Glimmering Harvest Wreath
Add shine to a traditional harvest wreath with a touch of metallic paint. Divide purchased dried wheat into three groups. Lightly brush each group with a different color of paint (we chose gold, copper, and brass). Let dry, then tuck the stalks into a purchased wheat wreath, starting from the inside and working outward. Complete your creation by attaching a handwritten welcome to the wreath with hot glue.
Pumpkin-Lined Steps
Line your front steps with your favorite fall decor , such as gourds and rustic wooden pumpkins. Plant fall flowers -- we like Mexican sage, sedum, and mums -- in vintage ceramic planters, then arrange them among the pumpkins. Finally, hang a showstopping autumn wreath on your door for front entry perfection.
Easy-Carve Pumpkins
These pumpkins get a mod makeover from geometric cutouts in different sizes and patterns. Just hollow out the pumpkins, then stencil on your designs. Cut out each square with a pumpkin carving saw and arrange on your front porch . For a country-chic look, rest pumpkins on an antique wooden chair or bench.
Festive Fall Greenery
An old washtub is new again when you fill it with fall plants such as wheat stems, fir branches, and holly leaves and berries. Rest your repurposed planter on a porch , front step, or retaining wall , and enjoy.
Bright Front Door & Wreath
Your front door becomes its own decoration when you hang a wreath dotted with red berries. Complement your entry's fresh look with a stack of white and orange pumpkins and oversize pots of fall plants. A pretty floral mat adds a pop of color .
Pumpkins on a Chair
This year, carve personalized pumpkins to welcome your friends and family to your home. Buy a small, medium, and large pumpkin, then etch your monogram into each one. Try using different fonts and styles for a fun fall touch. Rest your masterpieces on an old chair or stool to show off your work.
How to Carve Initials Into a Pumpkin
Learn how to carve your initials into a pumpkin in just a few easy steps.
Decorative Bucket on Door
Seasonal freshness comes courtesy of live hydrangea and hypericum in this hanging bucket. Simply attach a decorative hook to your door and hang an antique bucket filled with water and the fall blooms. The seasonal display stays fresh for a few days -- enough time for your big fall gathering or for greeting unexpected fall guests.
Stacks of Pumpkins
For a grown-up twist on jack-o'-lanterns, just hollow out pumpkins and place a pillar candle in each. Then, layer an old wooden table with the pillar pumpkins, gourds, and squash for a porch-perfect outdoor display that will provide a warm welcome all season long.
Pumpkin Topiary
A topiary of pumpkins adds a touch of drama to your front entrance. Look for pumpkins in different sizes and colors , then rest the largest pumpkin on a planter. Use wooden skewers to secure each smaller pumpkin to the next, and place near your front door.
Monogrammed Doormat
Turn a plain coir mat into a custom fall welcome. Print a letter onto cardstock and cut it out. Pin the cardstock letter on the mat and cover the mat with spray paint. To add dots, repeat the process, masking off the letter before painting the dots.
Fall Corn Garland
Capture the season's charm in a rustic garland made with ears of fall corn and dried husks. They range from ruby red to yellow to purple, so you can pick the colors that best match your decor . Create hooks by twisting small eye screws into the wide end of each ear. Bend the husks into loops and seal the pointy ends together with hot glue. Finally, string the ears onto twine, alternating with corn husks as you go. Hang above your door or along your porch eaves for a simply beautiful effect.
Gourd-Filled Urn
Your summer urn does double-duty in this quick and easy fall decor idea. Just fill the urn with gourds, squash, and small pumpkins for a pretty front porch accent.
Decorative Fall Urn
This gorgeous arrangement is freewheeling and creative -- perfection not required. Build a mound of cut plastic florist's foam pieces inside a plastic urn. Cover with Spanish moss (available at crafts stores), keeping the moss in place with green pins. Make a collar of burlap around the urn and build your arrangement with artificial leaves, berries, Chinese lanterns, dried lotus pods, and other fall favorites from the floral selection of your local crafts store. Green pins help keep everything in place.
Editor's Tip: Take your arrangement inside if you're expecting rain. It works best on a covered porch .
Leafy Monogram
Celebrate the changing season with a leafy monogram door marker. Just paint a papier-mache letter and let dry, then hot-glue dried or silk leaves to the letter in layers. Finally, hot-glue a wire loop to the back of the letter for hanging. If you have a metal door, replace the hanging loop with magnets.
Wreath of Leaves
Adorn your door with this surprisingly simple autumn wreath. Gather leaves and dry them or purchase pliable dried leaves from a crafts store, then use small scissors to cut a slit in the center of each. String each leaf onto a wire wreath form, then hang with a festive ribbon and additional leaves.
Gourd Decor
Scatter and stack roly-poly gourds around your front entry for a pretty autumn accent in soft, creamy colors . Try placing them in country-style baskets, antique-inspired metal tubs, or classic wooden trays for a fun, rustic touch. Pots of ornamental kale and fall flowers complete the look.
Welcoming Pumpkin Wheelbarrow
Place an antique wheelbarrow or old wooden wagon near your door and fill it with a cheery mix of fall gourds, berry vines, and pumpkins. Then, use paint, permanent marker, or sticker letters to decorate the pumpkins with a friendly fall welcome.
