This year’s front porch decor is foraged and a little wild, once again and I had a great time piecing it together from this and that found around our property. Here’s a look at our natural Christmas front porch 2022.
There are so many interesting plants in different shapes and textures growing around our property and in our gardens and I love to see how they change during the winter months. It’s not often that I take the time to slow down and look at everything happening outside during the colder months, so I always end up really enjoying the process of finding different branches to clip for our Christmas decor. There’s still a lot of beauty to be found out there even when everything seems so drab and grey. I like to challenge myself to notice new elements that I can use for my Christmas planters in front of the porch and I’m always delighted by the foresty combinations that I can come up with. It’s more about the process than the end result, really. 🙂 So let’s go on a little tour of my natural Christmas front porch for this year.
Pictured above: All-Weather Adirondack Chairs | All-Weather Coffee Table | Door Hardware | All-Weather Planters | Indestructible doormat | Brass bells (alternative here) | Lanterns | Large Scarf (used as a throw blanket)
Foundational Pieces for the Christmas Front Porch
I always start out my front porch plans by deciding on which containers I’ll use for all my greenery, as well as which accents I’ll use to make things a little more interesting. I used both my old square planters as well as my newer all-weather planters at the top and the bottom of the stairs. My old wood planters are getting a bit chippy, so they’ll need some more paint this spring, but I do think I’ll invest in another set of the all-weather planters because they’re just so easy and reliable through every season and never need any kind of maintenance.
I picked up these really classic looking lanterns this year (small here, large here). They’re something I think I’ll enjoy putting out on the porch year after year and I just think they really suit our house. Plus they’re definitely a quick and easy way to make your porch look instantly festive. 🙂
One of my favorite Christmas decorating ideas is taking random boxes and wrapping them in basic brown paper, then adding a bit of ribbon. It’s a classic, but affordable idea and I just think it’s one of those things that’s somehow better than the sum of its parts. If you live somewhere cold and dry with snow at this time of year, you can put these wrapped boxes right outside on your porch during the Christmas season and they really look so fun. It’s not so cold here in December and the weather can be a bit damp, so the boxes sitting on the covered part of the porch will probably be the ones that survive the best, but this was still fun to set up.
Different Foraged Elements Used for My Natural Christmas Front Porch
I always make use of lots of fresh cedar because we have just so much of it growing in our tree line. My other trick for filling things out quickly is to cut down a tree at the tree farm that’s just a little too tall for our kitchen, then use the extra branches that we cut off the bottom of the tree as the base for my planters. The balsam fir branches keep their needles for so long so they’re ideal for this and you can easily leave them out until spring if you want to keep some green on your porch.
Pictured above: All-Weather Adirondack Chairs | All-Weather Coffee Table | Door Hardware | All-Weather Planters | Indestructible doormat | Brass bells (alternative here) | Lanterns | Large Scarf (used as a throw blanket)
We have some great dogwood bushes growing on our creek banks with some really beautiful red branches, so I clipped a few of those too. Staghorn sumac is a tree that’s native to our area and I allowed a fairly large grove of it to take hold in one section of our property. It’s beautiful all year, but I recently realized that you can clip the fluffy red “horns” that remain after the leaves have fallen off and they make great accents in Christmas planters. I just grabbed a few to test out in the front planters, but I think I’ll definitely expand on this idea next year.
I grabbed a few twisty, gnarly maple branches that were in the woodpile after being blown down in storms this year and added those in too. They just appealed to me at the time. 🙂
You can read more about how I put together my front door swag here. These are so quick and easy to make.
So that’s our very natural Christmas front porch for this year. It might not be the most elaborate set-up, but I love having a festive porch that reflects our home and where we live. There’s just something a little extra special about that for me.
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Courtenay Hartford is the author of creeklinehouse.com, a blog based on her adventures renovating a 120-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario, Canada. On her blog, Courtenay shares interior design tips based on her own farmhouse and her work as founder and stylist of the interior photography firm Art & Spaces. She also writes about her farmhouse garden, plant-based recipes, family travel, and homekeeping best practices. Courtenay is the author of the book The Cleaning Ninja and has been featured in numerous magazines including Country Sampler Farmhouse Style, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Real Simple, and Our Homes.