Many people like to decorate their front porch for fall to make their home more welcoming to guests as well as more fun for the family.
Traditional fall decorations include orange pumpkins, mum flowers in fall colors, bales of hay, and a fall themed wreath on the front door.
Here are a few designer tips and tricks to create more unique front porch decorations this fall.
Different Colors
Instead of the traditional orange pumpkins, a designer tip is to use white or gray pumpkins to be more unique. You can even paint your pumpkins to be a unique color of your choice.
The uniquely colored pumpkins often create a beautiful contrast with a dark front door.
You can even have a collection of pumpkins in different shapes, sizes, and colors.
Consider spray painting traditional orange pumpkins a metallic color or a glossy unique color if you want a more modern look.
Instead of orange, red, or yellow mums, consider using purple and/or white mums for a more updated and fresher look.
Additional Color
If you wish, you can keep your traditional brown, yellow, orange, and red fall color scheme, but mix in an additional color for fun.
You can add turqoise, lime green, or purple for added drama.
Lanterns
Lanterns are popular fall decorations both inside and outside the home.
Consider using a flameless candle inside your lanterns on your front porch for a warm glow.
You can even have lanterns lining your driveway or the sidewalk leading to your front door.
If you have a large lantern but do not want a candle inside, you can fill it with fall themed items as if it were a bowl. Consider using acorns, small gourds, or other fall themed or fall colored items as fillers.
Gourds
Instead of traditional orange pumpkins, consider decorating your front porch for fall with a collection of unique and unusually shaped gourds for a designer look.
Gourds are less expected, which is more eye catching than a simple orange pumpkin.
If you have a large amount of gourds, you can display them spilling all over your porch. If you have a smaller amount of gourds, consider putting them in a decorative basket.
If you do wish to use traditional pumpkins, you can stack them on top of each other like a topiary.
Textural Items
A designer trick is to use textural items when decorating a front porch for fall in order to make the porch feel more warm and welcoming.
You can decorate with textural pine cones, burlap, tree branches, wheat, moss, feathers, dried corn, bales of hay, sunflowers, leaves, raw cotton stems, and any fresh cut greenery.
Wreath
Many people like to have a wreath having on their door year round but change the wreath depending on the season.
If you want a fall themed wreath, consider texture as well as color.
You can decorate your fall wreath with a large burlap bow in a fall color to introduce a rough texture that is appropriate for fall.
Tips
Avoid childish and cheap fall decor if you want your home to look sophisticated (feel free to use them if they make you happy). Examples of such decor is cutesy scarecrows, inflatable decorations, an excess of fake leaves, chalkboard art, fake sunflowers, and written word messages such as welcome fall, give thanks, harvest home, happy fall y'all, and autumn greetings.
Decorate your front porch using the color black minimally once halloween has passed in order to have a welcoming entryway that does not feel spooky.
Remember that less is more on most occasions.
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