Neutral Fall Decorating with Fall Leaves

I love using neutral colors to decorate for fall. Check out how many different ways you can use faux or real fall leaves!

Updated Sept 2025

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I LOVE neutral colors and I’ve always decorated for fall with neutral, even though traditionally fall is all about dark browns and oranges. I boycotted that with my purple and green fall post back in 2016. Do you remember that? Even the title said, No Orange Allowed!

I love decorating for autumn with just a few simple things like acorns and pine cones I got at the dollar store. I just put them in an ironstone dish. Not bad for $2 decor, right?

I also bought some new pillows and a throw for fall this year. They went so nicely with my two faux fur ruched pillows (20×20 inches in ivory) and the faux fur ruched throw that I bought last year.

And don’t pay any attention to my split couch. We moved it around from a sectional to a regular couch to open up the space. We will get a new couch for this space eventually but this one is so cozy we’re not ready to give it up just yet!

You can see the before and after of how we moved around my sectional couch here in this post: How to Decorate a Long, Narrow Living Room

And the full story of why this couch wasn’t even supposed to be in the living room in this post: Honest Review of Pottery Barn Slipcovers in Premium Performance Basketweave

Floral Centrepiece with Faux Fall Leaves

I made an Instagram Reel about this beautiful fall centrepiece. I love using chicken wire in a planter to keep the faux leaves from flopping over.

Just use wire cutters to cut the stems off the branch.

I put the cream rose berry stems (ball-type stems) around the outer edge with the cream maples leaves in the middle and the tan heather berry stems (fluffy looking stems) I poked in a few places around the leaves.

I also stuck some fall leaves in this concrete planter that resembles a basket (similar planter here).

I love the neutral beige and grey colors in my living room.

More Fall Leaves Inpiration – Faux and real Leaves

Right now, this photo (below) is going viral on Pinterest! It’s amazing how a simple image gets a lot of traction.

It’s from this post here: Decorating for Fall with Muted Colors

The color of these faux fall leaves are the perfect amount of ‘fall’ and right now they still say they are in stock!

The demijohn vase I got at Home Sense but I have a few vintage ones in a deeper green tone that I love.

You can learn to paint your own heirloom pumpkins by checking out this popular post of

My fall mantel from last year showcases leaves that are real. I found these leaves in my backyard and framed them. The simple leaves now look important in beautiful gold frames.

The eucalyptus and berries are faux. You can mix up real and faux anytime!

I made these fall leaves into printables! You can learn how to download them in this post: Pressed Fall Leaves Printables

Check out my Painting Pumpkins in Muted Colors post here.

This centrepiece from my fall dining room last year used more beautiful faux leaves.

Even though these fall leaves were all crinkled up, I thought I’d still bring them inside and showcase them on my dining table. It adds lots of ‘crunchy’ texture.

Check out more of my velvet pumpkin dining table.

And finally, putting an assortment of leaves and tree clippings in cloches was a dramatic and beautiful touch. You can check out the full post here: Fall Mantel Decorating with Leaves in Cloches

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I hope you enjoyed this article or post on how to decorate for fall with fall leaves AND for it to be all neutral!

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