The spookiness of Halloween and all its decor are behind us once more. So, what’s up next? Thanksgiving, or Gratitude Day as this writer is fond of saying.
Thanksgiving is often one of those holidays that’s fraught with potential landmines leading to some degree of family strife. Here at the largest upholstery fabric store online, we’re certainly no family therapists and can’t weigh in on how to approach such matters from that perspective. But, when it comes to cultivating a space that offers a peaceful welcome? Well, that we know a lot about.
So today we’d like to give you a bit of a Thanksgiving gift. We’ll go through a range of tips and tricks to help you set your holiday up for success in your home — some simple, some more involved — all designed to create peace and harmony in your home by design. Gratefully.
Warm Up Your Home’s Thanksgiving Vibe With Inspiration From Outside
There are few holidays as specifically directed at your flavor palette as Thanksgiving. As is it turns out, that same approach is the place to begin when adding an extra helping of peace to your home’s design vibe for the occasion. Just less the flavor palette and more the color palette.
You know color evokes a feeling. For instance, in the spring and summer months, sunny, light pastels, and even neon colors offer an expansive sense of uplift just seeing them. For Thanksgiving, we’re after more of the deep comfort of coziness. Not the full-on covers-over-your-head burrow-in vibes of winter, but certainly a bit of those snuggle-up-by-the-fire-with-a-mug-full-of-piping-hot-cider vibes.
For inspiration for the right color palette to bring those feels inside your home, look outside. (Or, depending on where you live, do a quick search for “idyllic autumn scenes.”) Because just as the temperatures start requiring more layers, nature also comes offering up colors that somehow warm you to your bones and give you a deep, peaceful, cleansing breath.
We’re talking about warm tones like rusty orange, rich gold, earthy browns, deep purples, and more. If you look at some romantic autumn scene out in nature and it enchants and soothes you, then all the colors you see there are what you’re looking for when decorating your home for the holiday. That’s what’s for you and yours. *contented sigh*
Where Fabrics Can Make The Biggest Impact In Autumnal Home Decor
So that’s the palette. Delicious, right? Now let’s talk about how to use fabrics to add a bit of the leaf-peeping paradise vibe in your home and amp up the festive harmony.
First, small things.
Like cloth napkins. Elevate your table settings with custom DIY (sew or no-sew) cloth napkins. Perhaps something like harvest orange leaves and floral pattern tapestry fabric or a solid terracotta microfiber, adding a touch of magic before you even start passing the stuffing around the table.
Same with table runners. It’s amazing what an intentionally chosen runner can do for a dining table, mantle, or side and coffee tables. Try something with a classic fall foliage pattern in earthy brown shades, or something more abstract that still offers the warm colors of the season, or a simple solid autumn brown Crypton tweed. Each adds to those fabulously friendly fall vibes.
Here’s an idea both small and grand. Add fabric garland wrapped around a staircase railing or columns, or frame doorways and ceiling molding in fabric elegantly arching its way around the room, setting the scene. Sensuous fabrics here make it all the more elegant, like burgundy plush velvet, Capri green deluxe silk, or fawn beige faux silk — or all the above.
Or go bigger.
There’s the seating itself. Reupholstering for the occasion might be a bit much. But there’s always the joy of slipcovers. Simple or complex, sew or no-sew slipcovers are an excellent, easy-to-store way to truly cultivate comfort and welcome.
Dress up dining chairs in playful but simple eco-friendly spice orange striped linen or have your guests take a seat in vintage vibes with a currant-toned Nicolette pattern fabric.
A sofa becomes a supremely snuggly spot in nugget gold plush chenille or eggplant purple performance microsuede. Or make it comfortably country in gold-dust denim or classic brick red gingham linen. Either way, when the tryptophan kicks in, you’ll have a holiday-themed place to snooze.
And armchairs, slipcovered in a black, gold, and brown autumn foliage tapestry fabric, can feel like falling into a heaping pile of autumn leaves — get the same effect but a bit more subdued in a beige foliage pattern damask fabric.
All of the above tells your guests you’re so grateful they came, offering an invitation to leave the world and its troubles behind and lean into the warmth of family and friends in a space removed from it all. Now that’s something to be grateful for.
Using Decor Details To Make Thanksgiving Feel As Good As It Tastes
When it comes to adding warmth to your welcome, and peacefulness to your pad, details win the day. What kind of details? Pause to just think it through for a moment. Even better, feel it through.
Perhaps the only thing we love exploring more here than trends in interior design (and fabrics, of course) is how those trends come from people passionate about you having a home you love. In other words, the perfect vibe trend for your home comes from you.
Okay, end of TED talk. Back to adding warmth to your welcome, and peacefulness to your pad. Imagine walking into a space that immediately gives you all those feels. You’ll notice a few things:
- Lighting – Flourescent overhead lights? No, indeed, no. Lights with warm bulbs, dimmers, or string lights even. Sometimes a fireplace and candles. Think intimate.
- Nature – Bring the outside in. We already talked about the nature-inspired color palette. You can also literally bring the outside in through your decor, adding leaves, branches, pinecones, or other natural elements.
- Touch – We talked about fabrics like velvet or silk as garland on a stairway banister. Why those? Because, when you touch them, there’s a soothing feeling in the softness and texture, a calming effect. When choosing fabrics and decor pieces, choose textures that give you those kinds of feelings.
- Sound – Imagine walking into a space that’s really bringing the welcome, what does it sound like? What’s spinning on the turntable or coming through the Bluetooth? Be intentional. Give your life a soundtrack that fits the vibe and memories you’re setting the stage for. Whether that’s vintage jazz, ambient emo, country, soul, whatever. You do you. Just do it on purpose.
Stuffed full of all the ideas we’ve offered you today, we hope you and yours have the most wonderful — and peaceful — Gratitude Day yet. And whenever you need an assist in creating your home’s Thanksgiving decor special sauce we’re here and we’re happy (and grateful) to help.