I think Christmas decorating starts on my front porch. I start decorating Thanksgiving weekend with lights and greens, and move into more decorating the first and second week in December. Decorating the front porch sets the tone for the rest of my Christmas decorations.
These front porch Christmas decorations are sure to inspire you as much as they are inspiring me. Spend some time looking through them while you’re taking a break from making Thanksgiving dinner, and think about what you already have in your decorating stash.
Follow my Christmas Pinterest board for more Christmas Decorating Ideas!
20 Wonderful Ways to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas
Front Porch with Christmas Balls and Pointsettias | Centsational Girl – Simple yet elegant, I love the contrast of white and red on this front porch. For those in cold states, use silk pointsettias for the same effect.
Lots of Front Porch Ideas for Christmas | Style Estate – Tons of amazing ideas to inspire your creativity! My favorite is the giant elf stocking.
Lanterns filled with white lights on top of a planter urn with a live wreath | Amanda Carol at Home – Take a black lantern from Ikea and fill it with fairy lights. Add some greens leftover from trimming your Christmas tree and you’re all set.
Christmas Lanterns | Hometalk – 2 more options for filling lanterns. Save the damaged Christmas balls for this project.
Stacked Wreaths on Front Door | Amanda Carol Interiors – Take 3 $10 wreaths, add a simple colored bow, and hang them on your front door. This decoration works best if the wreaths are secured at the top and bottom, or they’re hung on a little used door.
Hanging lanterns grouped on a porch | House to Home – For those with large porches, cluster hanging lanterns at one end of the porch or another out of the main traffic to your front door. This idea would be for a Dogwood or Japanese Maple tree near a front porch.
20 Amazing Ways to Decorate Your Front Porch for #christmas!Click To TweetDIY Decorative Planters | Paper Blog – Give those discarded plastic pots from summer plants new life with these easy Christmas planters. Don’t buy the sticks. Just grab some from your yard and spray paint them or not.
Believe Sign and Giant Ornaments | Creative Raisins – We have all scrap wood lying around perfect for this simple project.
Tomato Cage Tree with Lights | Room Mom 101 – Your tomato cage can have a second life as a Christmas tree on your front porch. Wrap it in greens and lights, or just lights.
Vintage Winter Porch | Eclectically Vintage – Find wooden boxes at your local flea market, or pick up a few boxes of clementines, share the fruit with friends, and use the boxes to create some vintage Christmas decor on your front porch.
Red Pillow with Black Belt | Home Stories A to Z – Use a leftover scrap of red fabric for the pillow, or pick up one from the clearance section in your local fabric store. Make it a no sew project by stapling the seams together in the back.
Joy Trees | The Idea Room – You can find most of what you need for these cute trees at the thrift store and in your fabric stash. If you need to buy the letters, use coupons like Michael’s Craft Store’s 40% off coupon.
Christmas Decorating Projects for the Front Porch
HOW TO MAKE EASY DIY TOMATO CAGE CHRISTMAS TREES | Camp Clem
How to Hang Wreaths on Exterior Windows | Between Naps on the Porch
Christmas Sharpie Tree | Finding Home
Christmas Window Using Recycled Window
DIY Christmas Porch Light | In My Own Style
Faux Snowballs | Cottage in the Oaks
Wooden Pallet Christmas Tree | Over the Edge Design
Apple Basket Christmas Decor | Linley House
How to Make a Real Ivy Topiary | On Sutton Place
DIY Porch Lighting | On Sutton Place
Simple Advent Calendar Using Tags and Binder Clips
Christmas: Organizing Tips, Recipes, Crafts, Activities, and Gift Ideas
I was just reminded today to take down Halloween. Might as well get a head start on Christmas.
Great roundup! I love that big Believe sign, and that Santa pillow is too cute! Thanks for sharing!
Our front porch is home to all of our recycling bags and boxes as we have no where else to put them – I might have to start finding a new home as I’d much prefer to decorate it for Christmas instead!
Thanks for all of the ideas! I love the lantern with the lights in it, and the hanging ornaments. I just moved and have a porch for the first time, so I will have to try one or two of these ideas.
Thanks for linking up to Pin Worthy Wednesday, I have pinned your post to the Pin Worthy Wednesday Pinterest Board. I love decorating for Christmas and my front porch is just as important as the rest of my house – love these ideas.
I wish I had a front porch to do some of these ideas! We only have a little stoop. Love the ideas, though.
You should see how small my porch is! Just pick one idea like decorating your front door, and it will look awesome.
What a great collection of ideas! The bad news….I just spent a lot of time browsing instead of doing what I am supposed to be doing today! Thanks for a great post!
Love all these great resources! I guess there’s no excuse anymore for us to have a bare front porch at Christmastime….
What a bunch of beautiful ideas. See? This is why they invented Pinterest – to help us creatively impaired folks to get some great ideas. Thanks!
I have such a large front porch, but never know what to do with it– can’t wait to try a couple of these ideas!!
I love all of these ideas! I have a great porch for decorating but my dog tends to get into the decorations so I don’t put many up.
Some really great ideas for decorating! Maybe I need to decorate my patio this year. Who am I kidding though? It’s difficult for me to get my HOUSE decorated before Christmas.
Well, you’ll be making some pretty awesome cookies, I’m sure, knowing you!
My front porch is in need of a Christmas overhaul. This is great inspiration for me! THanks for sharing!
Mine, too! It’s very bare since I cleaned off the Halloween decor.
Love all of your tips, I totally agree that the decor starts at the front door. I did my porch this year and I just love it.
Thank you for this! I was just working on my front porch yesterday, and this helps a ton! Thank you so much for sharing at the (extra-long) #homematters linky party! A brand new party starts TOMORROW! We hope to see you then!
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