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Holiday decorations on the inside of any home will give it a more festive look, and for many people part of the pleasure of the season is being able to put up a bevy of garlands, ornaments, and sparkling accents. While decorating your house for the holidays, don’t forget to dress up its exterior. In particular, a well staged porch will impress and surprise guests, as well as provide a preview to the welcoming scene that you’ve set up inside.
Imagine the expressions on your guests’ faces as they come up to your door and see a fantastic display before they even step into your home. You can use all types of decorations for a festive front porch, and even if you don’t have a lot of space to spare or dwell in an apartment you still have design options. Here are ten beautiful holiday decorated porches that will give you plenty of inspiration.
1. A cozy seating area
This porch is decked out with hanging and standing holiday decor, including lit topiaries, wreaths, wire reindeer, and painted wooden snowflakes. There’s also tall vases full of holiday ornaments near the stairs and a seating area topped with plush pillows in Christmas colors. This is certainly a great way to greet guests, or to treat your family to a special place where they can go to relax during the holiday season.
2. Candlelit walkway
These candlelit candelabras were created using empty wine bottles, and you can easily do the same for your own porch and walkway. It’s an innovative way to re-purpose items, plus the result is stunning. If you want to mimic the look but you don’t have an assortment of empty wine bottles at your disposal, simply take hurricane vases, insert votive or tealight candles, and nestle them around your walkway.
3. Festive red decor
Red is one of the main traditional colors associated with the Christmas season, and holiday decorated porches can look amazing swathed in it. This entryway already had a red door, so it made sense to use the color to create a festive theme along with silver accents and greenery. The result is stylish, chic, and would also make an amazing backdrop for holiday photos. Pulling off a similar look would be a snap, and if you use containers and ornaments that you already own plus a few embellishments from the dollar or craft store, it would be an inexpensive arrangement as well.
4. Holiday porch bar
This porch exudes country style charm, and the accessories used to decorate it meld beautifully with the barn red and mustard tones of the home’s exterior. A cabinet that the homeowner already had was pulled onto the porch and stocked with the liqueurs, spirits, and barware needed to make favorite winter time drinks. You can recreate a similar look and stage your own porch bar with the right flea market style accessories, and doing so is a great idea for those in warmer areas where the outdoors is a prime hangout spot during Christmas time.
5. A contemporary twist
Holiday decorated porches can easily reflect the decor style of your home’s interior, which is the case with this beautiful design. It features an assortment of over-sized Christmas ornaments hung high above the walkway on branches, as well as two chic black and white planters topped with organic figures made to look like reindeer. The symmetry of this design is a big part of its appeal, and the wreath put onto the door adds a classic element and the perfect way to tie the entire display together.
6. Frosted accents
Here is a holiday porch covered with faux frosted greenery, which can be purchased from just about any craft store around Christmas time. Wood cut outs of letters and snowflakes decorate the exterior wall of the home, and the porch also has clusters of shiny red and silver ornaments and a seating area with red pillows. The bookcase set between the two chairs is a nice touch, and you can opt to fill yours with holiday tales or winter themed books if you decide to recreate this design.
7. Traditional style
This porch and entryway looks like it was plucked straight out of the scene of a holiday movie. It’s classic in every sense of the word, with ornament studded wreaths hung high on the windows and archway, lit Christmas trees near the door, and lanterns with glowing white candles illuminating the walkway. The piles of snow are courtesy of nature itself, but even if you live in an area that doesn’t get snow during the winter, mimicking this look would impress your guests and give your home a welcoming, festive, and refined look.
8. A bit of glamor
Holiday decorated porches can definitely be glamorous and luxurious looking, and this arrangement meets that definition. The doorway is veiled in an assortment of ribbons, greenery, ornaments, and branches, and it all looks quite upscale and like a pro designer came up with the display. Right next to the door is a tall green plant strewn with lights and two illuminated boxes wrapped like presents. The entire look is sophisticated, elegant, and perfectly complements the exterior of the home.
9. Beautiful decor on a small porch
If you have a small porch or entryway, there are many things you can do to give it a great look this Christmas. This porch isn’t very large at all, but it has a huge dose of style thanks to the homeowner’s creative decorations. If you want to get the same look, join ornaments of your choice with a standard green garland and hang above your entryway. Tie pretty ribbon to a select few over-sized ornaments and use those to decorate as well. This design uses green, silver, and red, but you can certainly mix it up and go with your favorite holiday colors or a more eclectic palette such as copper, blue, and frosted white.
10. An extraordinary wreath
This wreath stands out because of its scale and the way that it’s displayed. Also, it’s not one but three wreaths that have been joined together and hung down the length of the door. A huge bow on the center wreath, a scattering of metallic ornaments, festive ribbon, and strings of lights take it over the top. To make the porch look even better, the homeowners placed two urns with small trees on either side of the door, complete with bright lights, as well as a vintage sled and pair of ice skates.
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