🍂 COZY FALL DECORATING 🍂 Entryway, stairs, dining room and more!

Well hello friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be transforming the other part of our home for a fall decorating video. I'm going to start here in the entryway and the staircase. I found some beautiful photos to bring some inspiration to today's video and then we'll end with a beautiful tablescape. I can't wait to show you today's video. If you haven't already seen my first video with the kitchen, the breakfast nook, and our family room, definitely check that out. It will be linked down below. And if you're new here, I would love to introduce myself. My name is Lauren Nicholson. I am a mom to four children. I live in the Napa Valley. I love to share all things homemaking, decorating, cooking, cleaning, you name it. We love to share it here on my channel. I'd love it if you would subscribe and if you're returning, it's so great to see you. Okay, so in following the same video concept of our last video where we made the entire other part of the house feel like a hallmark love story, we're going to try to attempt to do the same thing here in this space. I have that very grand 12-foot bookshelf. We're going to be playing with these stairs. I'm also going to be doing the living room area. This is one of my favorite seasons because it gives us a chance to slow down, get cozy, make our home feel like I would love it feel, which is the hallmark set of a gorgeous fall love story. You know the ones with like the warm glowing lights through the windows, soft cozy blankets, cookies baking in the oven, family dinners, all of those beautiful long night walks with the crunching of the leaves. I just love everything about hallmark love movies. So grab a cup of coffee, maybe light a candle, and let's get into today's video. So as I briefly touched on in the last video I did, which again I'll have linked down below if you'd like to check that out, is I feel that a home that is warm, smells good, feels cozy, is a welcoming home. So one of the things I like to do is transform the house for all seasons and fall happens to be one of my favorites. It has even since I was a little little kid. I have so many great memories. My parents got divorced when I was very very young so I had one home that had a gigantic spruce tree in front of it and had the largest leaves you could ever imagine. And the other house had a giant old heritage oak that dropped all the acorns. And I used to make acorn necklaces and I would always find the one that had worms in it and I just loved that. And then at my mom's house there were these giant sycamore trees that had leaves that were larger than my head. They were so big and they filled the entire street. I loved going outside and making a big pile to jump in hoping that our neighbor's dog didn't poop in them. But it happened from time to time which was always kind of a bummer. But anyway, so fall has always been one of my favorite times of the year and I love decorating the house so that people feel excited, warm, cozy. It's just always a great feeling for me and my kids as well. So today we're going to be tackling the most important part which is the front of the house. This is what people see. Usually they don't see Marie climbing all of our decor but, well perhaps maybe, but for the most part when they open the door and we welcome them into the home this is the first thing they're going to see. So I want it to feel warm and inviting. I always struggle because this house was built in 2001. It's a tract home which means basically a builder took a large piece of land and put identical homes all next to each other. So it kind of really lacks that personalized feel. So all I can really do is make it feel like home and warmth through my decor. So today I'm using this balsam hill. This is the cinnamon apple line I've had for many many years. I used to use this at our Victorian years ago and then I've been collecting these baskets from home goods over the years. If I see them the same size and look I always like to grab them. I tuck blankets in them. I use them for all different seasons and I thought this year to kick things off we could kind of create a nice area over here welcoming folks up the stairs with some of those gorgeous balsam hill mom plants that I have. Now I will tell you I did see a bunch of them at home goods as of recent. Yellow, red, a mix of yellow, red, orange. So if you are looking to pick these up the ones I saw at home goods looked very high quality much like the ones that I picked up from balsam hill. These I again I haven't I don't think I've purchased anything rather new from balsam hill for fall. I did get some Christmas stuff with their Christmas in July sale but I'll link down below what I can find. Now I also had an idea of taking that ladder which I usually keep my towels on in our bathroom and just throwing over a cozy blanket to warm up this otherwise really boring part of the staircase. This landing is so large and I used to keep baskets for the kids clothes and whatnot for them to take upstairs but I thought for this season especially thinking about when guests walk into the house what they're going to see I thought it'd be nice to add a nice blanket and maybe a sign. We'll throw in a couple pumpkins and just try to warm it up the best we can. Now I haven't really ever used this space for a lot of my decor and I'd really