Small Apartment Fall Living Room Tour
It’s opening day for the Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tour 2022! And today, I’m sharing my small apartment fall living room tour!
SMALL APARTMENT FALL LIVING ROOM TOUR
Welcome to the Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tour 2022, hosted by my sweet friend Kelly from The Tattered Pew!
If you’ve arrived from StoneGable, welcome! Yvonne is a dear friend and I often call her my decorating hero! When My Wee Abode grows up, it wants to be the mini-version of StoneGable. 😉
If you’re new to My Wee Abode, I’m Julie… a single-again-mom and now a grandma ALMOST 6 times over! My daughter and son-in-love have a boy-girl-boy, and my son and daughter-in-love have a boy-girl-soon-to-be-boy. We are looking forward to this gift from God in March 2023! If you want to learn more about My Wee Abode (or even me) you can start on my About Page.
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Now, let’s get started on the tour!
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SMALL APARTMENT LIVING ROOM TOUR – The Entryway
Today, not only am I sharing my living room and entryway, but FIVE more of my blogging buddies are sharing their homes, too!
And, throughout this week be sure to come back to this post to find links to all my friends’ homes! The links will be updated each day, Monday through Friday… You won’t want to miss all the inspo!
But for now, let me welcome you to my home…
The entry way got a bit of an edit from last month’s Pinterest Challenge. Though I loved the look for the challenge, it was just a bit too much for me for the whole season.
Can you say “simple and minimal”? That’s what I’m aiming for this season.
The little storage bench where we sit and slip our shoes on-and-off was relocated to just under the kitchen bar.
It’s taking some courage to share a bit of my kitchen in the background, as I’m having a hard time with the faux golden oak cabinets, that clash with the ash LVP. It actually keeps me up at night… thinking and re-thinking about what I can do to end the love-hate-relationship I have with these ugly cabinets. (Any suggestions are welcome!)
The cabinets are really the only thing I don’t like about My Wee Abode. I’m SUPER thankful for a very wide entryway that allows us to switch-up things now and then. It also affords easy maneuverability for Mom, as she uses a walker.
Small Apartment Fall Living Room Tour – The “Buffet”
During the Bloggers’ Best Summer Home Tour, the new My Wee Abode was “introduced”. At that time, I shared how I had turned my portable kitchen cart/island into a coffee station.
Since then, Prime Day happened, and I ended up purchasing a new coffee maker which didn’t fit on the cart any longer. So my Keurig K-Slim Coffee Maker found a new home on the kitchen counter, and my kitchen cart is now a buffet/sideboard.
Using this cart for storage and seasonal decor is so fun! And when we have company, it doubles for serving space!
Adding touches of copper and wood is a simple way to dress-up an area for the fall season.
This wooden pear and shiny copper-look acorn are faves each fall at MWA. And the pretty little copper coffee art templates have never been used… at least not for making coffee. They are just pretty copper ‘trinkets’.
Small Apartment Fall Tour -Dining Area
Okay… I know this was SUPPOSED to be about My Wee Abode’s fall living room decor. However, it’s a bit difficult to separate areas in my “open-concept” apartment.
So, here’s a peek at the dining area. Not much has changed since the summer tour, except that my DIY fall wood leaf garland is now on display.
This was a fun project I did a couple years back, and displaying already-owned decorative items in different areas of the home is a great money-saver… like here on the dining room table/office desk.
If you want to make your own wood leaf garland, and can’t find these at HL, take a gander at this Etsy shop. I purchased some wood leaves from this store for a new project I’m working on for this season!
Small Apartment Fall Living Room Tour – NOW the Living Room!
Now we have ACTUALLY arrived in the living area!
The living area is much bigger than than the loft apartment. In fact, it’s so much bigger that, Lord-willing, this will be the last time you see my beloved sand-colored love seat in a home tour!
As the pillow says, “Be Grateful”, and I’m excited AND grateful that we have a new sofa scheduled to be delivered at the end of October/beginning of November. (So, I’m thinkin’ you just MIGHT see the loveseat *one* more time!)
The buffalo check pillow and the ‘be grateful’ pillow were purchased from Sutton Place Designs. The quality is great, and I love supporting fellow bloggers and small businesses by purchasing from their online stores! (And, all items in her store happen to be on sale right now!)
