters can frame the door and lead the eye to the wreath there. If you have a porch with columns, place two planters against the outermost columns, then two more on either side of the door to funnel people’s attention to the door.
Enhance the Doormat
Doormats provide an additional way to enhance your porch. Place a sturdy area rug under the doormat and place flowerpots or planters on the corners of the area rug. You can get a holiday doormat to use in place of your usual one and add extra cheer.
Light Up the Landscape
Outdoor lighting serves multiple purposes in the landscape. Use it to highlight a specimen plant or direct attention to a fountain. Path lights make sure no one stumbles and falls. Advanced lighting, such as FX Luxor lighting systems, allows you to adjust the intensity and color of your outdoor lights from your smartphone. For example, for a football-watching party, you can make the lights red and white. For Thanksgiving, you can make them shades of red, orange, and yellow.
Stay Warm with a Cozy Fire Feature
Fire features are mesmerizing and keep the chill of autumn at bay. A fire pit is just right for making smores during a football-watching party. A fireplace with a big screen TV over it also works well. Guests can stay warm and still see the game in your outdoor living area.
Thanksgiving decor doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. We hope this article has given you some easy ideas to make your home shine for the holidays.
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