4 Tips to Enhance Your Front Entry – Outdoor Seating and Decor
Discover 4 design and decorating tips to enhance your front entry! Beautiful outdoor seating and decor ideas
Adding greenery and a seating area at the front of your home is a gorgeous way to add curb appeal to your home.
Creating a warm and welcoming front entry not only greets your guests but is also for my family’s enjoyment too!
It’s so important for our homes to have fabulous ‘curb appeal’ for those reasons.
Here are 4 tips to enhance your front entry.
I’m also sharing how to make this beautiful Spring forsythia planter for your front door!
Porch Decorating Tip No. 1: Add Planters To Both Sides Of Your Front Door
Fill them with fresh or faux greenery or florals.
Choose a planter color that coordinates with the siding, brick and exterior colors of your home.
You can never go wrong with classic, timeless black planters! Black makes greenery and flowers pop as well!
Resin planters are more durable than cement or clay planters, are lighter to move around and less expensive.
DIY Outdoor Planter Idea:
Here is the DIY outdoor planter tutorial and supply list.
I filled my black urn planters with:
- dirt to create a base to support the florals, curly willow and greenery stems
- faux forsythia flower branches.
- These faux forsythia flower branches are gorgeous too!
- pussy willow stems
- curly willow branches
- 2 plug in exterior spot lights to light the planters at night. The spotlights are plugged into timers to automatically turn on at dusk!
- these exterior solar lights can light your planters too!
- top the planter with a boxwood wreath
Instructions for the plug in exterior spot lights:
- place the spot light in the middle of the planter
- place the cord to the back of the planter and place down the back of the planter to hide it.
- plus it into an extension cord that has a timer on it
- plug the extension cord to the exterior outlet by your front door
- For the planter furthest from the exterior outlet – plug the spotlight into another extension cord and run the extension cord underneath the front door (tuck it under the front door mat to help disguise it).
- Plug it into the extension cord that’s plugged into the exterior outlet
I tuck a white spotlight in each urn which we turn on at night – it gives such a pretty glow!
The faux forsythia branches look so beautiful!
Here is how the boxwood wreath looks on the top of the planter.
I placed each boxwood wreath on the top rim of each planter.
You can do this step first, when making your planter, so the wreath is in place before adding the stems and florals.
Check out these gorgeous DIY Boxwood and Twinkle Light Planter Decor Ideas!
Such a beautiful way to add style and glow to the porch or backyard patio!
Porch Decor Tip No. 2: Add A Wreath
Create a focal point for your porch by adding a large wreath to your front door.
A boxwood or eucalyptus wreath is timeless and perfect for all year long. It will add a huge amount of impact, style and texture!
Porch Decor Tip No. 3: Add Outdoor Seating
Comfortable seating for the porch is a fabulous way to add comfort to the porch – to sit with a cup of coffee or watch the sunset at night.
Beautiful seating also adds curb appeal and style to your home.
Choose outdoor arm chairs or swivel chairs.
If you have the room add 2 outdoor rocking chairs!
Durable resin chairs with outdoor Sunbrella cushions will hold up to sun and weather.
Porch Decorating Tip No. 4: Accent Pillows
Add a pop of color with outdoor accent pillows in durable outdoor fabrics.
You can also use indoor accent pillows and spray them with this waterproof spray to make them weatherproof!
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So pretty! I love the forsythia!
Looks so fantastic, Heather! Love the color combination.
Beautiful! My front entrance needs some work.
Amanda
LOVE LOVE LOVE , especially the forsythia urns…..PINNED
Oh I’m sure the spotlight in the planters looks great at night, what a great idea! I loved your wreath too, looks beautiful!
I love the planters, and the wreath! Pretty! And the spotlights are a great idea!
As I read your post just now, we had a sudden burst of snow! when will it end??? LOL! Thank you for at least giving me hope that someday Spring will settle in…. 🙂
Beautiful and fresh looking. I can’t believe you found the forsythia at the dollar store a good score for sure. I love the color of your front door as well, great idea with the spot lights!
Love the fresh yellow against your dark brown door! Now if the weather will just warm up again.
YOur porch is so pretty and the chairs and urns make it look so inviting. Love, love, love the wreath. The spark of yellow is perfect. Hugs, Marty
very very pretty! i need to decorate more
What a fresh and lovely look – perfect for spring!
