I’m all about the fall to winter holiday decor right now! I’ve completely transformed my dining room into an evergreen and pumpkin parade.
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Can you believe it’s November? I don’t know why, but it has taken me longer than usual this year to get in the holiday mood. Normally I’m listening to Christmas music about half way through October. Don’t hate!! I’m not much of a Halloween gal, so the Christmas bug usually hits me pretty early on.
This year it took much longer for the Christmas bug to hit me, but sure enough, I searched for the Pentatonix Christmas album on Spotify (or Spoty, as my dad calls it, haha) just a couple days ago. While I was in the mood, I decided to do a little decorating for the upcoming holidays. I am not quite ready to go all out for Christmas (surprisingly!), but I wanted to get some sort of holiday vibes going on. That’s when it hit me. I would create a transitional fall-to-winter look. As you can see below, I put up our artificial Christmas tree.
This tree was given to Jason by his mom years ago, before I even met him. We have had it for many years, and I love putting it up every year. It’s on the smaller side so it fits in lots of different spaces. This year, I decided to put it in our dining room, in the nook between our wall and hutch. The tree has a Christmas vibe (obviously!) but it’s not full-blown Christmasy because I didn’t decorate it with bulbs and Christmas decor. I added burlap instead to keep with the fall-to-winter holiday decor look I was going for.
Below you can see a much fuller view of the room. I love the tree there so much! I added six of these sweet evergreen trees to the table center to continue with the evergreen theme.
It is hard to believe these evergreen trees are only $5/each. They are over a foot tall, which is a nice size for tabletop placement. When I saw they were only $5, I had to get a bunch of them. I didn’t know at the time of purchase what I would use them for, but I’m sure glad I bought them now.
I dusted faux snow from Michaels over the tops of them and let the remaining snow fall on the table. I love how it brings an additional level of interest to the tablescape.
For the place settings, I used these beautiful burlap placemats, layered with chargers I got from Home Goods. On top the plate, I added a small pumpkin with a buffalo check ribbon scarf. Yep, I gave my pumpkins scarves!
They play off the buffalo check bows I made for the backs of the chairs. I actually only had enough ribbon to make four bows, so I added the bows to the four outer chairs. Then, for the middle two place settings, I added some extra greenery to the plate. One tip when decorating is if you don’t have enough material, instead of going back to the store for more, try creating an alternating, or patterned look. Not every chair, in this case, is the same – and it doesn’t have to be, to look nice.
I received tons of questions and comments about these bows on my Instagram feed that I decided to do a Facebook live about how I made them. Click on the video below if you want to watch the quick bow-making tutorial.
To continue with the buffalo check theme, I added sticks I had bought from Michaels awhile back, in a criss cross pattern on my table. Side note: I may or may not have worn my buffalo check shirt in the above video on purpose ;). I love how the sticks give it woodland look, which can really be a fall or winter look.
I added a few pinecones to really top off the snowy, winter look on the table.
As far as the linen napkins, I just gathered them into the wine glasses. This was a good option for my tablescape since it keeps them free of the faux snow on the table. Plus, I normally put my napkins on the plates, but the pumpkins were taking up that spot, so I thought gathering them in the wine glasses would be a nice change.
Since there was a lot of winter going on on the table, I decided to do a little fall look on the other side of my hutch. I added a basket of pumpkins and a scarf-chair combo. I also added this silver lantern, which is nice and tall for this spot.
I added more pumpkins to the other side of the room, on top of my buffet. 
Alongside the pumpkins, a couple birch candles and some flocked trees give this buffet vignette the perfect combination of fall and winter.
The buffet itself was a DIY project that I did – make that redid – several times. 
My also redid my hutch not once, but twice! At first, I painted my hutch dark grey with chalk paint, but later decided to paint it white and update the hardware.
The chairs are vintage and were a complete gut job. We snagged them off Craigslist, and reupholstered and white waxed them.
Related: What I Wish I Knew Before Reupholstering and White Waxing our Vintage Dining Chairs and The Big Mistake I Made Using White Wax
Fortunately, Jason and I love the way the chairs turned out. They match our dining room table perfectly. This dining room table is very similar and is cheaper than the one we bought.
The wreath hanging on our hutch is actually one that I made last year. I bought the greenery and flower from Michaels and I had the grapevine wreath on hand. I love that this was something that I already made and I was able to reuse again this year. It fit the look perfectly!
I love how the burlap flower plays off the jute placemats and burlap ribbon on our artificial Christmas tree.
The silver candle holders are a fairly recent purchase. I love them so much, and I know they’ll look great in tons of stylings in the future. They’re basically my newest staple item that I’m not sure I how did without for so many years!
I hope you enjoyed this tour of my fall-to-winter holiday decor look. To finish off the tour, I’ll bring you back full circle with a more encompassing shot.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and that your home is filled with lots of love and laughter. Thanks for visiting my home!
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