Looking for a quick and easy idea to decorate your table for fall? Create easy fall table decor with pumpkins as a quick centerpiece. Use vintage items like a grain sack and breadboard to add volume to your fall table decoration. Pumpkins are the perfect accessories for your fall home decor.
Who doesn’t decorate with pumpkins in the fall? You can go totally overboard and add pumpkins everywhere, or you can make a super easy and quick centerpiece in 15 minutes and call it a day.
Super Easy Fall Table Decor With Pumpkins
I love decorating for fall. I also like to go for easy DIY fall decorations I can pull together in an afternoon. My fall table decor with pumpkins fits that idea perfectly because it was super easy to create. One large heirloom pumpkin as a focal point, and a few smaller painted pumpkins for fun scattered on the table.
I anchored the centerpiece on a vintage breadboard. It serves as a tray to hold a small collection of fall accessories together.
Another star on this fall table is a vintage grain sack runner. It gives instant rustic glam to my table and was such an easy DIY project.
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I had a lucky find the other day. I found a couple of vintage grain sacks in great condition. The sacks are obviously very old, but the wear and tear seem to be minimal.
Minimal is also the work I put in to turn these antique grain sacks into a table runner for my fall table.
Most grain sacks are basically one long piece of fabric with side seams. It is very uncommon for them to have a bottom seam.
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How to Make a Table Runner From a Vintage Grain Sack
Turning an old grain sack into a table runner usually only requires picking the side seam and ironing out the bottom crease.
That’s it: from grain sack to grain sack table runner in a flash.
With a nice table runner like this, fall decorating becomes very easy (and I love me some easy fall decorating!). My no-sew grain sack runner is dressing up my newly painted farmhouse table. The runner provides the perfect backdrop for some scattered fall decorations. With a great base like that, it is best to keep the rest of the decor pretty laid back. After all, we want that grain sack runner to shine.
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Easy Pumpkins Table Decor Idea
My pumpkin table decor is centered around the big heirloom pumpkin I found at a local farm. I love the soft, muted color of this grey-green pumpkin.
I choose to let it be the star of my simple fall table decor with pumpkins.
I placed it on a breadboard to anchor it and define a space around it. A few twigs with berries and a mini antler emphasize the fall mood I am going for.
That same vintage breadboard was an important part of my farmhouse fall mantel, it provided the perfect layered background then.
Scattered on the table are small painted white pumpkins, candlesticks, and little votive holders with a burlap wrap, as well as some fresh flowers.
The grain sack runner keeps it all together and adds its own special rustic flair to this fall table.
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The breadboard was another recent thrifting find, I had been on the lookout for breadboards for some time now, and then I found two in one week, go figure. I have hit a dry spell again, though. Pity because I definitely have room for more vintage breadboards in my life. Hoping to score a round one next.
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PS Do you spot that green glass fall decor in the background? If you want a closer look, you can find my vintage glass jars fall decoration here.
So are you still in a fall mood? Got the pumpkins still out? Or have you started decorating for Christmas, for real?
And what do you think about my grain sack table runner? Great find that one, isn’t it?
Marianne Songbird is the founder of Songbird, where she hopes to inspire everyone to create a home they love, one DIY project at a time. She shares anything from craft ideas to home decor inspiration and from DIY projects to decorating hacks. Originally from the Netherlands Marianne and her husband Lex are currently renovating a 250-year-old farmhouse in Germany.
Tone says
Hi! Youre picturea are like candy To my eyes! I have been looking for grainsacks the last week allso, but the they arent easy to find in Norway either. I just have to stay on the lookout for something online:)
We still havent seen any snow yet! You would believe its still september/october. Hopefully winter and snow will come in good time `til christmas:)
Marianne@Songbird says
Oh, how kind, thank you!
No snow here either, but we usually don’t expect it until January or so. Seems like the US are getting all the cold again, leaving us with warm weather. Poor US, happy us.
