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Curb Appeal Ideas and Porch Decor Tips

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Hello friends! I’m back today with loads of late summer curb appeal decor ideas and pictures of our front porch, our beautiful front flower gardens and our home as you see it from the street! I’m giving you a bird’s eye view of our gorgeous stone walkway, stone steps, our covered porch and our beautiful flower beds in late summer bloom!  I’ll be talking about our siding and exterior finishes too – two questions I get asked a lot!

Before I decorate for fall I wanted to capture our home in full late summer splendor – our flower beds right now look the best they have all summer!

I hope this post gives you some ideas if you are thinking of adding an inlaid stone pathway and steps to your home.

Increase your home's curb appeal with these design and porch decor ideas that will add value and beauty to your home! Stunning ideas for flower garden beds, porch decor and door color.

Curb Appeal Ideas and Porch Decor Tips

This is our abode! It’s a two story home with an inlaid stone path that runs along the front and beautiful stone front steps with stone columns. I love the curb appeal of our home – it’s one of the reasons that we bought it 4 years ago!

Ou roof color is a midtoned brown. You can see a peek of it here. There is gorgeous scallopped trim at the front peak of our home, big windows that let in lots and lots of bright light.

Of all of our military postings and homes that we’ve lived in – this home has by far the best curb appeal we’ve ever had. 

The front of our home just makes me smile every time I pull into the driveway!

The front of our home just makes me smile every time I pull into the driveway!

The siding is a beige color with a sage green undertone – it’s a beautiful neutral and looks gorgeous with all of the greenery around our home. The lower level of our home is stone – a beige color – so pretty!

This is the front view of our home. I love the wide curving stone steps, pillars and walkway!

The flower beds and trees were all designed by a landscape designer that the previous owners hired…. and wow – they did an amazing job!

I love this beautiful ornamental grass – it looks so pretty when the wind is blowing, waving back and forth!

There are also two yellow flowered sedums in this bed as well – all of these plants are very drought tolerant.

Our home's front flower beds contain ornamental grasses and sedum - both low maintenance plants for your flower gardens!

For summer I added a sprawling flowering urn on top of the two stone pillars. I’ll switch them out to mums or purple fountain grass next month to decorate for fall.

Container gardening idea: Add an urn filled with trailing flowers to each side of your home's front steps for great curb appeal!

Container garden - thriller, filler, spiller.

Flower pot with trailing plants

This is the front of our house! Door color SW Weathervane. It’s a beautiful, rich chocolate brown – almost black! I chose this color with a lot of thought in mind. Our roof is brown, our siding is beige-green, our stone steps and walkway are beige. This Weathervane color goes with all of these hard finishes and ties them all together. It lets all of the green plants pop and looks amazing with our tall black urns. Every wreath I own looks great with this door color too!

Our home has pretty curb appeal with the gorgeous design of these inlaid stone steps, stone pillars and covered entryway.

The curved inlaid stone steps give us lots of room to walk up to the door – it certainly came in handy on moving-in day!

I love all the irregular shapes in the stone and it’s a pretty beige-gray color.

The stone walkway, steps and stone pillars add so much appreciated value to our home. 

The stone and the design add much more value compared to cement steps or plain brick steps – both of which I’ve had in the past!

See our gorgeous inlaid stone front steps with a wide curved design - add a lot of curb appeal to our home!

This is another flower bed at the front…with a black lamp post. I really love seeing the lamp light glowing at night – it’s so welcoming!

All of the flower beds have a stone border that matches the steps and pathway.

This was all installed by the previous owners! I can’t take credit for ANY of it! They certainly did a magnificent job planning and designing the steps, path and plants for the beds.

How to disguise a lamp post and make it add to the curb appeal of your home!

White Coneflower – a sun loving, drought tolerant plant. The bees and butterflies love it!

The plant with the green spikey leaves is Purple Iris – the flowers are done blooming but the foliage is pretty!

White Coneflower - a sun loving, drought tolerant plant. The bees and butterflies love it!

Coral Bells – the bees and butterflies love this plant too!

Coral Bells - the bees and butterflies love this plant

May Night Salvia: I planted two of these in this bed to cover the base of the black lamp post – it’s bushy and loaded with flowers!

Purple veronica: I planted two of these in the flower bed to disguise and cover the base of our black lamp post - it's bushy and loaded with flowers!

This bumblebee loves this plant! Somehow I lucked out taking the shot – you can see it’s wings moving in a blur!

Bumblebees love purple veronica flowers!

Bumblebees love purple veronica flowers!

All of these plants are super l0w maintenance and easy to care for!

Here’s our inlaid stone pathway – I love the design – it has a very organic, winding shape. It’s made from square and rectangular shapes laid horizontally and vertically to give it lots of interest!

There is an inlaid stone border on each side and a raised stone brick border for the flower beds.

See our inlaid stone pathway - I love the design - it has a very organic, winding shape.

This is the flower bed right in front of the house – juniper groundcover, hostas, salvia and the big green bush at the back is a burning bush! It turns a gorgeous bright red in the fall.

