Fall Decor

There's a specific moment every year when summer starts giving way to fall, usually somewhere around the point when the evenings get shorter and you find yourself reaching for a light sweater on the porch. It's not quite time to put away the patio furniture yet, but it's close. That in-between stretch, the last few weeks of August into September, is when a lot of us start thinking ahead to how our living spaces are going to feel once we're spending more time indoors again.

If you spent the summer with windows open, furniture pushed toward the patio doors, and the living room feeling more like a pass-through to the backyard than a destination in itself, fall is the natural point to bring the room back inward. That usually means swapping out lighter textiles for something warmer, layering in a rug, and rethinking what the room's focal point should be now that outdoor time is winding down. And more often than people expect, that rethink runs straight into the television.

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