Take full advantage of nature’s beautiful autumn colors with these favorite fall front door ideas.
Fill the containers partway with soil to anchor the kale and give the pumpkins a boost.
Tuck in various gourds in different shapes and unique colors to give your display added interest.
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A faux lamb’s ear wreath completes thisfall door decorand front porch design.
Finish your pumpkins by wrapping a bow around the stems and nestling them with mums and flowering kale.
Rustic Appeal
Rett Peek
Woven baskets create a texture-rich display that warms up the look ofpotted mums.
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To amplify the color scheme, frame the front door with a grapevine garland accented with bittersweet.
Finish by hanging a coordinating floral wreath.
Weave the pod stems into a ready-made grapevine wreath for color in a snap.
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Tuck in small bunches of seededeucalyptus, applying dabs of hot glue as needed to secure.
Continue the fall door decor color scheme onto your front steps with yellow mums and classic orange jack-o'-lanterns.
Set 2 or 3 mums behind the kale.
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Add potting soil to secure the plants and conceal exposed soil with moss.
For a finishing touch, nestle an assortment of small pumpkins and gourds on each end.
Mix-and-Match Fall Display
We love all that fall offerspumpkins, flowers, and leaves!
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No need to pick a favorite with this mix-and-match design featuring several pretty fall decor ideas.
Here, pillows and awool blanketcozy up to a modern farmhouse bench.
Look for weather-resistant outdoor fabrics when outfitting your fall front porch.
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Pink, white, and yellow mums planted in galvanized buckets and baskets add a splash of color.
For the cool fall months, surround with purple mums and goldPlectranthus.
Flowering kale supplies another layer of purple-pink tones.
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Vintage Appeal
Pile pumpkins and other harvest gourds into a vintage wagon for a quirky fall planter.
Start with your largest pumpkins, then stack small varieties in the gaps.
Use a wood crate to raise containers of mums and tall grasses for a layered look.
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Glittering Leaf Garland
Carson Downing
Fall doesn’t have to mean red and orange.
Here, muted shades of cream and gray add a touch of sophistication to this fall front porch.
Pile pumpkins, lanterns, and pottedfall mumsalong the steps to create a welcoming front entry.
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Sunflower Hanging Vase
Helen Norman
Let avase of fall flowersdo the decorative heavy lifting.
Pack “Teddy Bear” sunflowers withrose hipsand maple leaves in a watertight, galvanized vase.
Then, hang it from your front door, replacing the water and foliage as needed.
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Or, for a no-fuss fall wreath, create this design using faux flowers.
Set next to your door, it invites color and conversation.
To make this arrangement, place pots ofcroton shrubsin the basin’s center.
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Surround the front with droopy dried wheat, and fill the back with tall grasses.
Lay dried Indian corn beside the display.
Stacked Pumpkins
Scott Little
Carved pumpkinsaren’t limited to October 31.
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Turn a fewpumpkins into bowlsby cutting off the top and scooping out the insides.
Use a pencil to trace a scallop design and carve.
A power drill and drill bits make quick work of adding decorative circles.
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Place a vase of flowers in one pumpkin and candles in others.
Display Cinderella pumpkins with their stems cut off for optimal stacking potential.
Whimsy Pumpkin Decor
Make visitors smile with a welcoming fall display.
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Encourage guests to stay a while with a white pumpkin painted with the word “gather.”
Pumpkin Filled Porch
Don’t toss the pumpkins after Halloween.
Finish the look with an oversize piece of art and a few fall-theme pillows.
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String leaves onto a wire wreath form until full.
Hang it on a wreath hanger with a pretty ribbon.
Hanging Gourd Vase
Embellish the railing that leads to your front door with this clever gourd vase.
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Cut a 1- to 2-inch hole near the neck of a swan gourd.
Remove a bit of the pith, and tuck inblack-eyed Susans, mums, and a Virginia creeper.
Use the curved neck to hang on your railing and greet fall guests.
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Farmhouse Fall Door Decor
Jacob Fox
This simple front entry welcomes fall with a sweet casualness.
Use wire to attach faux flowers to a basic white berry wreath form.
Hang two from your door with a thick burlap ribbon.
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Finish thefarmhouse front porchwith stacks of pumpkins, mums, and ornamental grasses.
Hay bales andapple basketslet you play with the heights of your fall display.
Cornstalks provide a striking vertical focus that takes up minimal space near your front door.
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For a longer-lasting look, opt for faux fruit.
Fill the center with bundles of faux red berries, pushing the bundles between the leaves for dimension.
Stack them next to the door to create a dramatic display.
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Pile on a variety of pumpkins and add a basket of fall mums.
Finish with aladder blanket rackdecorated with vintage seed bags.
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