Attractive, versatile, and readily available in your yard, birch is the perfect transitional material to take your home from Summer to Fall. With its cool white lines and rich organic texture, it endows just about every piece of decor it touches with a rustic elegance. Want proof? Check out six gorgeous ways to use birch in the slideshow ahead.

Vase

A hollowed out birch trunk is the perfect place to display a bushel of flowers or dried eucalyptus branches. This blogger cleverly repurposed a birch hurricane lantern [1] as a vase.

Decor Platform

A slice of birch trunk makes an ideal platform for small decor, such as tea lights. Set up a couple at various heights to create a rich look.

Wall Hooks

Ease the transition from the outdoors to the indoors by lining your entryway wall with rustically charming DIY birch hooks [2].

Fireplace Decor

It doesn't matter if your fireplace is wood burning (or even functional), you can still stack birch wood inside it for an authentically dramatic look.

Candle Holder

There's something rustically romantic about the combination of birch wood and candles. Put the two together by carving out holes for tea lights in a few logs and artfully arrange them on your tabletop.

Basket of Logs

You don't need a fireplace to display a stack of attractive birch logs. You can just fill a basket with them and place them anywhere from your living room to your entryway.