Ellen V says
I live in the Midwest of the USA. We have snow and cold but it will get my rear in gear for Christmas. Just an inch or a little more. Very pretty and drive able for shopping. Love your blue and white. The runner is beautiful.
Marianne@Songbird says
Oh yes, I heard that winter has come down on you guys early and hard already. Glad to hear that you can still get around, being snowed in is not as much fun as it sounds (at least not for a long time).
Thanks for the runner love, I am very happy with it myself.
Marilyn says
Hi Marianne, It’s sunny here in the mountains of southern California, but cool temperatures (low 50’s F.) No snow here yet. I don’t like to decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving, which is always the fourth Thursday in November. Until then, we are decorated for Fall, with our pumpkins still out. Yes, your table runner was a real find. It looks great on your lovely white table. Best wishes for your new five day work week!
Marianne@Songbird says
Hi Marilyn,
Oh the mountains of Southern California, that sounds absolutely wonderful. Temps will be dropping here too, but no snow in sight.
If I didn’t have a blog, I wouldn’t be decorating for a few weeks either. As it is I can’t keep up with the pace in blogland anyway, but I do not want to fall to far behind. Besides with only the weekends to my disposal, I had to get some of my Christmas crafting and decorating in early, or I wouldn’t be able to do it at all. And we can’t have that I love decorating for Christmas.
Sue says
i live in central Alabama, USA. I just found your blog and I really love it. I’m a big fan of decorating with all shades of white with some blue thrown in. The table runner looks wonderful you were lucky for that fine. I going to be looking on your shop just in case you put one of the others on to sale. You know we say ya’ll here in the south was great to here it from you. Have a great day!!
Marianne@Songbird says
Hi Sue, Welcome to my blog. So glad you found me. I spent my summer in the South of the States last year. And some of that y’all just rubbed off on me. Guess that is the beauty of being a non-native English blogger, I steal, borrow and abuse bits and pieces of your language from all over the place. It is all foreign to me anyway. 😉
Glad to have your here, hope to hear from you more often.
Fonda Rush says
I would prefer that you keep it real. If the sun is at an odd angle, it is true AND at an odd angle. It is the product of where you live. I’m not out here measuring the angle of the sun or the amount of grayness there is in your living room. It’s the content that counts. It’s the way you write about it and share. While I will never know for sure that you photograph Christmas is July, I would prefer that you didn’t. I want you to keep it real. I want to see what Christmas looks like where you live. I seriously doubt that anyone will leave your blog for this perceived infraction. I do think that people would leave if they found that you were a fake. No one likes to be fooled. For example, I follow a blog in Australia where it is spring. If she decides that what her audience wants is to see snow on the ground and takes her photos in July during a snow storm, I would feel deceived and would call her on it. So, keep it real, and don’t assume that what I want to see must have ideal lighting. And, don’t apologize for it. Keep. It. Real.
Marianne@Songbird says
Hi Fonda.
Oh that is sweet of you to say. I am all about keeping it real too, within limits of course, no need to bother you all with my messy Mount Washmore, I am sure you have enough of that in your own home.
And don’t worry, frustration might have me wishing I did my Christmas picture taking in July, it will never happen. For one thing I am not that organized, and I am much too lazy for it too. So yes I’ll be keeping it real, working with the light (or absence of it) that is available. But you can’t blame me for trying to make every shot as good as I can get it. That is my personal challenge after all.
Emilou says
Hi Marianne, wow, I love your table decorations and the grain sack runner sure adds such a pleasing touch.
Yes I still have my pumpkins, orange lights and colorful leaves about. I don’t decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. As for my weather here in Oregon, it is cold at night with -2 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 26 degrees Fahrenheit during the days. Brrr, and we still have at least half of our last Thursday snowfall of 16 inches. It is beautiful and I love it since I don’t have to drive in it 🙂 Thanks for sharing and I hope that your five day work week will be good for you. Blessings and smiles, Emilou 🙂
Darrielle Tennenbaum says
Everything looks so peaceful and calm-love your look!