Spring Porch Decor

I am so excited to have teamed up with a few other DIY and Home Decor bloggers for an Exterior Door Blogger Challenge! Sometimes I just need a little extra motivation to publish all of the projects I have going on at my 1886 Victorian home…which has lead us on quite the journey in our short time of owning it!

p.s. I took the photo of this gorgeous door below while we were in Strasbourg, France for Christmas 2019!

The front porch is seriously my favorite features of my 1886 Victorian home. It’s the whole reason I fell in love with it in the first place. Big huge wrap around porches are where dreams are made in my mind! … and I feel so incredibly privileged that I get to sit out there whenever I want!

Decorating the exterior is one of my favorite things to do! {…it’s something I’ve done at all of my previous houses! P.S. we’re on #4 now!} I’m sure my neighbors are always wondering why I’m always out there taking photos of it! haha! For my Christmas/winter porch, I kept my decor simple because the house itself is so pretty it doesn’t need a lot of extra decor, in my opinion.

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OK! Let’s start touring friends!! My pup-a-roos are so excited to show you around!

First impressions are everything, whether we like it or not. So, even during the demo and rebuild phase of my house, I always tried to have this area of my porch decorated. I felt like it made it feel loved, despite all of the junk it was going through. Plus, we weren’t about to live at the house for 1 1/2 years so I didn’t that to be apparent.

At the front door, I layered my entry way mats with a checkered rug and a “home” mat. I think the layering effect just makes it so much more inviting.

Next to the door, I have an antique, 25 gallon crock, that I filled with artificial plants! Ya’ll, I know what you are going to say. But, I bet if I hadn’t said anything, you wouldn’t have even known! Plus…I had a real fern in this crock last summer and due to the watering of it, it caused mold to grow all over my crock. So, not worth it!

On the other side of the door I have my cute little porch stool table that I built last year in a DIY challenge. I painted it my favorite green and placed a white, wooden birdhouse from our very first house back in Georgia {4 houses ago!! – I’m a sentimental guppy for sure!}

On the little table, I also placed a vintage, tea pot with amazing patina that my BFF gave me as a moving away present when we left North Carolina. I just love it and it warms my heart when I see it because I miss my friend so, so much. Placing artificial flowers inside spruced it right up!

Next to the door I added a year built plaque that I made. Every house that has been standing over 100 years deserves one in my mind!

My sweet, beautiful doorbell! ? Isn’t it the cutest thing you have ever seen?

As usual, I made my wreath – and have expanded to using wooden beads!

My front screen door is very tall, much taller than a traditional door now-a-days, so hanging a wreath it hard. I ended up adding a cup hook and then hanging my wreath from it. I sewed a scrunchy fabric cover to hide the wire!

My mom gave me this wire basket but it was super ugly painted in various colors…so I solved that with my favorite spray paint! By adding the artificial greenery and bows, it made it super cute!

As I mentioned, my favorite feature of my house is my porch…it’s a huge wrap around.

The wooden rocking chairs are from Cracker Barrel and I made the cushions and pillows.

You can never have too many wreaths in my mind!

The adorable bump out is the perfect spot for our fire pit table that my daughter and I bought my hubby for his very 1st father’s day!!

We have another seating area on the other side of the porch…and of course there’s another wreath! My coffee filter wreath!

The dogs love the porch because it’s a great runway…ehhh. ?‍♀️ Lol!

…and one more wreath on one of my other doors! haha! You guys, I can’t live without wreaths!!

And because there’s a bit of a mess at the end of the porch at the current moment {thanks to the lightning strike/house fire}, here’s the back side of the porch from a few listing photos of the house!

When we bought the house, the color was tan…and obviously we changed that! Throughout our rebuild, we ended up changing the main color of our home – back to a closer color that it was originally, but kept the cream trim and red pops of accent colors! We went bold and dark with Behr’s Mountain Pine color painted with Sherwin Williams! It’s a color that keeps you guessing…is it green or is it blue, depending on the light!

And there you have it my friends. 1. The longest post in the history of GITK, hahahaha! and 2. The entire porch and all it’s glory! I will always be thankful that the porch survived our house fire…HERE is an insane photo of the whole top of our house completely demoed off but the chimney still standing!

I’m so excited because pretty soon our landscaping will be up on the docket and hopefully we will have things looking MUCH better!

My Porch In Ever Season!

• Christmas Porch and Winter Porch and my Fire/Demo Time Winter Porch
• Spring Porch and Covid Porch
• Fall Porch
• Summer Porch

Check Out My Friend’s Porches!

Traci from My Simpatico Life!

Lynn from Living Large In A Small House

Kim from Cottage In The Mitten