Falling For Neutrals

Hi, my name is Jenna, and I have a decorating problem.

No, seriously. I decorate. A lot. For every season. In fact, I've designed our apartment with a fairly neutral color scheme in order to maximize my seasonal decorating potential. At Christmas time, I completely dismantle my parents' house and design each room according to a different theme. I take on difficult, time consuming craft projects. I fold napkins into swans.

During the summer, I scour stores for beach-y accessories and spend hours collecting rocks and sea glass on the beach. But now that Fall is (officially, if not in actuality) here, I start to think of throw blankets and spangled pumpkins, faux spiderwebs and apple centerpieces. Usually I gravitate towards your standard vivid oranges and reds, but this year, thanks to some stellar inspiration from the Pottery Barn catalog, I'm considering a more grown-up approach: sophisticated creams and neutrals, with sages and nectarines thrown in. And of course, mercury glass. So much mercury glass.

We'll start with a wall lined with antique plates, and a mantlepiece overflowing with pumpkins made of rattan and the aforementioned mercury glass.


{Via Pottery Barn.}

Add in antlers, birch candles, and some more pumpkins (sea urchin-hued, this time.)


{Via Pottery Barn.}


{Via Pottery Barn.}

Just for fun, some silver candlesticks and tea-soaked parchment paper.

{Via Pottery Barn.}

And finish up with a healthy helping of Midnight Black to up the Poe factor.


{Via Pottery Barn.}


{Via Martha Stewart. Loving that green wall.}