As the weather cools and the leaves start to change, it’s the perfect time to bring a cozy autumn vibe into your home with some DIY projects.
Fall DIYs can help transform your space into a warm, inviting retreat filled with seasonal touches like rich colors, natural textures, and rustic accents.
From handmade wreaths and candle holders to pumpkin-themed decor and cozy blankets, these simple crafts will add charm and warmth to your home. Here are some creative and easy DIY ideas to get your space ready for autumn!
DIY Leaf Napkin Rings
Replicate these leaf napkin rings by bending aluminum wire to form a leaf and a small loop with this lovely DIY idea.
DIY Leaf Napkin Rings from Homemade by Carmona
DIY Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Pillow
Download the iron-on pumpkin spice and everything nice template to make your own decorative accent pillow perfect for your home this autumn.
DIY Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Pillow from One O
DIY Luxurious Fur Pom Pom Throw
Add a touch of luxury to your home with a fur pom pom throw perfect for those cold fall days. Earnest Home Co. cleverly designed a DIY fur pom pom throw blanket that is less than $30 to make. It will let you get the same glam look of your favorite, top-dollar home decor store for less.
DIY Luxurious Fur Pom Pom Throw from Earnest Home Co.
DIY Wood Plank Cross Stitch Fall Decor
Fall is the perfect time to add some rustic decor into your home to add a cozy feeling to your home, and this DIY project would be the perfect way to decorate your home for fall with a handmade, cross-stitched fall sign.
DIY Wood Plank Cross Stitch Fall Decor from Make It Love It
DIY Autumn Wreath Door Mat
Accessorize your front porch for fall by hanging a new wreath on your door and DIYing a new door mat with a decorative wreath pattern.
DIY Autumn Wreath Door Mat from Homemade by Carmona
DIY Embossed Autumn Leaf Candle
Enhance regular glass candleholders by stamping them with a leaf pattern to give them an elegant embossed design.
DIY Embossed Autumn Leaf Candle from Fall for DIY
DIY Wood Blanket Ladder
Add plenty of storage space in your living room for all the extra blankets you will need in the fall and winter to keep warm by building a sturdy wood blanket ladder. This ladder allows you to store several blankets vertically on the ladder’s rungs, saving space elsewhere in your home.
DIY Wood Blanket Ladder from Cherished Bliss
DIY Raw Edge Wood Slice Cake Stand
This fall, serve your homemade pumpkin or apple pies on a stunning raw edge wood slice cake stand.
DIY Raw Edge Wood Slice Cake Stand from Delia Creates
DIY Feather Drink Stirrers
While entertaining guests this fall in your home, try serving up cocktails with these DIY feather drink stirrers, which would be a special addition to mugs of warm apple cider or mulled wine.
DIY Feather Drink Stirrers from A Night Owl Blog
DIY Fringed Flannel Throw Blanket
On a cool autumn or winter day, there is nothing better than snuggling under a warm blanket and relaxing on the couch reading a book or watching Netflix. Get ready for the cooler days by making yourself a new warm flannel toss blanket to use in your home for less than $10.
DIY Fringed Flannel Throw Blanket from It’s Always Autumn
DIY Simple Lit Grapevine Wreath
This is an easy way to dress up your fireplace mantel for fall. Wrap a regular grapevine wreath with lights and place small pumpkins in front for some quick and inexpensive seasonal decor.
DIY Simple Lit Grapevine Wreath from A Bubbly Life
DIY Porch Pumpkin Flower Pots
Make your own fall planters using pumpkins with this DIY. It’s the perfect way to incorporate some pumpkins into your home’s decor this fall.
DIY Porch Pumpkin Flower Pots from I Heart Naptime
DIY Gold-Dipped Pumpkins
From the start of September right until Thanksgiving, these DIY gold dipped pumpkins are the perfect way to decorate your home for fall. For longer-lasting decor, consider using artificial pumpkins instead of real ones for this DIY project.
DIY Gold-Dipped Pumpkins from Lovely Indeed
DIY Colorful Fall Doormat
Paint your existing outdoor doormat with a variety of rich colors inspired by fall leaves to recreate this hand-painted rug.
DIY Colorful Fall Doormat from Lia Griffith
DIY Faux Fireplace Log Stack
Give the illusion of several stacked logs in your fireplace with this creative DIY faux fireplace log stack, which will add a warm and cozy feeling to your living room.
