Not to Brag, But This is Our Prettiest Fall Doorway Ever

Nothing sets a come-on-in tone quite like a decked out fall doorway! Featuring plaids aplenty, this farmhouse-friendly assortment takes loose inspiration from the ubiquitous flannel finery of the season. From pumpkins to planters, here’s how to re-create this richly hued setting. (P.S. We loved it so much, it’s featured on the cover of our October issue!)

Set the Scene

Plaid Pumpkins: Use a pencil to sketch out your desired plaid patterns on pumpkins, then alternately etch and paint as shown. Tip: Acrylic paint works best.
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Bucket Blooms: Used to harvest and wash olives, slitted olive buckets make for rustic planters, as do galvanized vessels of all styles. You can also use them to give height to pumpkin piles, as seen here.

Lantern Lighting: Assorted camp lanterns add ambience come dusk. (You can fill vintage vessels with battery-operated fairy lights.)

Warm Up Your Welcome

Bittersweet Wreath: Start with a standard grapevine wreath and tuck in sprigs of dried bittersweet vines. Hang using a plaid scarf.
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Get the Look:
Front Door Paint Color: Newburyport Blue by Benjamin Moore

Flank with Foliage

Bold Branches: Tuck a vibrant gathering of leafy branches into the neck of a narrow-mouthed vessel, such as an antique French milk can, so that the branches remain full and upright. (You may have to snip some leaves off the bottom of the branches.)

Get the Look of This Fall Entry

HL Dark Galvanized Metal Square Olive Buckets

$24 at Amazon

Northpoint LED Lantern

$18 at Amazon

colorlaza Small Metal Buckets

Now 17% Off

$15 at Amazon

Vintiquewise Galvanized Metal Rustic Milk Can

$42 at Lowe's$138 at Macy's$55 at Walmart

GnFlus Artificial Oak Leaves

$15 at Amazon

Factory Direct Craft Artificial Bittersweet Branches

$30 at Amazon

Charlyne Mattox

Food and Crafts Director

Charlyne Mattox is Food and Crafts Director for Country Living.

Maribeth B Jones

Design Director

Maribeth B Jones is the Design Director of Country Living where she creates seasonal content full of warmth and playfulness. When she’s not wrangling chickens for a cover shoot you can find her collecting vintage oil portraits or flipping pancakes in her sunny, yellow kitchen with her two chatty daughters.