Modern Farmhouse Playhouse Hack: Decorated for Fall
I’m so excited to share our modern farmhouse playhouse hack decorated for fall! I’m sharing how you can get this same look with all my tips for styling your playhouse to encourage your little ones to let their imaginations to run wild. Make sure you read to the end of the post – there is something really amazing that I don’t want you to miss!
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Living in Southern California our kiddos don’t have the opportunity to experience the full magic of fall like I did growing up in Central New York. Every year I would look forward to the changing seasons and the vibrant colors that followed. So I decided I would re-create the magic of fall for my girls with their playhouse. You can see how we transformed our KidKraft© playhouse by reading all about our playhouse hack here and how I transformed it to a lemonade stand by heading here. Here’s how you can achieve this magical fall playhouse look with just a few simple items!
Fall Leaves
It’s easy to create an autumn scene by adding just a few key elements. I found our real fall leaves at a local wholesale flower market. They were the perfect touch and the girls love playing with them.
Depending on where you live you can scoop some up with your kiddos. If you live in areas like we do that have more palm trees that fall leaves, head to your local flower market to buy some or you can always go with a faux leave option too.
Pumpkins for Sale
When we think of fall we think of pumpkins! I added pumpkins in one of their metal crates and updated their cute chalkboard sign. My girls love pretending they are at a pumpkin patch selling pumpkins to one another.
Fall Welcome Mat
Nothing welcomes you to a home or in this case a playhouse like a cute welcome mat. I found this adorable one for the girls and I’ve linked several other cute options below!
Colorful Mums
Fall is not complete without gorgeous fall mums in a variety of colors. I updated our modern white and wood planter with these pretty burgundy colored flowers and surrounded them with vibrant oranges and golden yellow.
Olive Buckets, Metal Crates & Modern Planters
Using cute items to coral your pumpkins and flowers makes it easier to organize and move them around the playhouse. I love the modern farmhouse feel that olive buckets, metal crates and our modern planter add to our little playhouse. You can also take olive branches and wrap them in ribbon for the kiddos to play with and pretend they are at a fall flower market.
Fall Decor for the Inside of Your Playhouse
Here’s a little tour of the inside – I get so many questions about the inside – so here it is! I added a few more pumpkins and mums – keeping it simple so they can move around and play make believe. We have always had this letter “L” that I spray painted to match the black trim – I love how it gives our playhouse a custom touch.
Succulents in wooden planters surround our playhouse because they are easy to maintain and look pretty at the same time.
Using the girl’s chalkboard I left them a cute message for fall. They love playing with their wooden eggs in the play kitchen area.
I hope you found this post inspirational for getting your playhouse hack decorated for fall! What elements are your favorite? Have you done a playhouse hack?
And now for the exciting part!! KidKraft© and I are partnering for a Greystone Cottage Playhouse GIVEAWAY!! You will have a chance to win (1) Greystone Cottage playhouse for your children, grandchildren or whoever you think will love it!! It’s the perfect time with the holidays right around the corner – can you imagine your kiddos excitement!
Enter for your chance to win here:
Winner will be announced on: Wednesday October 10th, 2018.
Can’t wait to see who will win their very own Greystone playhouse!
*This giveaway is in collaboration with KidKraft©. The opinions, images and text are my own.
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LOVE this play house!! I would try to do something very similar if we won!! We love pumpkins so we definitely have a few more of those!(:
Seriously the cutest thing!!
I absolutely LOVE your play house. My girl just turned one and I cannot wait to create something like this for her!
This is the cutest playhouse. My two little girls would be thrill if I won a playhouse for them. We would decorate for fall as well.
I’d decorate with lots of jack o lanterns up front and cobwebs, and some battery powered pumpkin lights!
This is too cute! Love the pumpkins! I hope I win one for my daughter. I love this!
This is the cutest little playhouse! I love how you decorated. For fall, I’d probably add some pumpkins and corn stalks!
So fun! I would steal all your cute ideas 😉
love how festive this is while keeping it modern farmhouse! Thanks for the ideas and inspiration!
I would decorate my daughters play house with all fall colors and different pumpkins color and squash. This playhouse is amazing looking and I would most likely copy exactly what you did because I love all of it!! Hehe
I would totally set it up for selling pumpkins! We have our own pumpkin patch in the backyard and I’m sure my girls would play for ages that way. I also love the mat and mum idea!
I love this so much, it is seriously adorable! I would do something similar, but also do something spooky:)
I’d decorate just like that! Very Joanna Gaines! I love it!
I love fall and would decorate our playhouse with loads of pumpkins and mums!
How exciting! I’d love to surprise my kids with this. We would make it a family project and paint/decorate together.
What a fun giveaway!! I would decorate it for Halloween because my kiddos love that holiday 😉 Thanks for the inspiration, Beth!!
Love it! I would add some Halloween decor as well.
LOVE this playhouse! Its absolute enchanting. Our little girl would adore playing in this. We would decorate it for every holiday as we do our own home! 🙂
Cutest playhouse ever!!!!
