3 Things To Look For In An Autumn Wreath

A close up of an autumnal flower wreath on a front door

Choosing the perfect Autumn Wreath for your home

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One of the biggest downsides of modern life is how detached we’ve become from the natural world around us. Our increasingly domesticated, static lives may have a lot of pros, but many people are recognising just how sad it is that we no longer recognise the birds and trees around us, especially when living stressful, fast-paced urban lives.

One way to get more in touch with the natural world is to actively notice and celebrate the changing of the seasons. If that sounds like something you’re keen to do, and you want to approach it by getting a gorgeous autumn wreath, then here are three things that you can try to look out for.

Seasonal specificity

If you’re keen on finding a seasonally specific autumn wreath, then it’s worth looking at wreath makers that categorise their wreaths by season. For example this collection is packed full of potentially perfect autumn wreaths, reducing a lot of the leg work compared to looking through a more general collection that may or may not contain a suitably autumnal design.

Look for wreaths that have specifically autumnal motifs. Whether that’s dried brown leaves from your favourite trees, autumnal flowers, or autumnal harvests, make sure that you choose an option that actually reflects the appropriate season.

Quality craftsmanship

Autumn wreaths can be absolute works of art, but they can also look quite cheap, depending on where you get them from. During your search, you should be on the lookout for items of high-quality craftsmanship, for wreaths that do justice to the seasonal elements that they incorporate.

If you’re looking at the wreaths in person, this can be a lot easier to assess compared to looking at them online. Still, you can look at the photos on websites, and perhaps more importantly, check reviews from other people who have bought those autumn wreaths in the past.

An aesthetic match with your home

If you’re getting the wreath to decorate your home, then you don’t just want to buy any old thing. You also want to make sure that it will be an appropriate aesthetic match for the environment you place it in, whether that’s your front door, your bedroom or your living room.

Think about the other dominant colours and textures of the space you want to put it in and consider how your autumnal wreath will fit in. At the end of the day, you need to choose something that you’re happy with, and that may or may not be the most quintessentially autumnal wreath on the market.

Finding the right decorations for a home can be a tricky process and it’s not something that you’ll typically get right the first time around. The nice thing about autumnal decorations like autumn wreaths is that they’re not meant to be permanent. If you don’t like how it looks, at the very longest, you’ll have to wait until winter arrives to replace it with a more seasonally appropriate option.