25 White Pumpkin Ideas That Add Elegance to Fall Decor

Pair neutral white pumpkins with any decorating style for a sophisticated autumn aesthetic.

Give your fall decor a touch of sophistication by opting for white pumpkins this year. Unlike traditional orange, white pumpkins can be incorporated into almost any design style or decorating scheme. Plus, they provide a neutral backdrop for pairing with other fall decor, like gourds, leaves, and colorful accents.

Whether you're accenting a farmhouse interior or decorating a modern front porch, white pumpkins can be used for centerpieces, pumpkin stacks, porch decor, and more. Use these white pumpkin ideas as inspiration for a stunning fall look anywhere inside or outside your home.

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Outdoor Porch Decor

Welcome trick-or-treaters and other fall guests with a large display of pumpkins on your front steps. White, orange, and green pumpkins of all sizes are haphazardly stacked and placed along the edges of the steps for an inviting, lush fall stoop.

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Pumpkin-Filled Cloches

Glass cloches are a great way to display seasonal decor, because they're so easy to swap out. Here, a stack of white pumpkins and dried fall branches are featured in a unique way. Five different cloches enclose a variety of fall decor in this table arrangement, including multicolor ears of corn, paper mushrooms, and branches.

Fireplace Pumpkin Display

Fill a wooden planter with a huge stack of white pumpkins, and place it in front of a fireplace for a unique, classy fall decor idea. An additional white pumpkin on a pedestal and witch brooms by the fireplace complete the slightly spooky design.

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White Pumpkin Porch Decor

To update your front porch for fall, mix a few white and orange pumpkins into the decor on the coffee table, side table, and even on the ground. With a large planter filled with orange mums, the entire area looks cozy and comfortable.

White Pumpkin Display

If your living room has a long shelf along the wall, decorate it for autumn with a row of white pumpkins. Use a variety of shapes and sizes to create interest and fill in gaps, and create tiny stacks along the shelf.

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Backyard Pumpkin Decor

Turn your yard into a pumpkin patch by surrounding your seating area with string lights, pumpkins, and hale bales. Then, set an outdoor table with a mini white pumpkin at each place setting, and witch hats running down the center of the table.

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Farmhouse-Inspired Centerpiece

Show off the bounty of fall with a centerpiece overflowing with white pumpkins. Strategically placing just a few branches with fall leaves with the pumpkins adds just a hint of color to an otherwise neutral display.

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Fall Table Decor

Turn an end table into a forest wonderland with a few small white pumpkins and other fall items. Cut logs, paper mushrooms, and fall leaves all create a creative and rustic fall display.

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White Pumpkin Fireplace Decor

If you’re not one for a cozy fall fire, repurpose your fireplace by filling it with white pumpkins. The color works especially well with the white brick of this fireplace, and offsets the large black candle holders and spooky frosted-over portraits above the mantel.

Painted Pumpkins

Mix white pumpkins with metallic orange and gray pumpkins in a small wooden bowl. Use black and white markers to add a simple pattern of dots and lines to some of the pumpkins for a more graphic, modern look.

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White Pumpkin Vase

For a new way to display a fall bouquet, slice the top off of a white pumpkin, and hollow out the inside. Place a small glass with water inside the pumpkin, then arrange flower stems so the blooms just peek over the top of the pumpkin.

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Monochromatic White Pumpkins

This completely white pumpkin decor idea is elegant and intriguing. Stacks of white pumpkins are decorated with silvery spiders and white masquerade masks, with long white taper candles mixed in for a fantastical fall display.

Clever White Pumpkin Decor

Use an oblong white pumpkin as the base, then attach decorations like knit white pumpkins for eyes, an extra stem for a beak, and white pumpkin seeds for feathers. Two additional mini white pumpkins act as the feet for this adorable owl decoration.

Pumpkin Porch Display

Decorate your front porch with a variety of white pumpkins, including a stack of pumpkins with a small amount of moss between each layer. Place a few extra pumpkins on the steps leading up to the door, mixing large and mini white pumpkins for added interest.

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Decorated White Pumpkins

Transform white pumpkins however you want with a little paint and creativity. Turn orange dots into jack-o’-lantern faces, black dots into tiny spiders, and decorate black and white striped pumpkins with spooky, ghostly faces.

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White Pumpkin Planter Ideas

Dress up a decorative barrel planter for fall with a white pumpkin in the center. With ornamental cabbages planted all around the edge, the center pumpkin looks like it could be sitting in its own mini pumpkin patch.

Decorated White Pumpkins

Create spooky spiderwebs on top of orange and white pumpkins using colorful string. Use glue to attach the strings to each pumpkin, then display in a small grouping on a side table, mantel, or in front of the fireplace.

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Orange and White Pumpkin Ideas

Mix orange pumpkins with white for a bold, eye-catching front porch display. The white pumpkins are great for decorating with drawn-on spiders and spider webs, adding an extra touch of spookiness to the pumpkin and mum display on the front steps.

Pumpkin Carving Ideas

For a totally new take on jack-o’-lanterns, carve a large orange pumpkin with the outline of an owl. Then, fill the blank space with a stack of tiny white pumpkins decorated with a short phrase for a fun, adorable twist on fall decor.

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White Pumpkin Centerpieces

For an elegant centerpiece with white pumpkins, line pumpkins of differing sizes up in the center of the table, then twine with bittersweet vines. This sophisticated project would make a great Thanksgiving centerpiece, but could fit in at any fall celebration.

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Simple White Pumpkin Ideas

Add just a touch of fall to a bookcase in your living room by placing a few white pumpkins on the shelves. One silver pumpkin helps draw in the eye, but the three white pumpkins almost blend into the shelf for a subtle, simple fall display.

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Pumpkin Table Setting

White pumpkins are perfect for writing or painting–and in this design, they make adorable place cards for a festive fall dinner. Use paint or even a marker to write guests’ names on mini white pumpkins, then display with a few fall leaves at each place setting.

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Outdoor White Pumpkins

Suspend white pumpkins from garden stakes for ghostly, floating decor that hangs above garden mums and other plants. Use a stencil to paint black bats on each pumpkin for an even spookier look.

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Painted White Pumpkin Ideas

Turn a white pumpkin into a piece of art by painting a silhouette on one side. If you have a favorite fall book or movie quote, use a marker to write the words wrapping around the pumpkin, then display with other fall decor, like a black sequin pumpkin.

White Pumpkin Mantel Decor

Ghostly skeletal birds have found a place to nest for the season–inside white pumpkins on this fireplace mantel. Perch the bird skeletons on top of hollowed out white pumpkins, then fill with moss and faux eggs for cute and creepy Halloween decor.

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