PUMPKIN CO.Why a homemade display looks thin.
Three reasons, and the numbers in our own displays explain all three.
A homemade pumpkin display usually looks thin for one of three reasons: too few pieces, a single size, or a single color. Every display Penn Pumpkin Co sells has at least 22 pumpkins, uses four graded sizes together, and includes white ghost pumpkins alongside the orange.
One: too few pieces.
A Touch of Fall is our smallest display at $350. It is an accent beside a door, sized for a small entrance, and it still has 22 pumpkins. The white ghost pumpkins, minis, and gourds come on top of that.
A display built from six or eight pumpkins is a quarter to a third of that. It looks like a few pumpkins by a door, which is a perfectly good thing to be. It is not the display most people are picturing when they start.
Two: one size.
Every display we sell uses four grades together. A Touch of Fall carries 4 large, 4 medium, about 10 pie, and 4 specialty pumpkins, at the smallest size we sell.
Buy twenty pumpkins of one size and you have twenty pumpkins. Buy the same twenty across four grades and you get levels, and the eye sees levels as a display. The proportions are here, as shares you can apply at any size.
Three: one color.
White ghost pumpkins are in all four of our displays. So are minis and gourds, and the specialty pumpkins bring the heirloom color. An all-orange display is missing the contrast that makes the orange look deliberate.
This one is also the cheapest to fix. A handful of white pumpkins changes an all-orange display more than another three large ones would. The palette page sets out the three colors in every display of ours.
And one that is not a mistake.
A small display suits a small entrance. Our smallest package is built for exactly that, and a doorway with no porch takes a different arrangement from a wide covered one. Small entrances have their own page, including where the height comes from when there are no steps.
Questions about a display that looks sparse.
Why does my pumpkin display look thin?
Most often, the number of pumpkins. Our smallest display is an accent beside a door, and it still has 22 pumpkins before the white ghosts, minis, and gourds. A homemade display is usually built from a fraction of that.
How many pumpkin sizes should a display use?
Four, plus the minis and gourds. Every display we sell pairs large, medium, pie, and specialty pumpkins. One size gives you a flat line, and four give you a composition.
Should all the pumpkins be orange?
None of ours are. White ghost pumpkins come with all four displays, and the specialty pumpkins carry the heirloom color. Orange alone is the third reason a display looks thinner than it is.
Is it better to buy a few large pumpkins or more small ones?
More small ones, if you have to choose. Pie pumpkins are the largest single line in three of our four displays, and small fruit closes the gaps that make a display look sparse.
More in this guide.
The full guide is Building a pumpkin display yourself, which covers the lot in one place.
Or start from a display that is already put together.
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