This home’s entrance is all about layering outdoor holiday decor with traditional style.
With a few changes here and there, you could personalize the design to meet your own holiday vision.
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Winterize your porch swing to utilize the area year-round.
Make a Statement with a Wreath
Give any guest who comes knocking the jolliest welcome.
Instead of decorating your door witha traditional wreath, choose one that incorporates bells into the design.
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This way, when holiday guests arrive at your home, so does the sound of jingle bells.
Don’t worry if you fall in love with a wreath that doesn’t have them.
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Add Holly Everywhere
Give your front porch a holly jolly facelift.
Use a combination ofwinterberry hollyandwintergreen.
Both are hardy plants with bright red berries that shine with holiday spirit.
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This will give your front porch a degree of freshness that’s hard to achieve in the winter.
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Use an array of evergreen shrubs, red accents, and Christmas decor.
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Things to Include in Your Winter Planter
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Layer Holiday Decorations
The trick to creating a beautiful holiday-decorated entrance is layers.
But before you head out to shop for decorations, come up with a plan.
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Next, consider how you want to layer colors.
We filled ours with white birch logs, oversized pine cones, greenery, and ornaments.
Dress up the plain basket with red buffalo check ribbon to match the other elements on the porch.
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This falsecypress shrub is brightly colorful with draping branches.
We put the pot into a red basket found at our local crafts store.
Buy a variety of winter-friendly plants and place them around your porch wherever the decor looks bare.
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Welcome Guests with a DIY Doormat
Dress up your doorway with a festive welcome mat.
Here, a classic plaid print welcomes guests into the home.
If you have a double front door, consider using a runner, or two small mats.
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We made this plaid doormat using a basic jute runner, red paint, and a touch-up paint roller.
Decorate with a Garland
No holiday scene is complete without abeautiful evergreen garlandto tie it all together.
From there, drape each end over the corners of the doorframe, leaving the ends loose.
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Nails work best to hold your garland up, but removable adhesive hooks are a good substitute.
Incorporate Lighting
Add some texture to your design with a glass-paneled wood-framed lantern.
Pay attention to the safety instructions for your lampmost wood lanterns arenotmeant to be filled with real candles.
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Flameless LED candles are safe and look just as stunning.
Create an Outdoor Christmas Tree
What holiday setup is complete without a nod to one of our favorite traditions?
The largest element of this front porch design is the two dwarf spruce Albertas flanking the entrance.
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The real show-stopper, however, is not the trees but the handmade planter boxes they’re sitting in.
Made from light wood planks, these farmhouse-inspired planters are perfect for both the fall and winter seasons.
you’re free to build them yourself with our step-by-step instructions.
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Just as ornaments complete a tree, red berries add the perfect final touch to any winter display idea.
We snipped a few strands of greenery from our garland and paired them with faux holly berries.
Guests will be impressed by your attention to detail and your porch will be a standout.