See how our front flower beds add curb appeal and beauty to our home!

Juniper groundcover

Juniper groundcover

See our inlaid stone pathway and flower beds with hostas!

I’ve divided this hosta up many times and it always grows back so big and lush! I love getting free plants from dividing the ones I have!

I've divided this hosta up many times to make lots of free plants!

Inlaid stone brick path that runs along the front of our home - what a beautiful landscape design.

…and here’s our home lit up at night! Don’t forget about adding night time curb appeal to your home!

I put a floodlight on timers in each of the black urns. When it turns dusk the floodlights turn on and shine upwards into the curly willow and birch branches – it’s such a pretty glow at night!

I also have outdoor flameless candles on timers in the lanterns that twinkle at night.

See how to add curb appeal to your home at night by adding lights to urns and lanterns.

Front porch decorated with lights in urns at night.

See Part 2 of my Front Porch Tour – I’m sharing details on our porch decor, porch furniture, urns, wreath and our front door color!

I hope you enjoyed seeing our front porch and gardens!

Adding a urn of flowers to your porch adds great curb appeal!

Plants: May Nite Salvia, Hosta, Juniper, Coral Bells, White Coneflower, Purple Iris, Burning Bush, Mixed Flowering Containers

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Bring it home: Curb Appeal and Porch Decor Sources

Wicker Armchair

White side table with removable tray (similar)

Shell Wreath (similar)

Black Urn

Outdoor, weatherproof flood lights  – in urns to light them up at night 

Light Bulbs for Flood Lights in urns

Outdoor Timer for lights in urns

Outdoor Extension Cord for lights in urns

Birch Branches (similar)

Curly Willow

Faux Boxwood Garland on urn

Wreath on Urn

Black Hurricane Lanterns

White Hurricane Lanterns

Outdoor Flameless Candles with Timers

DIY Whitewashed Terra Cotta Plant Pots

Great books to read – or gift! – all about curb appeal:

Creating Paths and Walkways – DIY path and walkway designs, with gorgeous inspiration photos, supplies and details on the how-to process of creating your own!

Porch Living – a stunning book on porch decor ideas, planters, hanging baskets, outdoor fabrics and furnishings!

 

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Filed Under: Curb Appeal, Decor, DIY Tagged With: curb appeal, Decor, entryway, porch, summer

heatherHeather is a Designer and the owner of the Interior Design and Lifestyle website SettingforFour.com Heather offers online EDesign services Instagram and family friendly, elegant interiors.

 

 

Comments

  1. Debrashoppeno5 says

    August 27, 2016 at 8:25 am

    What a beautiful piece of property you have. And with the way you added the details it really is gorgeous.

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    • heather says

      August 27, 2016 at 10:14 am

      Thank you for your lovely compliments Debra! You made my day 🙂 xo Heather

      Reply
  2. Linda Hickey says

    August 27, 2016 at 8:37 am

    Love your out door porch.

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    • heather says

      August 27, 2016 at 10:12 am

      Thank you Linda!! I’m glad you do! Have a beautiful weekend 🙂

      Reply
  3. [email protected] Designs says

    August 27, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Heather, you must smile every time you drive up to your home as it is beautiful with fabulous curb appeal…you must think, “ah, I am home!” 🙂

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    • heather says

      August 27, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      That’s exactly what I think Shirley! I love our home so much – it gives me a warm hug every time I drive up and walk thru the front door! I hope our guests feel the same way too. I really enjoy walking around the front of our home in the morning with coffee cup in hand to see what new blooms have appeared and just soak up the beauty! 🙂 Thanks for your sweet compliments and have a beautiful weekend!

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  4. Heather says

    August 31, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Your home is lovely. Love the colors and the stone walkway. I have to tell you, though, the purple flowers with the bee on it is May Night salvia, not Veronica. Not a big deal, but if someone tries to copy the design, it won’t look the same…

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    • heather says

      August 31, 2016 at 10:52 pm

      Oh my gosh Heather – thanks so much for passing on the correct plant name! I got it mixed up with the veronica I planted out back! You are right it won’t look the same. I’m correcting it in my post right now. Thank you for visiting and have a beautiful week! xo Heather

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  5. Danni Black says

    February 14, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    I really love the black lamp post that you have in front of your flower bed! My husband and I have been wanting to install something like that for a while now so I’ll have to keep that idea in mind. We have been looking at some different home decor for our front porch so hopefully we can find some great things to up our curb appeal.

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  6. Becca says

    June 24, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    Okay, flameless candles on timers is GENIUS!

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    • heather says

      June 26, 2019 at 1:26 pm

      Exactly!!! I’m obsessed with them and have them in my house too! They are so cozy!! xo Heather

      Reply
  7. Kristyn says

    June 25, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    What beautiful ideas!! I love pretty porches & love changing mine out. Yours is so pretty!

    Reply
  8. Amy L Huntley says

    June 26, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    What a beautiful yard! Your front porch is Amazing!

    Reply

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