The 13 Best "Kitchen Witch" Decor Ideas For Your Kitchen This Autumn

With spooky season upon us, try something a little different this year. There's plenty of witchy kitchen aesthetics on display all over social media, from TikTok to Instagram, using objects found in unexpected places like garden shops and farmers' markets. With a bit of inspiration, you can put together a kitchen witch look to get you in the mood for October and that autumnal Halloween vibe. 

From 10-foot skeletons to giant spiders, from fancy jack-o'-lantern stencils to zombie flamingos, outdoor yard decor for Halloween has gotten pretty outrageous in recent years. But maybe for the indoors, you may want a more down-to-earth vibe, something comforting while you whip up a batch of caramel apples or a pumpkin pie. The kitchen witch vibe is easy to attain. Of course, you can just hang a kitchen witch from your ceiling and leave it at that. But to create a kitchen witch aesthetic, there's a few different approaches to consider. The kitchen witch isn't the scary green-skinned witch of Hollywood horror movies. She's more of a gentle, benevolent figure: growing herbs on the windowsill and pressing cider from apples picked in her own backyard. Her pantry shelves are full of jars containing everything from culinary spices and dried herbs to acorns and chestnuts. She probably has a cat or a dog, and fills her bird feeders all year 'round. Her kitchen is cozy, warm, smells of spices, and always have an autumn vibe. Try some of our ideas for creating a kitchen witch look.

One quick way to create a kitchen witch look is with some simple glass jars. You can fill them with dried herbs or spices, rice, dried pasta, or decorative natural objects, like pine cones. If you're storing flour or other grain-based foods, use tightly-sealing jars: this is also a great way to prevent an invasion of pantry moths in your grain products. You can get simple canning jars at the grocery store, old Mason jars at antique shops, or jars with cork or wooden lids from craft stores.

Decorative gourds become widely available starting in September. You can find them at farmers' markets and even the produce section of the grocery store. They stay fresh for weeks and look great in an autumn centerpiece. Place a few around the kitchen for a colorful Halloween vibe. While miniature pumpkins and some gourds are edible, they're almost always used for decoration, and some are coated with wax to protect them and make them last longer. Like pumpkins, if they're not painted, you can compost them or leave in your yard for wildlife to eat.

Is there anything witchier looking then bunches of garlic hanging to dry? Probably not. Having herbs and plants drying in the kitchen is a common sign you're in a witch's kitchen. Drying garlic helps it to cure and last longer after harvesting. If you grow your own garlic, or get it fresh from a local grower, consider tying it in bunches and hanging it from the ceiling beams (or from the side of a wire bakers' shelf) in your kitchen. The faint mellow aroma is pleasant, and the bulbs look extra-witchy hanging around as they dry.

The antique country kitchen look has been through a few different incarnations in the past several decades. For those tired of the gleaming white cabinets, granite countertops, and tile backsplashes seen in so many kitchen renovations these days, having a warm country kitchen with soft colors and plenty of wood feels like a breath of fresh air. For a witchy accent, hang some antique wooden spoons and copper ladles on the wall, perfect for stirring up some potions, or making soup on a cold autumn night.

It's not a witch's kitchen without some freshly-harvested herbs drying somewhere. If you don't have wooden beams or rafters to hang bunches of herbs from, try this simple and nifty trick: use string or twine to make a "clothesline" and hang herb stems with clips. Leave the stems a few inches long with the leaves intact to make this work. It's a good method for mint, catnip, parsley, oregano, basil, lavender or other long-stemmed herb plants. When the herbs have dried, you can strip the leaves from the stems and store in plastic bags or glass jars.

Canisters and bottles and jars, oh my! The word "apothecary" conjures up images of medieval healers and their jars of medicines, many of them derived from plants. Witches are known for keeping an apothecary of healing preparations as well, so why not create an apothecary display on your kitchen? You can get old glass spice jars or glass jars from a craft shop. Leave them as is, or decorate with paint, labels, candle wax, or other creative effects as desired. Candles lit near colored glass bottled create a lovely effect, but be sure to never leave lit candles unattended.

Why settle for jack-o'-lanterns carved from pumpkins when you can make weird looking jack-o'-lanterns out of butternut squash? A jack-o'-lantern can be carved out of virtually any vegetable, and in Europe, it was often carved from large turnips. So use some of those odd-looking pumpkins or shapely squashes from the farmers' market to make a truly unique witchy vegetable lantern for your kitchen counter. This makes a great decoration for an autumnal gathering or for Halloween. You can also compost the squash in your garden for extra nutrients

Witches' brooms are often seen in gift shops at this time of year. There's a wide range of them, from finely-crafted handmade brooms using natural materials, to ersatz brooms made of plastic, to those small "cinnamon brooms" (be aware the fragrance can be off-putting to some folks with sensitive noses). You could make your own broom with twigs, a large stick, and some twine. Then add an extra magical touch to your homemade witchy broom with lights. A kitchen with a broom on display has that special witchy touch of authenticity.

Black cats are synonymous with witches. Even if you don't have a witchy feline familiar of your own, you can decorate your kitchen with black cat decor to give it a witchy feel. Try a ceramic teapot that looks like a black cat. There are also decorative prints, figurines, mugs, bowls and other black cat items to add a touch of cat magic to your kitchen. Try the seasonal aisle for black cat decorations, too, like cardboard cats for the door, or black cat fairy lights.

If you have the space on your counters or walls, nothing screams "witch's kitchen!" like bundles of dried flowers tied together, whether they're hanging in hooks or resting in clay or wooden bowls. They can come from your garden or farmers' market, and you can mix them with bundles of herbs to create a design full of different textures and colors. Be aware, these kinds of plants may drop petals or tiny seeds once they dry out completely, so there may be some clean up involved.

Halloween is synonymous with the color orange, so accentuating this color in your kitchen really plays up the witchy autumn vibes of the season. If you have some bright orange enamelware pots, put them on display! Add orange fabric accents to your windows. Get some orange glass votive holders for candles, or orange fairy lights. If you have the time, you may even want to paint your walls in the vibrant hue! Orange not only looks witchy, it casts a beautiful warm glow that feels cozy (and maybe a bit mysterious).

You may not have a fireplace in your kitchen to hang a big iron cauldron over, but what about a small cast iron cauldron to display? These can be purely decorative, or functional, too, as a good and safe place to hold glass candle jars. Some practitioners of modern witchcraft use them for burning resin incense over charcoal disks. These small cauldrons can be found for sale online, or at your local shop that sells witchy supplies, and will beautifully contrast your other autumn hues.

Here's a witchy decor idea that can function in your kitchen all year long: a vintage wooden shelf with cubby holes for storing glass jars for herbs and spices. These old racks (possibly made from old wooden milk crates) have just enough room for jars to be stored sideways. Of course, a savvy kitchen witch knows which spices are which just by looking, but you can make some witchy-looking labels, too. They can either rest of your countertop or you can hang them on the wall to free up space.