If you’re a long time TIR follower, you know I’ve always described Fall Nesting as a mindset.
It’s an opportunity to evolve our home and daily rituals.
Fall Nesting is an invitation to create a home at a pace that is both comfortable and inspiring to us.
We won’t waste a minute rushing through it or worrying about the next season. We will focus on ways to be more present so we can enjoy the season we’re in.
Fall Nesting is about paying more attention to how our home feels to be in it every day, not just how quickly or perfectly we can get it decorated.
Fall Nesting is about NOT letting ourselves feel rushed or pressured or lacking by comparison to anyone else at all.
Just as we can sense the slow natural evolution of the seasons outside, the seasonal evolution in our home should unfold.
Even if you don’t have a fall season where you live or it’s still 100 degrees where you are, just use your imagination to prepare your mind for this season in your home.
Picture the crisp autumn air wafting through your window and the cool breezes blowing through the trees on fall evenings.
Imagine the leaves starting to change color and the sound they make crunching under your feet as they fall to the ground.
Fall Nesting doesn’t depend on what you see outside your door, it’s about what you long to feel on the inside.
Let yourself take a deep breath. IWe have time.
With Fall Nesting, we slowwww down and keep the frantic pace and expectations set by the rest of the world outside our door.
When we cross the threshold of our home, all that matters is what inspires and comforts us and our family.
Fall Nesting is about fully savoring the season and falling more in love with our home a little more every day.
What are some of your favorite things about fall? Share 20 little things you love about fall in the comments or show us on Instagram! Follow and tag me @theinspiredroom and use the hashtag! #fallnesting … I’ll be regramming some of what you share on my stories!
13 little autumn joys I just can’t get enough of …
http://www.lindastoll.net/2016/10/in-which-i-sift-through-autumns.html?m=1
Love your autumn joys!! ???
Absolutely loved your website. Your photos were so simple, so elegant, and so pretty!! Thank you for sharing.
In no particular order :)
Starting a fall reading book list
Knitting a new scarf
Making all our favorite cold weather soups
Dutch oven cooking pretty much every night
Simmering my favorite fall spices with apples and oranges on the stove-top for the best potpourri
Pie baking
Instead of mailing Christmas cards, we mail Thanksgiving cards..I LOVE writing our family letter for this.
Plaid throws all around the house
Apple cider and donuts
Listening to my Fall Playlist pretty much on repeat
Looking through all the fall magazines, old and new
Lots of copper accents in the kitchen
Layering the bedrooms with tons of texture and fall “feels”
Loading up the bathrooms with warm scented lotions, soaps, and reed diffusers
Seeded eucalyptus all over the place
Finding the perfect new fall coffee mug
Using all the cute fall emojis for texting (silly, I know! lol)
The pumpkin patch
Smell of wood burning fireplaces
Prepping our deck for fall night entertaining
Happy fall nesting!
Love it all!!!! ???? Thank you for sharing!
I am lucky enough to live at the beach. Fall is not popular here because we don’t want beach weather to end. However, I love Fall. It’s the one season besides Christmas I don’t mind investing in. I love that Fall decor is in season for 2-3 months. It’s warmth gets me into the kitchen cooking and baking. In two weeks the decor will come out!
Sounds like a dream! I feel the same way!
1. Cooler weather (at least a slight break from the 90s….I live in Florida)
2. Opening the house (less AC)
3. Fall vegetables
4. Homemade soups!
5. More outside entertaining
6. Candle light
7. Throws on couches and beds (more layers)
8. Seeing deer in my neighborhood
9. Changing my door wreath
10. My maples dropping their leaves
11. Walking on the beach in jeans … with less people around
12. My seasonal trip to NC to see the leaves change
13. Occasional fires
14. The return of my favorite tv shows
15. Deeper colors in pillows and throws
16. Fall flowers in vases on kitchen counter
17. Less lawn mowing!
18. Pumpkins ?
19. Exercising outside again!
20. Boots, jeans, and sweaters!
Pumpkins, Pumpkins Pumpkins in all shapes, colors and sizes!!
Walking through crisp fallen leaves ?
The faint smell of wood smoke on the breeze
Coats, gloves, hats and scarves
Comfort food and a night by the hearth
Boo for technical difficulties
Hooray for overcoming them
I will admit that I am not a fan of the fall. However, I live near an orchard that does a fall celebration up big-time. My absolute favorite thing whenever I visit during the autumn is enjoying a fresh cider slushy!!!
https://mapleside.com/fallfestivals
Quieter times with family, less busy schedules, smell of wood burning fireplace and fire pit, being chilly and putting on more cozy layers (can only take off so many clothes when it’s too hot then still hot!, snuggling my warm fur babies, hot stews and soups simmering, beautiful autumn colors in the woods
Football, football, football – Go Dawgs!
Starbuck’s pumpkin spice lattes
Toasting marshmallows and drinking wine around the fire pit
The smell of wood smoke
Pumpkin snickerdoodles
Wearing jeans and real shoes – not just flip flops
Driving to gorgeous NC to see the fall foliage
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This will be the first year that I follow along! I’m looking forward to your Fall cozy posts!
Fall is the best of every season I think