This Christmas season, you don't have to struggle with hundreds of string lights to improve your home's curb appeal. Instead, decorate your porch with natural features or festive accents for a warm welcome to the Christmas spirit all year. To get you started, we've compiled a list of easy-to-copy Christmas porch decor ideas (well... the porch).
1. Boughs in Buckets
Target and your local craft shop are generally bursting with stylish and affordable décor. For example, blogger Liz Marie utilized these hanging copper pots as an alternative to the typical front door Christmas wreath. Attach metallic canisters to a wood board, fill with beautiful branches, and place on your front door with a wreath hook to get this appearance.
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2. Porch with a View
Faux evergreens abound on this New England porch by At Charlotte's House, from the gleaming tree to the pinecone garland and frosted wreath. Buy fake foliage with stress-free LED lights and install them on a timer that turns on and off every day to keep your front porch looking festive.
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3. Planters Currently in Use
Another detail we enjoy on At Charlotte's House's Christmas porch is the DIY planters. They're filled with a combination of fresh and fake foliage to make them seem overflowing (smart! ), then tied with a huge red ribbon to make them look like presents and give a splash of color to the doorstep.
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4. Gobs of Greenery
The important components in this charming Christmas porch by French Country Cottage are gorgeous natural greenery (look at that gorgeous wreath!) and traditional lanterns powered by LED candles. To recreate this rich design, go to a local nursery and pick up some fresh greenery, then fill porch urns with additional evergreen trimmings and genuine tangerines for a picture-perfect festive effect.
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5. Cute as a button
Maison de Pax blends flocked foliage with natural touches like pillar candles in birch containers, pinecones, and lots of berries in this festive entryway. Swaths of luxury velvet red ribbon tie the entire ensemble together (pun intended), adding a splash of color and seasonal playfulness.
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6. A Touch of Texas
Use your Christmas décor to pay homage to your home state, like the Cavender Diary's festive ranch-inspired Texas front porch. For a complete and sophisticated atmosphere, the couple updated an affordable craft shop garland with free scrap branches from their neighbourhood Christmas tree lot. An antique cow skull and plastic berries complete the theme.
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7. Victorian-era vintage
There's something about the holidays that makes you want to reminisce. Dress up your front porch with antique Christmas decorations to add to the vintage vibe. A historic wagon cart bears a miniature artificial tree and a cheery sign hand-painted with a seasonal greeting on the Christmas porch of While I Linger.
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8. Bouquet in Basket
While I Linger's Christmas porch has come up with yet another brilliant concept. An antique fishing creel is transformed into a basket bouquet for the front porch with fresh evergreen cuttings, berries, and branches. If you can't locate a fishing creel of your own, try for a tiny rattan basket or bag in your local antique shop to get a similar mood.
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9. Curbside Greetings
Start spreading festive happiness on your driveway this season! Thanks to a bright explosion of greenery replete with berries and shiny pine cones, the blogger behind Southern Hospitality gave her simple white mailbox a holiday boost. When you go to the front porch, you'll be greeted with a cranberry wreath and berry-dotted swag.
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10. Energizing and Festive
Dimples & Tangles' cheerful stoop is completely brimming with colour. Brightly coloured lights fill ornate lanterns to the brim, while shatterproof ornaments swing from the porch overhang. Another fantastic idea to borrow is to add brass bells to an evergreen swag for a cheerful ringing every time the front door swings open with visitors.
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11. Traditional and Timeless
This classic porch (decorated by Deborah Silver) is decked up for the holidays with a gorgeous garland adorned with pine cones, cotton stems, and string lights. Cast iron urns brimming with seasonal foliage and magnolia branches provide the finishing touch.
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12. Simple and elegant
When it comes to design, sometimes less is more. Consider this spacious porch, which was decorated by Beneath My Heart and has a few simple-yet-powerful elements that hint at the Christmas season. Two pint-sized trees in galvanised buckets flank the grand entryway, while berry wreaths adorn the front doors. As a consequence, the Christmas front porch décor is attractive and subtle.
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13. DIY dangling
Thanks to Melissa of The Inspired Room's brilliant concept, even your porch light fixtures can be transformed for the holidays. She utilized two boxwood wreaths, rope, and string lights to create her festive wreath chandelier. The finished product, when matched with an identically gilded front door, is a subtle but tasteful tribute to the season.
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14. Yellow is mellow
You don't need much to make a front door as vibrant as this lemon-colored beauty stand out for any season. To fill this colourful porch with comfortable happiness, the bloggers behind Lolly Jane utilized DIY wreaths (accented with striped ribbon and a little wood sled), antique furniture, and two fake trees.
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15. Stoop that stands out
A crimson door is lovely at any time of year, but it is especially lovely around the holidays. Take, for example, Between Naps on the Porch's Christmas front porch. For a homely, nostalgic touch, a trio of wreaths (resembling a snowman) is paired with cedar garland, a classic Flexible Flyer sled, and ancient ice skates.
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16. Red Rustic Christmas
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17. Repurposed screen door
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18. Beary Christmas
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19. Frosted Fern Wreath
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20. Nostalgic Christmas
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21. Decorated Vintage Sled
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22. Vintage plaid Christmas
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23. Christmas at the farm
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24. Hanging basket for Christmas
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25. Old wagon and sled
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26. Affordable Christmas Decorating
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27. Outdoorsy Decor
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28. Christmas cabin
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29. Christmas dresser
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30. Porch Decor
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31. Christmas planter
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32. Winter Greenery
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