Beth this looks stunning!! I would love to win a playhouse for my two little ladies. As much as I would like be to decorate it my way with neutrals, I know my little ladies would love it so much more using their favorite color…blue! I’m thinking a white and gray house with gold accents. Then some navy blue, French Blue and burnt orange decor to “fall” it up. Love following along with you!
Love this playhouse. Love the flowers, pumpkins, and doormat!!🧡
I love y’alls playhouse! 😍 I would decorate ours with ALL the pumpkins and fall leaves. My 2 year old hasn’t met a pumpkin she doesn’t “LOVE and NEED!” 😂
So pretty!!!
Beautiful!
Twinkle lights, pumpkins, pumpkin scented things
Love!!
You decorated it perfectly! I’d have plenty of real leaves to use here at our place.
Love yours! We would def have string lights
I ran across your playhouse makeover a few weeks ago and fell in LOVE with it!!!! I have 9 grandchildren and would so love to do this for them!! I live in the country and have a white farmhouse that the playhouse would look so awesome with!!! I love your Fall decor but would definitely add some ghosts and goblins 👻!!!
I would decorate it similar with pumpkins, mums, and fall leaf garlands. However my kids say they would decorate as a “kid-friendly” haunted house for our neighborhood kids. LOL
This is absolutely darling!!! I love the use of mums and olive buckets and the pumpkins 5centa sign is perfection! I cannot wait for my baby girl to have a playhouse of her own.
This playhouse!! My grandbabies would freak out if I win!! 😂😂
My little one would love this so much!!! ❤️
What a magical makeover! Between twinkling white lights, pumpkins, and colorful mums it’s perfect.
I would decorate our playhouse almost exactly like yours. I love your style. Your IG is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
I would LOVE to try something like this with lots of pumpkins! This is the cutest! I love it!
Ah so excited! Love this playhouse and I’ve been wanting to get one for my daughter. We would decorate it with pumpkins, lights, some fall flowers and of course some spoky spider web for Halloween 🎃
This playhouse is the cutest one I have ever seen! We are planning to move soon and I was hoping to buy the playhouse and fix it up for my three girls. Winning one would be amazing! Love love love this!!!
This is amazing. I love each and every post. You give me such inspiration. My daughter is expecting her third daughter any hour or day at this point. This would be amazing for her to share with her girls… I would love to help her decorate it. The ideas are endless. Thanks for the chance.
This is amazing. This would be such an amazing gift to my daughter who is expecting her third girl any hour or day at the moment. I have followed your journey with your playhouse and love all the inspiration… Thanks for the chance. She would be so excited… I would love to help her with it.. Hobby Lobby is 5 mins away so we would start there…
My girls would absolutely love this. The farmhouse look is so beautiful!! You did an amazing job.
Mums & pumpkins for sure! This is too adorable.
You have such amazing taste & the cutest blog I have ever seen 😍😍
This is soooo adorable!!! I think I would add some cute cobwebs and spiders to give it a Halloween feel! I might even move it to our porch and let the kids pass out candy!
Cutest playhouse ever! I would decorate it and then the kids would do it their way 😝.
So cute – I would love to add pumpkins in the fall.
Beautiful!!! 😍🙌🏼
I honestly love this SO MUCH and as a photographer, can’t help but to think of this as an adorable gingerbread house!! I know you asked for Fall ideas, but that’s when I shoot Christmas Card photos for families, and THIS would be PERFECT!!
This is so cute! The black/white match the farmhouse we are building perfectly! I would love to reno a playhouse to match!
Plaid, white pumpkins and some orange accents! Love your playhouse! So want one for my kids!
I’d decorate with all the warm oranges and yellows since my girls love bright fall colors!
Love this! We have been wanting to do this for our two littles for a while now. Love the Holiday decorations. They have pumpkin lights that would be a fun addition to the Fall decorations. Thanks for sharing all of your great ideas!
I love the pumpkins and mums!
I live in Florida so the mums would die too quickly in the heat but some cute string lights hanging would be great so it could be used in the evening when I t gets a little cooler after the sun starts to set. And of course pumpkins!!
I am a bit obsessed with autumn so I would go all out. We dip autumn leaves in beeswax every year s oI would string garland of them up all over on the inside and have pumpkins all over on the outside. Iw ould love to paint mine similar to yours!!
We love to dip autumn leaves in beeswax so I would hang garland of them all over the inside.
So fun!! I love you mix up the playhouse for the seasons…I never thought to do it and now I’m obsessed!
I would copy your house exactly!! I live in the Midwest and love all things fall.
This is adorable!! I’m loving the mums out front. My kiddos would love to win one of their very own!
I would do a white and black playhouse for my granddaughters !! Lol, a copycat of yours !! It looks amazing ❤️
I would decorate my daughters playhouse like the local pumpkin patch’s gift shop so she could pretend to sell pumpkins, cookies, pies, etc. it would definitely have a lot of pumpkins!
