15-Minute Fall Porch Decor

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Decorating A Porch for Fall

These fall decorations were a quick and easy way to decorate our fall porch!

easy fall porch decor

I wasn’t planning to do anything major to our front porches for fall… but then I kind of did. It all started with $4 mums and then quickly spiraled into flea market pumpkins and some thrift store baskets. But here’s the thing… it was SO EASY!

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colorful fall mums for front porch

A lot of my outdoor/ holiday decor is dictated by what I find at the stores… so for the front porch, it was all about the plant selection.  I picked up some sedum and smaller mums from The Home Depot and then found those gorgeous 8″ pots for $4 at Whole Foods of all places. The large pumpkins were dirt cheap at the flea market!

mums from Whole Foods

I started by placing two large mums on the base of the columns, and then I stacked two pumpkins next to them.

start with pumpkins on porch

From there, I placed more 8″ mums on each step and filled in around them with the smaller mums and a few ugly squash plants.  I grabbed a couple $1 baskets at Goodwill, and shopped my house for a few others. I didn’t have enough to cover every plastic pot, but I’ll keep my eye out for more.

mums and pumpkins on our porch decorating our front porch for fall

We don’t really use this door, but I layered a natural sisal doormat under my DIY Wooden doormat to fill the space a bit more. Similarly, I saw that pillow at Homegoods on sale and LOVED the bright colors. I also appreciate the contrast of the modern white rockers with the classic architecture of our porch.

la layered doormats on front porch

bright pillow on white chair

I didn’t do much to the other front porch since that’s where we sit each morning to wait for the bus, and I have zero faith that my children wouldn’t destroy anything I put out there. I popped some mums, decorative peppers and lambs ear into baskets on either side of the door and hung the wreath I made last year. My rainbow doormat is in great shape layered under that “welcome” mat… the colors work fairly well with the flowers!

plants next to door on front porch

front porch with fall flowers

I’m not sure what else I can tell you about our porch decor… I was lucky enough to grab a bunch of mums for really low prices, and that made all the difference in the world. Varying the sizes helped and I stuck with three colors. If I find a few more medium size white pumpkins, I might scatter then around on the steps to add some different shapes, but also to conceal the plastic pots a bit more. For now, I’m just trying to remember to water my mums!

COlorful fall front porch pumpkins and mums for fall

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4 Comments

  1. I love all of your pumpkins and goUrdS. We have has several massive hail storms in Northern Colorado so they are bit hard to fond here.

  2. Love this! Are you still moving? I hope not… I love seeing your house (though I think you could make any house look incredible!!)