Want to keep things simple? Simply trade-out your faux stems each season. All I did for the decor on this side table was to change out the yellow stems from summer for these autumn stems. Easy peasy!
The DIY IKEA Cabinet Hack
The IKEA Cabinet I hacked last year is a fave of mine. Not only is it fun to decorate, but you would never guess how much DIY ‘stuff’ is stashed behind those pretty caned doors!
The wooden pedestal bowl that I gifted myself last year when I visited Yvonne in Lancaster, PA, has become a ‘staple’ decor item at MWA.
Just placing one bowl with a few simple ‘natural’ fall elements is easy and, for me, minimal. 🙂
Adding Fall Decor to Your Coffee Table
This coffee table just might end up being ‘dwarfed’ by the new sofa… but for now, it works well in our little apartment decorated for fall.
Natural weaved and braided pumpkins are all the rage this season… I dare you to count how many you will find throughout this week’s tour! (Be sure to come back and tell me in the comments!)
I found this 8″ woven pumpkin at Michael’s, and it’s still on sale!
Use fall colored hydrangeas with some faux wheat placed here-and-there in an olive bucket, and you have a lovely fall arrangement!
Decorating for Fall Around the TV
Learning how to decorate this long and low-setting media console has been a bit of a challenge.
All of my efforts to go extremely minimal this season just didn’t look right for the console.
The two ends were decorated as shown, but, at first, I didn’t have the garland added. After a couple days, my *mom* actually said, “Do you have a garland you could add to the front?” Then I remembered the faux bittersweet garland I had purchased last year!
The compromise was, it was added to the *back* of the console. 😉
Using amber bottles is a great way to add warmth and welcome the fall season to your home. Plus, a couple sweet little neutral pumpkins always helps!
The candle holders on the right were a new purchase from Hobby Lobby, but you can find all kinds of wooden pillar holders on Amazon, too!
Instead of candles, you can add other fall elements to pillar candle holders, like my DIY candle rings and these all-time fave DIY velvet pumpkins (I even share a secret for how to make these look like the pros!)
And just for fun… I liked how this photo came out!
Keepin’ It Real with a Small Apartment Fall Living Room Tour
Here’ a last look from a different angle of our little apartment…
Again… just keepin’ it real, sweet friends. Mom’s recliner is not the prettiest piece of furniture, and it wouldn’t be my first choice if I were living by myself. However, Mom needs a comfortable place to sit and be able to elevate her feet, and it must be close enough to her room and bathroom.
Plus, I want her to be able to look out our slider and see the wonderful gardens and trees in our community!
The gray corduroy fabric on the recliner will coordinate MUCH better with the new sofa, too! 😉
Now Let’s Hop!
I hope my small apartment fall living room tour inspired you, and perhaps you learned something new, as well!
Now, it’s time for you to hop on over to She Gave It a Go! You’re going to LOVE Brendt’s style, plus, she is a lovely woman, inside-and-out! (A fellow sister in the Lord!)
And don’t forget to come back each day this week to be inspired by all the wonderful bloggers listed below!
Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tours
This week I am joining some of my blogging friends for the Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tours. Thirty talented and creative women will be opening their homes up for you to tour all week long. You can visit each fall home tour by clicking the links below.
Monday’s Tours
The Tattered Pew // StoneGable // My Wee Abode
She Gave It a Go // Cottage In the Mitten // Simply2Moms
Tuesday’s Tours
Midwest Life and Style // Willow Bloom Home Blog // Bricks n’ Blooms
Cottage On Bunker Hill // Peacock Ridge Farm // Open Doors Open Hearts
Wednesday’s Tours
White Lilac Farmhouse // The Ponds Farmhouse // Eleanor Rose Home
Amy Sadler Designs // Shiplap and Shells // White Arrows Home
Thursday’s Tours
My Thrift Store Addiction // County Road 407 // Thistle Key Lane
Cloches and Lavender // My Family Thyme // Tatertots & Jello
Friday’s Tours
Le Cultivateur // Southern Home and Hospitality // DIY Beautify
WM Design House // A Life Unfolding // Dabbling and Decorating
Julie,
What a lovely home tour; everything looks so bright and welcoming.
I especially love the DIY fall garland you shared in your dining room, and the living room area gives me all the heart eyes too.
