With the arrival of autumn, finding ways to update your living space to match the new season is an excellent way to make your home festive and inviting. This can involve lighting fall-scented candles, swapping your home decor, and planting new flowers outside to match the changing colors. Here are several trends for this year to help you decide.

What Are Popular Home Decor Themes for This Fall?

1. Seasonal Candles

The quickest way to get into the fall spirit is by investing in candles with scents that match the season. Earthy fragrances, such as fresh rain, leather, and campfire smoke are popular during this time because they can add an outdoor ambiance to your indoor living space. Alternatively, if you want a more fall-inspired option, you can use pumpkin spice and cinnamon candles that make the entire home smell like you are cooking a delicious meal.

2. Textures

Mixing and matching textures and patterns helps your home resemble the changing foliage outside. For example, velvet throw pillows and flannel table runners create a beautiful contrast, making the home feel warm. Alternatively, you can use floral coasters, jute rugs, and wicker baskets filled with your favorite gourds and decor items. Getting creative with your materials will create a layered and inviting aesthetic.

3. Earth Tones

With leaves changing color outside, mimicking earth tones indoors is the perfect complement. Terracotta hues, warm browns, and shades of red and orange are the perfect pairs for neutral whites and grays. This makes your home feel like a trip through a cool forest, especially when you add pops of green and dried flowers to give the living space a natural, organic feeling.

4. Knit Blankets & Cozy Pillows

Most importantly, make sure your home decor allows your family and guests to be cozy. With the dropping temperatures, many people love to snuggle under blankets, use throw pillows, and prop their feet on ottomans, so make sure your accents have soft textures and colors. Then, install a macrame planter or wall hanging to add additional warmth to the household.

If you're looking for unique, locally made home decor that will turn your living space into a fall oasis, visit Treehouse Gift & Home in Onalaska, WI. This store has been a leading purveyor of rugs, candles, and other gifts for shoppers throughout La Crosse County since 1998. Call (608) 433-7896 to speak with a team member about your needs. Shop our website to view our seasonal collection.

You're invited for Coffee and Conversation with Linda Nevin on Saturday, Sept. 18th from 10 am - 2 pm.  Linda has been one of our best selling artists since October of 2019, and she has created several more masterpieces.  Come see all of her newest paintings. She has really branched out with new blue herons,

cattails, new pumpkins with succulents, new sunflowers, and Blue Water Birds. We're so excited for you to meet one of our best selling watercolor artists.  Linda has talked about perusing portraits in the future, and with her talent, we anticipate many more years of great art coming from this Local Artist.  Be sure to show her some of your support by stopping by the Treehouse, Saturday, Sept 18th from 10 am - 2 pm.

The right home decor can make a house feel like it's truly yours. One of the simplest and most effective ways to transform your space into a reflection of your tastes and personality is by using throw pillows. The following guide offers some tips to help you select the right options to instantly revamp any room. 

A Guide to Including Throw Pillows in Your Home Decorating

1. Color

To begin, pick a "color narrative" to guide your cushion choices. Use three different colors that come from different parts of the space, such as the wall, rug, bedding, or curtains. Ideally, the colors already featured in your space will belong to the same color family (for example, neutrals like taupe, tan, and cream) or the same style family (industrial style can include brown, gray, and black). 

2. Pattern

You can also mix and match patterns as long as each one involves at least one of the colors from your three-color narrative. It's usually easier to start with your "lead" pattern, which is typically the largest and contains all three colors in your narrative. The secondary designs you choose can then only comprise one or two of the colors. Working backward and selecting a lead design from pillows you already own is much more challenging.

3. Fill

Think about the fill of each pillow and how it will affect the overall look. For example, a feather-and-down fill has greater "give" and a softer squish. Foam and other synthetic fillers are more rigid and, in general, less expensive. These pillows will keep their shape better, but they do not have the same luxury appearance.

