Tennessee’s fall color is stunning — and the best seat to enjoy it is often your own backyard. A well-designed outdoor space frames and celebrates the seasonal beauty. Five specific ways help you enjoy fall color right from home in Middle Tennessee. Here’s how to make your backyard the best spot for peak color.
1: Orient Seating Toward the Trees
The simplest way to enjoy fall color is to face it. Orient outdoor seating toward the trees and the best color views. When the space is designed to look out at the changing leaves, every moment outdoors takes in the beauty. Orienting seating toward the color is the foundation of enjoying fall from your backyard.
2: Create a Morning Coffee Spot
Fall mornings with coffee and color are among the season’s quiet pleasures. A comfortable spot positioned for the morning light and the fall trees makes it a daily ritual. The morning coffee spot is where you savor the color in peace. Designing one is a simple way to enjoy fall from home every day.
3: Frame the Views From Inside Too
Fall color is enjoyed from inside as much as out. Large windows framing the fall trees bring the color indoors, so you enjoy it from the kitchen, family room, and beyond. Framing the views from inside extends the fall-color enjoyment throughout the home. The color becomes part of daily indoor life too.
4: Light the Trees for Evening Color
Uplighting on the fall trees turns them into evening sculpture, extending the color enjoyment into the night. As the leaves change, lit trees become a nighttime spectacle. Lighting the trees is what lets you enjoy the fall color after dark. It transforms the evening backyard during peak color season.
5: Host Around the Peak Color
Peak fall color is a beautiful backdrop for gatherings. Host during the color’s peak — a fall dinner, a fire-side evening, a weekend gathering — to share the beauty. Hosting around peak color makes the most of the fleeting season. The color turns any gathering into a memorable fall occasion. Time gatherings to it.
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Good Day Living designs outdoor spaces that celebrate Tennessee’s fall beauty. gdayliving.com.
