Living Room Shelf Decor Ideas: Pumpkin Decorations For Fall

All of the sources for the items shown in the photos are linked at the very bottom of the post for your convenience!
Do you ever have a bad day? Ok, that’s a trick question because I KNOW you know what it is like to have a bad day.
Well, I was sitting around watching TV and all in all just having a crummy day. I flipped over to scroll mindlessly through Instagram and BAM! Inspiration struck.
I saw one of my good friends, Haute House Love, getting her house all set up for Fall. She was getting ALL of her pumpkin decorations for Fall and out and arranging her mantels.
And then I remembered about a big box of fall decorations I had out in the garage.
So….out to the garage, I went. I found about 75% of the decor that I was looking for and got to work rearranging my living room shelves.
Spoiler alert – it totally turned my day around!
Related: Check out these other Fall posts too!
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- White Pumpkin Decor (made from cheap foam pumpkins)
- DIY Fall Pumpkin Crafts
- Budget Friendly Fall Table Decorations To Create Rustic Fall Tablescape
- Fall Farmhouse Finds from T.J.Maxx
- 25 Free Fall Printables
- 17 Fall Decorating Ideas For Outside
- Leather Sign: Thankful Grateful Blessed Pallet Wood Sign
- Fall Pregnancy Announcement
- Toddler Halloween Costume Ideas
- Cheap Halloween Porch Decorations with Recycled Materials
First of all, if you are looking for living room shelf ideas and you are totally stumped on how to decorate shelves – I have a whole post about shelf styling basics here.
I started by taking almost everything off of my living room shelves and giving them a good cleaning.
Next, I got all of the fall stuff out and laid it out so I could see what I was working with. Then after trying a million different combinations and pulling stuff from other areas of my house… I landed on this!
This living room shelf ideas post contains affiliate links, but nothing that I wouldn’t wholeheartedly recommend anyway! Read my full disclosure here.
Fall Themed Living Room Shelf Decor with Pumpkins

I kept things pretty neutral by incorporating both real and faux white pumpkins and faux greenery.
I kept the bottom shelf completely the same as when I styled the living room shelves for this post.
I also kept all of my vintage books on the shelves but flipped them around so the pages are out to bring in the more neutral tones.
This wooden dough bowl is perfect for holding ALL of the cute mini pumpkins, scented pinecones that smell AMAZING, and some pieces of faux greenery (mostly lambs ear).
I stumbled upon this amazing wooden dough bowl at an estate sale a couple of years ago, but here are some great ones from Etsy if you are looking for one!
I couldn’t resist putting a funny quote for fall on my new wooden letterboard (similar linked here), which is just the perfect color and fits right in with these pumpkin decorations for fall.
Do you love letter boards too? Check out these fun fall & Halloween letter board quote ideas!
My vintage scale also stayed put on the living room shelves and was easy to switch over to fall but adding some pumpkins and switching the green wreath out for a cute cotton one.
Can you believe these wood beads that TOTALLY look like a wood bead garland are just a plant hanger that I haven’t hung up yet?! Hehe!
This wall hanging also fits right in with the neutral tones on the shelves, so it’s staying there for now too!
Looking for living room shelf decor ideas? Here are all the sources for our fall-decorated living room shelves:
- Shelving Unit
- Pumpkins, similar (exact ones were sold at JoAnn and no longer available)
- Vintage Scale
- Vintage Inspired Corbels, similar
- Various Vintage Books – buy them online here!
- Vintage Suitcase, similar
- Blanket Basket
- Woven Wall Hanging, exact one is no longer sold, here are some other styles
- Sectional Couch
- Green Throw Blanket
- Leather Throw Pillow
Are you ready for some more pumpkin decorations for fall inspiration???
While I was putting together this post, I found SO many great ideas for incorporating pumpkins into your home decorations for fall…So I rounded everything up for you below with 50+ pumpkin decorations for fall!!
Most of these have a neutral farmhouse style as you see on my fall decorated living room shelves.
THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR 2022! 🙂
SOOOOO many good ideas right?
Now, I’d love to know…