Today I have two exciting things: one, I’m sharing my Fall tablescape and I’m hosting and participating in a Fall tablescape blog hop as part of the “It’s a Wonderful House” blog tours! We did this series last Fall and Christmas and it was fun and successful! Tons of beautiful tablescape inspiration for you today!

So let’s get started! This year I was inspired by green and white.  Perhaps it is because our Summer was full of browns here in California.

For years we didn’t really decorate for Fall because the traditional Fall colors didn’t really match the colors of our home.  No offense to bright orange found in pumpkins, but it just doesn’t really go in my house. 

Then in recent years these fairytale pumpkins started showing up at farm stands and markets and it opened up an opportunity to use pumpkins that were not just orange!

Not that I’m poo-pooing orange all together.  Last year I decorated my table with blues and oranges.  This year I went to the opposite side of the color wheel and headed to the greens.

Each place setting has a Juliska dinner plate, a green antique Majolica plate (similar), and a Staub pumpkin cocotte.

We love using these pumpkin cocottes in the Fall for soups and stews.

I actually had a dream about this table: I used my green majolica plates in a table setting.  The centerpiece in my dream was TBD, but I woke up and ran with it!   

For the centerpiece, I picked some olive branches from the garden.  How cute are the little olives?  I recommend using any sort of greenery from your garden.  I was originally going to use grapevines, but they were destroyed by white flies this year.  So I started eyeing the other plants in the garden and clipped a few olive tree branches.

I also found some curious pieces of squash at the local farm stand – in green and white!  I dug through their big flat of odd squash to find the perfect colors.

These blue/green pumpkins are fairytale pumpkins, the variety is Jarrahdale.  They came from a local farm, but in previous years I have been able to grow my own.   This year we planted our own patch – 13 plants to be exact.  So far only 4 pumpkins have grown, two of which were these white baby boo pumpkins here.   I don’t think we watered them enough and then they got attacked by white flies.

You can look past just green and white for nontraditional Fall decorating.  When you look at the color palette for Fall, it is actually a whole rainbow of colors.

There are oranges, yellows, and reds, yes that’s obvious.  But look closer… the leaves still have green, as do pears and apples.   There are jewel tones – look at the figs and plums.  I wrote a post here about using pinks for Fall.  Metallics also go very well with Fall decor!  There are shades of brown from wheat and drying grasses. You can paint your own pumpkins to get the color you want – there are tons of tutorials on Pinterest.  Can’t find a color you like? Velvet pumpkins come in a variety of colors too.

Look to your own garden for Fall table decor. I’m sure you can find something to bring in and use on the table! And if you want the easiest way of using non traditional colors on your Fall table, just create a floral arrangement of whatever you desire and then throw a few white pumpkins on it!

That concludes my Fall tablescape tour.

Now, next up on the “It’s a Wonderful House” Fall tours is Wanda at From House to Home. I know you will love her pale pink and grey table!

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