like to start. I like to watch a lot of other YouTubers who have those beautiful vintage hutches and they use all their seasonal decor throughout them. I would just love to do that but I thought it'd be kind of fun to decorate just this bottom area for fall. I'm gonna move my mother's urn back into the kitchen where she loves to be the most. I feel like she doesn't like being here in this hallway. If you're new here my mom passed away a couple years ago and I pretty much drag her around the house everywhere with me because that's my grieving process but anyway she's back in the kitchen where she belongs. So I wanted to clean all of this up and then I have some really cute little prints that I've collected over the years and I thought it'd be neat to kind of just make this space feel very cozy. Again I'm going for that kind of overdone Hallmark feel. If you guys have seen Hallmark movies you know they're very overdone spaces that almost I just feel like they transform a space and take you to another place in time and feeling. So we're going to be doing that here in this space today. For the most part of today's video I am using everything that I've had for years except this print. I did get it Hobby Lobby. I was there getting some things I needed for Christmas. I know it's very early but if I don't get it now I won't have enough to do our trees. I have, if you're new here, I have two 15 foot balsam slim trees that kind of book in the fireplace here in our living room which you'll see in a moment and it requires quite a bit of deco mesh so I like to get it. Plus it was 50% off so it came out to like four dollars which is a really really great great price for the product there. I want to say 30 feet long so it's absolutely perfect for a good cascading feel. Anyway I promise you I will not talk about Halloween or Christmas again. Oh my gosh I have Halloween on the brain as well. Anyway so while I was there I did see that beautiful fall church and I absolutely fell in love with it. The Hobby Lobby that I have is quite far from where I live. It's not terrible. It's like half an hour and it's not the best. It doesn't come with all the things. There is one about an hour away that I probably should just make a day of. One of my girlfriends from college lives out there so I could probably make a day of it but anyway I did find that print and I just thought it was absolutely beautiful. I'll link it down below if I can find it on their website. Sometimes the stuff in the store they don't also have for sale online. So I'm going to add just a little again some warmth using things like some fall foliage some beautiful prints that I've had for a long time and then I'm going to add some pumpkins. I have some apples and just little things throughout this space and then we're going to finish it off with some twinkle lights. Now if you are looking for twinkle lights you know they can be around 15 to 30 dollars depending on where you find them. I was at Target not intending to get twinkle lights but they had I want to say they're 15 feet for five dollars which is a great price. It also comes with a little I would say it's a copper backing so it really does fit with the fall decor. So I ended up grabbing a couple of those and we'll be using those three throughout kind of collected throughout the years. Highly recommend again checking them out at Hobby Lobby. They're really really inexpensive. I think those came out to a dollar a piece but they are so cute and then I'm going to tuck in some of these acorns. Again they remind me so much of being a little kid. I don't know about you guys but when I grew up I was born in 1984 but when I grew up when I got my homework done I was to be out of the house until dinner time. Like we there was no hanging out watching tv. I mean we didn't have cell phones and whatnot. I mean we had a Nintendo but gosh those were like maybe one hour a week my dad would let us play that. So I was outside riding bikes with my friends which is so funny the other day my husband and I kind of had a date day and went to one of our favorite restaurants and I ran into my childhood best friend who I was just telling my husband how much this decor was reminding me of just what an incredible childhood it was just being best friends with her and she was there with her dad and it was just like it brought back such core beautiful great memories of us you know hiding out in trees and going on adventures and anyway it was always around this time of year because summer was over and we were back to school so we really coveted that play time more than ever. But anywho so I tucked all those in I had all my acorns out and then I was just going to do a fun tablescape. I wanted to do something a little more rustic so I am going to tuck in just a couple different picks and these beautiful lights I picked up this is a grapevine lit piece that I got from Michael's oh my gosh this is so fun I'm going to be using this for Halloween as well I could see some bats and spooky things glued onto there but I wanted to see how it worked and I just thought it was really fun. I will link those down below because they are really fun to play with and I love how versatile they are I also love that it creates that ethereal dimension I'm really going for. So for this tablescape I was thinking of doing more of like a floral arrangement like you would see at a wedding or something