Harley Sellers
Not gonna lie – our front porch leaves very much to be desired. We’ve been busy updating the inside of our house with new bathrooms and baby girl rooms and haven’t started working on the outside of it too much yet.
Fall is a beautiful time of year, but it can be hard to decorate your front porch when you feel like you don’t have enough space.
I’m going to do my best to give you all the tips and inspiration you need to have a fancy-schmancy fall front porch that you’ll love regardless of size. We have a wider front porch, but we don’t have a ton of real estate. It limits some things sometimes when it comes to decorating a front porch, but I’m happy to work with the space (or lack thereof) that we have.
The thing about layering doormats is it’s a great way to add personality to your fall decor outdoors. It lets people know what they’re getting into if they dare grace the front door of your home. It’s like they try to entice you into coming in with their amber and red leaves, alluring you until you can’t resist anymore. Next thing you know, you’re leaving with 3 bags of Doritos and mums for your little baby small front porch.
You can do things like pampas grass or a fall flower of some sort that you can get at a grocery store or even a Lowes/Home Depot type deal. I immediately think of a brownstone or a row house in Boston where you have a tiny front porch in the middle of a city, but the few trees are shedding their fall-colored leaves on the sidewalk in front of your place.
Your tiny front porch is lined with pumpkins like it’s straight out of a movie. But seriously, adding a few pumpkins of varying sizes into your fall porch decor can create some great dimension and even give the illusion that your space is actually bigger than it is.
Having a giant wreath when you only have a small front porch can feel a bit overwhelming for the space.
Along with the size, you want to remember that fall decor doesn’t have to be huge tacky signs and scarecrows and things that make it look like Hobby Lobby threw up on your front porch.