Thank you for your kind words; it’s a joy to be on this tour with you!
Fall blessings, xoxo,
Brendt
You are so welcome, Brendt. And thank YOU for the encouraging comment! Hugs!
I’m loving all the cozy fall touches you’ve added to your home, Julie! We’re suckers for amber glass and yours is all so pretty. That footed bowl from Lancaster is truly a treasure! Pinned!
Thank you, Anne! Yes, that bowl brings all kinds of wonderful emotions when I look at it! 😉
SO wonderful Julie – you and Mom must be so comfy there, and you’ve done a lovely job of making it chic and minimal! Good luck with your cabinets, but they actually look great with your fall decor! 🙂 Take care and thanks for more of your beautiful inspiration!
You are always such an awesome encourager! Thank you for making me feel good about the cabinets, even for a brief moment! 😉
Julie,
I love all the fall touches you have added to your home. The FALL garland is adorable. I’m checking with HL.
Thanks, Rachel! It’s always evolving, our homes, right? Hugs, and hope you find the leaves at HL!
Julie,
You shared so many great tips for small space living. You’ve done a great job of creating light and airy rooms by adding charming focal points. I especially love your bottle of floral stems–beautiful! Pinned! Blessings, Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction
Thank you, Cecilia. 🙂 I’m def going for a light and airy look, so you blessed me by saying that! Hugs!
It’s beautiful, Julie! God gave you a talent for making a lovely and inviting home as well as inspiring others to do the same.
Thanks for sharing your new digs,
Suzanne from PA
Oh, thank you so much, Suzanne! You made my day! AND… I LOVE PA!!!!
So many pretty decor touches for fall! Your pear and copper acorn are perfect. Happy to tour with you today and happy fall, my friend!💛
Thank, Kim… I love those pieces, too!
Julie I loved taking your Fall tour! I enjoyed finding out where you got your decor from and how you are always thoughtful about your mom. She is so lucky to have you with her! As for your cabinets that’s a tough one, could you cover them with contact paper? Or add a rug to the floor to break up all of the dame color? Just a few thoughts. I’m sure you will figure it out. Pinning!
Thanks so much for always thinking of me for your tours, Kelly. As far as contact paper… that was my first choice. But the wood is not real. It’s like a contact paper, as well… old contact paper. I tried testing a spot, and it lifted the finish right off! I’m tempted to paint them, and forfeit our small deposit? But, I’m a little skeered, to be honest!
Everything is beautiful, Julie! I love the neutral colors and some of the subtle pops of blue. Great minds.😘 Happy to be hopping with you this week. Pinned!
Yes… I LOVED your blue accents in your home! And always love touring with you, dear friend!
I’m loving the simple and minimalist fall decor this year Julie! Decorating with someone else’s needs in mind makes all the difference. You’ve created a lovely space that your mom is happy and comfortable in, making her life that much better. Hugs to you both!
Thank you, dear friend! We need to chat soon!
Julie your home is beautiful. I love all of the fall touches you added with the natural decor and amber accents. You’ve created a wonderful home for you and your mom. Enjoy your fall! 🍂
Thanks so much, Stacy! You are too kind!
Pretty touches fall fall Julie. It’s great the piece acts as a buffet now. That’s a great amount of extra room.
I love all the details and remember the fall garland.
Amber glass is perfect for fall .
Great touring with you
Thanks, Cindy! Yes… I really want to keep the cart as long as I can. It’s a really great piece!
Beautiful Julie! It’s been such fun watching you make your new place your own! Happy Fall to you!
Thank you so much, Denise! It’s been fun. Now if I could just get my bedroom in order! Workin’ on it!
Julie, you’ve incorporated several really pretty accessories into your fall decor. Love the copper acorn and the pretty pillows. Hope you enjoy your new wee abode this fall.
Thank you so much, Carol! It’s been fun decorating!
Julie! I could talk about how much I love your Fall decor (which I do) I could go on and on about your velvet pumpkins, and the leaf garland, or your gorgeous pedestal bowl you go in PA, but in real life the part of your tour that was the cherry on top was the “Keepin’ it Real”. We all have those things about our home that aren’t what we would consider aesthetically pleasing, but they are functional and the function is more important than a beautiful chair that Mom hates because it’s not comfy. You’re the best!! Authentic and Genuine through and through!! Always love hanging out with you friend!!! Happy Fall!!