DIY Faux Fireplace Log Stack from The Decor Fix
DIY French Grain Sack Basket
Warm up after a long brisk day outdoors by relaxing next to the fireplace. This beautiful rustic French grain sack basket is a great way to display and gather wooden logs next to your fireplace. To make your own basket, you will need a coffee bag or french grain sack, twill fabric, a plastic insert, and a few other basic crafting supplies.
DIY French Grain Sack Basket from Sewing Rabbit
DIY Apple Chalkboard
Create the perfect chalkboard for fall by making an apple-shaped chalkboard to write down messages or a festive greeting on. Learn how to convert a wood slice available at craft stores into a red apple chalkboard for your home.
DIY Apple Chalkboard from A Night Owl
DIY Sweater Pillow
Instead of throwing out a sweater that you love but that no longer fits or is torn, recycle it into a gorgeous pillowcase, so you can use it as an accent pillow on your sofa.
DIY Sweater Pillow from Tidbits
DIY Pine Cone Fire Starter
Get the fire going in your fireplace in no time at all with one of these handmade scented fire starters. The wick and the wax will help your fire grow, and the scented wax will fill your home with the delicious scent of cinnamon. While you are making a batch of these fire starters, set aside a few to give to neighbors, as this fall DIY makes a great gift.
DIY Pine Cone Fire Starter from Something Turquoise
DIY Fall You Get Me Pillow
This accent pillow is perfect for fall. Altogether it costs less than $5 to make. Use iron-on transfer paper to add the text to a blank pillow.
DIY Fall You Get Me Pillow from 2 Bees in a Pod
DIY Birch Wood Planters
Dress up your home by adding a grouping of birch wood planters to your coffee table with this clever DIY. Surprisingly, these plants are not actually growing in birch logs, but recycled cans covered with birch wood scrapbooking paper to create a beautiful planter by dressing up leftover cans.
DIY Birch Wood Planters from Lolly Jane
DIY Flannel Polar Bear Pillow
Make a new pillow cover to freshen up an existing toss cushion with this DIY that is the perfect home accent from fall throughout winter.
DIY Flannel Polar Bear Pillow from Love Grows Wild
DIY Fresh Flower Centerpiece
Learn how to keep all your flowers in place in your fall flower centerpiece by using these tips from Lia Griffith.
DIY Fresh Flowers Centerpiece from Lia Griffith
DIY Rustic Fall Sign
Add rustic fall decor to your living room by gathering cut birch logs or branches of leaves in a container and creating a rustic palette–inspired fall sign to create a beautiful vignette.
DIY Rustic Fall Sign from Design Dining and Diapers
DIY Stenciled Leaf Mug
After returning home from a brisk walk outdoors on a fall day, nothing can be better than warming up with a warm fall drink. To add extra festive flair to all your fall drinks, make your own fall leaves mugs with this DIY idea that uses a stencil and a white mug.
DIY Stenciled Leaf Mug from Hands Occupied
DIY Fall Wheat Decor
Dress up your fireplace mantel by hanging a handmade rustic wheat wreath that you can make by using two colors of dried wheat.
DIY Fall Wheat Decor from Blooming Homestead
DIY Welcome Fall Bread Label
Fill your house with the deliciously spicy scents of fall by spending some time baking pumpkin bread to give to your neighbors, family, or friends. Once done, you can package your homemade loves with this free bread label that you can print and wrap around the loaf to deliver with a fall greeting.
DIY Welcome Fall Bread Label from Sister’s Suitcase
DIY Fall Greeting Card
Send a card to a friend to announce the start of pumpkin spice season and invite them to join you for some pumpkin spice lattes with this easy-to-make fall greeting card.
DIY Fall Greeting Card from Glued to My Crafts
Modern Fall Wreath
This DIY wreath incorporates florals in fall tones, making this the perfect addition to your autumn-ready home. Use faux flowers to make this last season after season, and opt for air plants and a wire wreath for a stylish, modern design.
Modern Fall Wreath from The Spruce
DIY Fall Leaves Wreath
Add some curb appeal to your home this fall with a gorgeous DIY wreath to hang on your front door by decorating a grapevine wreath with artificial leaves and berries.