I love your playhouse! I’d decorate it similar with a lot of white and navy (my fav!). Id deck it out with mums and white pumpkins for fall. Ooh and a buffalo check rug for sure.
Absolutely love this! Wish it came in white already!
I’d make it spooky! We love halloween!
I absolutely love your style! I had no idea KidKraft made such adorable play houses. I would love to get one for my daughter and paint it like you did and add our own touches of flowers and pumpkins for fall. I’d love to turn something like this into tradition with my daughter that we could do every year for special holidays like thanksgiving and Christmas that she can then do with her own kids one day
I would decorate ours with everything my boys love. A little bit of everything!
I love this little playhouse! We would decorate it with pumpkins and gourds, hang a garland of fall leaves, add a few small mums and some cute Halloween decorations too!
This play house is BEAUTIFUL 😍 I have a 2 year old and you’ve inspired me to try a hack! I never would have thought to decorate it for the holidays, how fun!!!
I love everything on your page, especially the playhouse. I have a little girl that would go crazy for this and just found out I have another baby on the way!!
I love this! My daughter has been drawing “blueprints” of her playhouse and she’s included some very big ideas about a book shelf, ladder and a craft table with hot cocoa and cookies on it and more. As a parent I never want to discourage her from dreaming so it helps to see how you brought this one to a new level of style!
We’re moving from a condo in Chicago to a modern farmhouse in the burbs and we can’t wait! While we LOVE the city it’s gotten too hard with two kids and a 60lb dog. The modern farmhouse we’re building has light gray b&b with black trim, I would hack the Graystone Cottage to mirror our home and dec it out in all the seasonal wonders!! Xoxo
My kids would die to have one of these!! Keeping my fingers crossed for the big win!
I’m obsessed! I grew up with a wooden playhouse just like this! Another cool additive my dad did to the playhouse was put the address number of our house “48” and added a 1/2 by it. “48 1/2” since it was like our little house. We decorated it for every holiday as well! Love it!
I would add some Halloween decor. This is the cutest playhouse I’ve seen. Darling
I grew up with a house just like this! My dad added our address number with a half by it since it was our house! I love this! I’d correlate the decoration with my house with gold sprayed pumpkins.
I hope I win! My 2 kiddos would love this & I would love to give it a cute makeover using your tips & tricks!
I would create a superhero hideout for children and let them bask in what they love to do, which is to save the day.
This is so magical! I would decorate mine with pumpkins and baskets as well – and twinkle lights!! I will take any excuse to use all the twinkle lights, and I think they would look so festive with all the leaves.
Beautiful!! I would love to recreate this playhouse for my little!
First we would decorate for Fall birthdays! Then more pumpkins for sure and would borrow some of your Fall decorating tips!! And the. Oh I can just imagine how cute this would transistors into winter. And bring on some twinkle lights too!
OMGosh Beth! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how you keep decorating the playhouse to go with the season… what a fun experience (for you and the girls)! If only I had something like this when I was growing up — the endless hours of decorating fun + possibilities. Ooh Aah!!! BTW: a perfect pairing between you and KidCraft. xo
This is so cute! I would decorate this precious playhouse for Christmas ASAP!
Snails and shells and puppy dog tails! Maybe a few pumpkins and turkeys, as well! Our 3-year old would have so much fun decorating with us! He is very observant and loves all seasonal changes around the house! Having his own “little home” to decorate would be exciting for him!
this is so cute! I would love it for my 2 little granddaughters 3>
It’s absolutely perfect! I think I would do just the same!
I would love to do this for my little girl! She loves lights, so I would definitely add some Halloween themed lights to the house!
Love this! My husband promised he would do this if our second baby turned out to be a girl. 3 weeks ago I gave birth to our second daughter…. so now he has to build us one of these 😉
I absolutely love this playhouse it’s gorgeous! I would love to decorate mine as a crisp white farmhouse! With lots of pumpkins now of course!
This is such a beautiful playhouse!
I’m so excited to decorate 🙂 I would first paint it, we love the hamptons look. We’d put some pumpkins outside on both sides. We’ve purchased the perfect black and white rug fit the front! We’d make it unisex incorporating some action figures as well as some fall colored mums too.
Having just had a baby girl, I’m looking forward to playing make believe with her in the near future. I love the creativity of this playhouse, tons of inspiration for things to do with her.
I’ve been eyeing one for the past several years. I would totally deck it out with all the pumpkins and mums for fall. I’ll have the kids create a wreath for their door. And of course, paint it white. Thank you for the opportunity!
My girls would LOVE this playhouse, it’s the cutest!!
This is the cutest little home I’ve ever seen! I’m so in love!
I love the play house renovation! Would love this for my two little ones. Love the seasonal decorations!
I LOVE THIS HOUSE!!!!!! I have one question how did you paint the windows?? Aren’t they plastic?? is it spray paint??? I need to know 🙂
Hi! Thank you so much! In the original post I have all the details and tips – we spray painted them first – the original post is linked in the fall post or you can search playhouse hack and it will come up! Hope that helps! xo, Beth