Thank you, my friend! You made my day! BIG HUGS!
Great job decorating your home but still making it uncluttered. Great ideas on making your crafts. Hope your mom is feeling better. It’s a very stressful job taking care of your mom and so glad you have help. Hope you and your mom have a great life together making memories!!
Julie, I love the wood tones and natural elements in your fall decorations. The umbrella basket looks so beautiful with those yellow leave branches and pods. It pops in the entrance way.
Thanks, Tammy! It was so fun touring with you!
Congrats to your family! So exciting to be adding a 6th grandbaby soon. Pinned!
Thanks, Jennifer!
Beautiful job decorating your home for Fall. That blue pumpkin is so pretty.
Yeah… I love that pumpkin, too! And so does my 10-month-old grandson! 😉
Julie, your home looks beautiful! You have such an eye for detail. And I love that IKEA cabinet hack. I’ve been eyeing that IKEA piece for a while and I absolutely love what you did with it. Happy Fall!
Thanks, Shawna! I love that cabinet. It worked out exactly how I wanted it (I MIGHT fill the holes still!)
It makes me so happy knowing that you and your mom are comfy and cozy in your beautiful apartment. And how exciting that you’re going to be a grandma yet again. Congratulations! I’m loving the wood tones and natural elements for fall. And those amber bottles are gorgeous. Happy Fall my friend!
Thank you so much, Kim! And thanks for the congrats! We are excited for sure!
Such a darling apartment Julie. I love how you have added fun touches of fall here and there. Congrats on the new baby. Isn’t being a grandma the best?
Thanks, Wendy… and, YES, being a grandma is AMAZING!
Julie – your home is so lovely! I adore your cute entryway and all of the thoughtflu fall details. That wood pear is so cute and I love the rattan pumpkin! I pinned your beautiful home to my fall board to share 🙂
xoxo
Thanks, Jen! Appreciate you so much!
I love how you’ve taken your small space and given it such so much fall character, Julie! You have added the perfect amount of fall colors and touches to your home.
Thanks, Rachel! It was fun adding the fall elements, and I have more DIYs coming, too!
Girl, fall looks good on you. Which means your apartment of course. 😉 Love the warm, inviting environment you’ve shared. And my goodness, I adore all those white serving pieces you have displayed everywhere! It’s always good to hop with you. Happy Fall friend!
Right back at ya, my friend! Happy fall!
Everything is just lovely my friend! Happy Fall!
Thanks, Libbie! Hugs!
What a beautiful fall home you have created for you and your sweet mom! It all looks so warm and welcoming! I love the wood tones, the copper, and that rattan pumpkin is gorgeous. Happy Fall, my friend!
Thanks, Lynne… We are enjoying the home as much as we can. 🙂
Hi Julie, your small apartment is beautiful and super cozy, even the recliner is cozy! I would recommend adding a rug in your kitchen space, maybe a runner, so that the eye will be drawn away from the contrast between your cabinets and the floor. I follow a colorist Maria Killam and she has lots of great advice and tricks on how to fool the eye with decorating when you cannot change certain things. Enjoy the fall weather.
I’ll have to look Maria up, Mary! Thanks for the tip… it’s a great idea and something I would DEFINITELY do, except I have to limit the rugs in our home as they are tripping hazards for Mom. She doesn’t use the sofa, so the rug in the living area has not been an issue. But, I may think about an entryway rug again!
Beautiful tour, Julie! I especially love the copper accents, coffee table decor and amber glass. Everything came together so nicely to give some cozy fall feels, and I love your minimalist touch and the great DIYs you throw in. Pinning!
Thank you, Crissy! Waiting on that new sofa! Then I’ll need to do a few other things!
Julie, you have so many cute fall vignettes in your home! I absolutely LOVE the wood pear with the copper stem/leaf, and your IKEA cabinet hack with the cane doors is beautiful! And I am totally one to move and repurpose furniture all over my home! It’s been happening this week in fact 😉 So fun to tour with you again! Happy Fall! xx
Thanks, Cindy! You are so sweet!
Such a sweet and cozy space Julie! I’m sure you miss it but I love your new place too! Happy Fall!