Thanks everyone for your lovely comments! We had some very cold weather recently so I hope that spring is here to stay now!
Beautiful Heather! I’m picturing that beautiful sunset!
Heather,
Thanks for sharing your great tips at my Twirl & Take a Bow Party! Stop by House on the Way tomorrow to see your front entry featured!
Have a great week.
Leslie
Thanks Leslie – you are so sweet to feature my entry!!
I love that you put spotlights in your urns- that is a really great idea! You have such a nice entry space; I love what you’ve done with it.
Hi Heather, I really love this post. It is so helpful as I am about to embark on a front porch makeover. I love all your tips especially the urns with the spotlight in them. Once I get my post done I will be linking to your post as credit for my inspiration. Thanks so much!
Oh I’m so glad you like my ideas – can’t wait to see how yours turns out Kimerly!
That’s beautiful! I’d add a small block area of DrawItpaint dry erase on the door so people can leave a note and have markers on the door frame. Just go give people that personal touch! I have that for my door so the mailman can leave me witty notes.
Thanks for reminding me how important the entry is! Fabulous ideas!
I love it! These are great tips. I will have to keep them in mind as one of these days I really need to do something to my front entry……
Hoping you have a terrific Tuesday&
I wish i had porch where i could actually put seating. some great inspiration though. included in my round up post Heather!! thanks!
Genius! I have never thought of faux forsythia on the front porch! Thanks for the inspiration!
Kari
Great idea!! Hugs
Thanks Viri! I really love our covered entryway and try to make it welcoming for friends and family!
Hi Heather. I love the look of your front porch. I am obsessed with the urns. Can you tell me where you got them and how tall they are? I am just about to build a house and they would look great on my front porch. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your blog.
Hi Michelle!! Thank you so much for your compliments! I love these urns too – I bought them quite a while ago at Lowes – I’m not sure if they still carry them. They are about 25 inches high. Congrats on building a new home – how exciting!! I’m thrilled that you enjoy my blog! 🙂
Hi Heather,
I love the spotlight idea in the urn. How did you rig it up to hide the electrical cord?
Lynne
Hi Lynne! Thanks for your lovely compliments! I just draped the cord down the back of the urn. The greenery I used hides it well. I also used a light grey extension cord that matches our cement – that runs under the door and along the one wall so the color blends in. Hope that helps!
I absolutely love this! So pretty and elegant! I was wondering do you attach the wreath to the urn in any way to keep the wind from blowing it around? Thanks so much!
Brooke
Sassi Trash
Brooke – no the urn isn’t attached to the urn. It’s never blown off even when it’s windy! Hope that helps and thanks for your sweet compliments!!
Hi Heather, absolutely love what you did here, thank you for such simple (but great) ideas for the front porch!
I’m wondering…how did you attach the wreath to your glass door?
Thank you and keep the great ideas coming!!
Liz
Hi Liz! Thank you for your lovely compliments – so glad you like my font entry decor ideas!!! I attached the wreath with a large brushed nickel command hook – hope that helps!
Thank you Heather! I too have a glass door with panes and I was impressed with how “flush” your wreath had been hung. I am headed out the door right now to get one of those hooks, not to mention some pretty flowers/greenery to fill my urns, it is my project for the day! I am so glad I came upon your pin/blog!
THANKS AGAIN!
Liz
Great – have fun decorating your door Liz! I’m so glad you ‘found me’ too!! 🙂
Hi Heather,
I love the look for spring so crisp and clean! I am wondering if you painted your concrete on your porch. I have some stains from plants and thinking this might be a good solution. I am going to put my house on the market in about a year so wondering if this is a good idea. Thank you for your inspiration!
Hi Tracy – no our porch concrete isn’t painted. I think you’re right though – painting will hide the stains. I believe there is specific paint you can buy for concrete! Good luck selling your home 🙂
While my entryway isnt as large as yours I will apply these suggestions. Your entry is so welcoming.
Brilliant idea tucking in the spotlight in the planters. I’m going to have to try that out.
Thank you ALina! Glad you like my ideas – have fun decorating your front entry!
Please tell me the paint color, Heather…of your front door! My husband loves it too!
All my paint colors are listed here: https://www.settingforfour.com/paint-colors-home/ It’s gorgeous isn’t it Nicole?? Thanks for visiting! 🙂