like that obviously not a fall I guess it'd be a fall wedding but we're going to do that and then keep the table setting rather simple. Marie our little kitten was obsessed with this decor I had to put her in my bedroom during this filming because she would not let me do anything without her on this table fiddling with all of this good stuff so I did end up removing her I probably edited it out because I had to remove her from this table like six times then I had to spray it all down again and it was a whole thing but she's living her best life I guess the animals aren't all in this video and now that I realize it oh I think Pepe he was asleep on the couch so you'll see him later our little chihuahua but Henry Enzo and Tuna were all outside hanging out with the chickens and it was a really nice day it was quite windy this particular day so it's been very very strange weather of hot cold and a mix of everything in between hoping we don't have with a napkin ring I will link those all down below all of this stuff that I can link the pillows my trees these placemats napkins napkin rings whatnot I will link everything that I can find sometimes it's stuff from home goods so it's a little hard to link but I do my best to link what I do know and where it did come from so the other part to this area I wanted to do was kind of touch up the entryway now I do know in one of my past decorating videos for fall I did the entryway of some more neutrals and I really like the way that turned out but I did want to update it just a bit to warm it up I did notice that this is our this is like a home diffuser it is incredible everybody always asks me where I got it how what scent I use I will link them both down below they make your house smell like you're in a hotel like a really nice fancy one the smell is subtle well you can actually change it to be whatever you want it has an app and everything and I just refill it every month and it's just one of my favorite things to do I do need to go find out if they have a fall scent but I usually have my fall candles going which do it to do the job just fine this will cover up to a thousand square feet of space making it smell clean and lovely if you're looking for a good diffuser always check down below and also I did link these lamps in a bunch of my other videos but I'll have those linked as well so I'm just going to throw together just a rather neutral kind of floral arrangement I will say that I am running out of decor I can't believe I'd be saying this but I actually kind of ran out of decor so I'm not sure what I'm going to do in my bedroom and I have no intention of purchasing anything else so I might have to edit some of my decor down so I can finish that but I was a little bit bummed I wanted to do so much more in here but I went out into all my bins I'm like oh my gosh I have used everything and that's a bummer these picks all came from Hobby Lobby you can check that out online or just head into the store is probably the best way to go about that but for this arrangement I wanted to add in some more natural looking elements so I added in these picks just to kind of break up the brightness of the fall foliage I was using and use some of these maple leaves and some magnolia leaves and acorns and whatnot just to bring in that warmth of the season so now that I have the basics pretty much done I'm going to go around and just add a couple little details to really warm up these spaces and give them that overdone hallmark feel of warmth I'm using different textures I love to use these little picks one because they're inexpensive two because they're easy to store for following seasons but three because they really give it that extra beautiful feeling of overdone high quality decorating which I always love now it doesn't mean that there are times when I just want things to be a little more subtle but for the sake of the way I enjoy to kind of share the spirit of a season being fall Halloween Christmas I like things a little overdone because you may see this and say I really just like that tree and wouldn't want anything else doesn't matter take what you like and leave the rest since I picked up a couple extra boxes of twinkle lights I wanted to make sure I didn't forget to do the kitchen now this is a sneak peek of one part of this space so definitely go check out this video because I think it's one of my best best decorating videos I've ever done it really brings in all the pieces in my house I got to use every single piece of fall decor in these two videos which is just incredible so definitely go check that one out here is a little tour on how everything turned out tell us in the comments what you think thank you so much for watching another decorating video for fall 2025 where we transform the house into a beautiful fall hallmark love story I hope you enjoyed today's video I will be doing a full home tour later probably in early September so if you want to hit the subscribe button and see that it will be done at night so you can see how those wonderful twinkle lights all make such a beautiful difference when you're looking for that warmth and that just ethereal feeling it's so great you can also again I'll have them linked down below but they're only five bucks at target and they really do make a huge difference thank you so much for watching today's video and I will see you in the next video real soon bye