Moving on from Halloween, let’s pivot to our colorful fall front porch decor! I am all about minimal and easy. We want our front porch to be beautiful and most importantly, be FUN to put together. Complicated and fussy decor need not apply.
So come along for the ride because I’m giving you some SIMPLE colorful fall front porch decor ideas to easily implement, giving you a dashing home ready for the season.
Why it matters: design can actually be a grassroots bridge to connection and love. When you design spaces that are warm, inviting, and joyous, you give yourself and your community a gift.
Be *THAT* house. You know the one–the one that sparks joy and whose decor is a gift to everyone who passes by. We don’t do it for curb appeal, although that’s a nice bonus; we do it for happiness. We use our decor to express the joy living inside the home, outside.
How beautiful is that?
Colorful Fall Front Porch Decor
The key to colorful fall front porch decor is: EDITING.
When it comes to home decor, so often we run into trouble because we have so many good ideas and we try to do too many of them at once. This is a recipe for a stressful (and exhausting!) experience. So let’s skip it, shall we?
This wholesome desire for a beautiful fall front porch snowballs into a PROJECT and gets overwhelming fast. You went from wanting a nice design to having difficulty navigating, organizing, and implementing various ideas.
Let’s give ourselves a break. Let’s approach design and decor with slowness and simplicity instead.
Today I’ll show you easy ways to design a colorful fall front porch that is big on design and low on effort.
Whimsical and elegant
Did you do any of the pumpkin crafts I wrote about? This is the etching idea! You can successfully use your pumpkins as a decor element to make your fall front porch absolutely delightful.
To style:
Just have a craft night and pair your pretty pumpkins with a single color of mum. You can repeat both pumpkin and mum groupings along your front steps and porch.
Tonal with a twist
To style:
Pair white and princess pumpkins with fall florals in the same color family for an instantly elevated look.
Floral show
To style:
All you need here are a few different pumpkins in various shapes, sizes, textures. Stack them casually and raid your local nursery to put together a fall planter.
Planter flowers to consider: veronica, sunflowers, goldenrod, mums, marigolds, ornamental kale, purple lettuces, aster, dahlia.
Complementary hues
To style:
Princess pumpkins paired with peach and you’ve got yourself a party! Group large and small pumpkins (stack too!) with similar hued mums. Accent with a wreath of dried hydrangeas!
Tonal and textured
We are going for a single color family here and we want to repeat that with various flower offerings in multiple heights and textures.
To style:
Place in planters or baskets and you’re all set for a soft but colorful fall front porch.
Spray paint surprise
This DIY just requires spray paint! Opt for matte or chalk paint in any colors you want.
To style:
Place your largest pumpkins on the bottom step and have the sizes gradually get smaller with each step up. Group bright, neon, and pastel but keep the colors in a matte finish!
Simple floral
To style:
The easiest on this list! Just take notes from the previous floral show idea and put together a planter grouping of flowers, and repeat one of the flower colors for a wreath.
Color POP
Have a colorful front door? I’ve got you covered. Opt for white pumpkins and a colorful DIY pumpkin wreath.
To style:
Opt for large, medium, and small pumpkin groupings. Stack the medium and small pumpkins together and make your DIY wreath!
Updated traditional
This idea would work well if you have planters that are patternned.
To style:
For this colorful fall front porch decor idea, pick a single color family for your flowers (pictured above are mums and celosia), pair with ornamental kale and white pumpkins. If you have boxwoods, great! Use them as a backdrop.
If your planters are large, opt for medium pumpkins. Scale is important!
I would love to know which of these colorful fall front porch ideas you would do? If you’re a neutral lover, my next post is for you so don’t you worry!