If you're looking for beautiful, one-of-a-kind throw pillows to transform your space, visit Treehouse Gift & Home in Onalaska, WI. For almost 25 years, this local home decor and gift shop has offered residents throughout the area over 10,000 square feet of gifts and home decor, with everything from rugs and lanterns to candles and artwork. Call (608) 433-7896 to speak with a team member today.

Come learn a new technique for creating texture when canvas painting leaves by Local Artist, Scott Archer. If you've ever tried your hand at painting, you'll find it sometimes isn't as easy as artists make it look.  Scott loves to paint seasonal art that you can enjoy in your home on the wall, or even on a bookshelf.  You'll find everything from fall bird canvases, fall leaves, acorns, and more.

Learning a new technique or two can make experimenting with a new skill and appreciating the talent in our Coulee Region fun. Come see more of Scott's art from Painted Terra Cotta Pots to beautiful Fall Canvases, original art was never easier to gift. You'll find painted fall boards as well gingerbread birdhouses by Scott Archer only at Treehouse Gift & Home.

Cinnamon Buns Recipe: 

By Bucket of Bread

After having these treats, you won't think they're just for breakfast anymore. Grab lots of napkins because you're going to want to lick your fingers. This is going to be a rich and sweet experience for your taste buds.

Serving Size:

8

Time Needed:

40 Minutes

Preparations:

Items Needed:

• Mixer

• Baking dish

• Spatula

• Rolling pin

• Parchment paper or non-stick foil

For the Buns and Filling:

• Traditional White Bucket (risen)

• 1 stick of softened butter

• 4 tablespoons of cinnamon

• 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream (lukewarm)

• 1 cup of brown sugar

For the Frosting:

• 1 stick softened butter

• 1 8-ounce pack of softened cream cheese

• 2 cups of powdered sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

Start Making Cinnamon Buns:

1. After your dough is risen and cooled in the refrigerator for at least 1/2 hour, reach in and grab a handful of dough weighing around 1 pound.

2. Using a rolling pin roll out the dough evenly.  Don't press too hard as this may force the dough to stick to the surface.  If it sticks, just gently lift it off the surface and flip it while continuing to roll it out.  If you're looking for fluffy, bread-like cinnamon rolls, you want it about 3/4-inch thick. If you want softer more gooey, chewy cinnamon rolls, get it to about 1/4-inch thick. 

3. Cut temperature appropriate parchment paper to match the shape of your baking dish and place it inside.

4. Get out the mixer and add the really soft butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar.  Mix this until everything appears moist and spreadable.

5. Spread the filling evenly onto your rolled out dough.

6. Roll the dough up into a tube shape.

7. Cut the tube into about 2 inch pieces wide and place them onto the parchment paper in the baking dish.

8. Gently and slowly pour lukewarm heavy whipping cream over each of the buns letting it fill all the nooks and crannies of the sweet spirals.  Dipping a brush into the liquid and basting these is also an effective means to get these to soak up all the cream.  

9. While the soon to be buns are bathing in cream, preheat the oven to 450 F.  

10. Clean up the mixing bowl and utensil for the frosting to be made later.

11. Once the oven is ready, place the baking dish into the oven and set a timer for 18-20 minutes (ovens vary so use your best judgement).

While Baking, Prepare the Frosting.  

1. Add the softened (almost melted) butter and cream cheese to the mixing bowl.  

2. Add the vanilla extract and lemon juice.

3. Slowly add the powdered sugar.

4. Mix until everything is smooth and silky.

When the Buns are Done:

1. BE VERY CAREFUL.  The filling will have melted a little bit and if you get this on your skin, it will burn you really badly.  It is sticky and EXTREMELY hot.

2. Carefully, removing the baking dish from the oven.

3. Let cool.

4. Cover the buns in frosting.

 

Want to add nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, or anything else–and/or other extras to the filling. What about adding chopped nuts or dark chocolate chunks (or both)? Make this recipe yours by adding your own special touch and share!