Fall Porch DIY

As I mentioned in my intro post I love decorating for the seasons and fall is one of my absolute favourites (next to Christmas!). As soon as the first leaf falls I am out buying my pumpkins and haybales to do up my porch! I often get flack for it, but I do try to wait until the week the kids go to school (after Labour Day here in Canada).

There’s a few key ingredients to make your porch look put together and styled:

1. Choose a mixture of all of the fall things to work with – pumpkins of different colours and sizes, mums of different colours and sizes, ornamental cabbage (my fav!), lanterns, wood, haybales, cornstalks, etc.
2. Alter the height of everything by using your steps (if you have them) or placing things up on boxes, empty upside down planters, crates, etc so give height and dimension.
3. Angle your pieces so they fill the space – rather than just sitting a planter or a pumpkin upright, sometimes I angle them forwards so it appears as though everything sort of cascades together. I don’t like seeing gaps!
4. Don’t be afraid to guess and test! Try things and see how they look and if you don’t love it, pull it apart and start over! That is part of the fun 😉

If this is a bit much for you, keep it simple with some different sized pumpkins going up the steps and a few by the front door. The big mums are from Costco – by far the best place to find these big ones and they’re only $12.99! I’d love to say I went to a pumpkin patch and carefully picked out my pumpkins but the truth is I went to Zehrs, our local grocery store, when they first got them in and found everything I’d need there for much less $$! The white pumpkins were only $3.99, Cinderella pumpkins, rose and white pumpkins for $4.99! So good!

Then, I add some fun pillows, a cozy blanket, wreaths, a cute doormat (Hey There Pumpkin) and voila! I wish I could spend my days out here cozied up with a hot coffee. Let me know what you do with your porch in the comments – I’d love to know!

xo, Jodi