Traditional Christmas Porch Decor

Create your own traditional Christmas porch decor with these simple ideas and helpful tips! 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… yippee! Today I am delighted share our porch all decked out for the holidays!

Traditional Christmas Porch Decor

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I admit, I always get a little nervous about decorating the outside of our home. We didn’t really have much exterior to decorate at our townhouse, so other than throwing a wreath on the door, I never did much outdoor decorating until we moved here a few years ago.

I am slowly getting the hang of it, though, and it gets a little easier each and every season. When I began decorating our porch for Christmas, one of the first things I did was figure out how to put a cute garland around the door.

I ended up using little white screw-in hooks like these, putting one at the top center of the door frame and then four down each side. I then took two pieces of 20 gauge floral wire and attached the garland at each hook. For once, it was a project that was easier than I expected! 🙂

doormat | garland and mini trees- Pier 1, no longer sold | door wreath | planters – Target, no longer sold

The wreaths on the windows were a new addition to our Christmas outdoor decor this year. (I used 24″ wreaths that I found at Hobby Lobby.) Again, I was nervous about hanging them, but it didn’t end up being difficult! I wrote out the simple tutorial in this post.

We live on a hill, so it can get pretty windy, but our wreaths are still firmly in place!

Once I figured out the logistics of hanging our items, all that was left to do was to add some pretty things… like pillows and lanterns and blankets and such. 🙂

plaid pillows (similar) | rug | chairs (similar) | garden stool | lanterns (similar)

(Quick tip: Filling just about any vessel with ornaments makes easy instant Christmas decor! 🙂 )

I like that our porch is big enough for a little seating area and a bit of decor, but it is also small enough that it is not overwhelming to decorate, which I appreciate as a novice outdoor decorator!

Even though I am a warm weather girl, I had kind of been hoping for a little bit of snow so I could get a shot of the house in all of its winter glory. I had just about given up hope, but then I woke up yesterday, and we had gotten a little dusting, so I grabbed my camera and ran outside!

I actually almost broke the camera too, because I didn’t realize that our driveway was a sheet of ice and I nearly slipped! Eeek! As you can tell by my ribbons going every which way, it was pretty windy, but I was still glad to be able to get a snowy photo. 🙂

Sources

If you’d like to snag any of the items I used for our traditional Christmas porch decor, I will link as much as I can below!

White Hooks to Hold Garland

20 Gauge Floral Wire for Garland

Doormat

Door Wreath

Garland and Mini Trees- Pier 1, no longer sold

Planters- Target, no longer sold

Plaid Pillows

Rug

Chairs (similar)

Garden Stool

Lanterns (similar)

You can take a peek at our Christmas decor inside the house in these posts:

Christmas Home Tour- Part 1

Christmas Home Tour- Part 2

Christmas Shelf Decor

Thanks for following along! Have a wonderful day!

This post contains affiliate links. For more information, see my disclosures here.