Pumpkin Garland
Brighten up your outdoor windows, porch , or patio with a quick and easy garland made from fresh leaves and mini pumpkins. Use a small, fine drill bit to create holes that go through each pumpkin from stem to base. Next, cut a piece of twine that spans the area you want to hang your garland (be sure to leave some extra twine on each end for hanging). Tie a knot in one end of the twine, then string your first pumpkin onto the twine. Tie another knot on the other side of the pumpkin to secure it. Knot some fresh leaves onto the twine, then continue alternating pumpkins and leaves until your garland is complete.
Hanging Gourd Vase
Decorate your front gate or porch railing with a natural hanging vase made from a swan gourd. Just cut a 1- to 2-inch hole near the gourd's neck, then hollow out enough space for fall flowers such as mums, black-eyed Susans, and Virginia creeper.
Harvest Horseshoe
Bring the season's harvest to your front door with a homemade wheatgrass wreath. (Say that three times fast!) Purchase a U-shape foam wreath, or cut off the top portion of a circular wreath to create the base. Then, collect the wheat in small bunches and wire together the stems of each as you go. Beginning at the top of the wreath, use U-shape florist's pins to fix a bunch to the wreath. Repeat this step as you work your way down, making sure the top of each bunch covers the stems and wires of the one before it. Trim the stems short on the bottom bunches. To finish your wreath, use hot glue to attach a cluster of grass tails, nuts, seeds, or acorns in the center.
Harvest-Inspired Fall Front Entry
Let the natural elements of a fall harvest inspire your front entry decorations for the season. Stuff the bottoms of vintage harvest baskets with newspaper and fill them with fresh apples. Attach dried cornstalks to porch posts with wire hidden under burlap, then use Indian corn, gourds, and vintage rakes and pitchforks to add to the harvest theme. Pots of red mums and red fall leaves add vibrant color , straw bales add layered height, and the front door wreath -- a head of kale surrounded by faux apples, seedpods, and leaves secured with florist's wire to a foam base -- brings the natural look together.
Fall Front Entry with Paper Lanterns
Use orange paper lanterns as an inexpensive and easy way to decorate your front entry for fall . To re-create this look, affix smaller lanterns in various shades of orange to bamboo stakes using light-color string; put the stakes in planters on either side of the door. Continue to add symmetry with pumpkins in various sizes piled below the elevated planters. Make the look wow-worthy with a larger-than-life orange paper lantern hung from the center of the front entry.
Natural Fall Wreath
Use muted colors and natural elements to decorate your fall front entry with a classic and easy-to-achieve look. Accent your front door with a store-bought square magnolia wreath and embellish with twigs, seedpods, nuts, berries, wheat, and leaves, securing them to the wreath using florist's wire.
Video: How to Make a Pumpkin Planter
Watch how to create a fall flower planter out of a pumpkin. This clever project is perfect for easy entryway decorating .
Antique-Key Fall Pumpkins
These key-encrusted pale pumpkins are the perfect addition to a natural-color fall entry. To get the look, arrange four pumpkins on a side table, and spell "fall" using antique keys secured with long straight pins.
Living Monogram Wreath
Give your front entry a bold accent for fall with a living monogram wreath. Construct a letter form from 2-inch cedar boards, a plywood back, and chicken wire. Spray-paint the form a bold color , then fill with sphagnum peat moss and succulents. Add hooks to the back of the letter to make it easy to remove, clean, and add new plants.
Pumpkin House-Number Sign
Greet guests with a fun house-number sign made from pumpkins. To make, stack small, medium, and large Cinderella pumpkins (removing the stems of the two bottom pumpkins) and trace stenciled number outlines using a crafts knife. Scrape the pumpkin skin from the stenciled numbers to reveal the lighter pumpkin flesh.
Entry with Mums & White Pumpkins
Give your home a symmetrical look by incorporating overflowing potted mums and pumpkins, plus a pretty wreath. Place two pots of burnt orange mums on every other step and line with simple white pumpkins. Hanging planters and Chinese lanterns is an easy way to finish the autumnal look.
Simple Fall Entryway
Skip the complexity -- simple designs can shine in the fall . A feathery grass wreath, a bright orange pumpkin plopped atop a chair, and a pretty pot of mums are enough to give your porch the harvesttime look it needs.
Porch with Monogram & Mums
Nothing says fall like gorgeous assortments of chrysanthemums. Place them in brightly colored pots and set them on each step. To give the front door more personality, use wood glue to attach cut wood dowels to a plywood monogram. A clear polyurethane spray protects the finish from outdoor elements .
Monogrammed Planter
Make your house feel like a home with planters that call out your family's initial. This planter is actually a painted wooden trash can . The small frame, featuring a clip art letter, is attached with hot glue. A smattering of mums and pumpkins, plus a high-reaching collection of twigs, completes the fall feel.
Potted Autumn Arrangement
An oversize tin planter is the perfect way to display your fall floral arrangements, and a tone-on-tone stenciled design makes it unique to you. This porch-ready planting includes purple fountaingrass, flowering kale, coralbells, creeping Jenny, and marguerite daisy.
Leafy Fall Wreath
Artificial leaves and berries ensure that your wreath-crafting effort lasts for years. To make this, cover a foam wreath with Spanish moss. Alternate the leaf colors as you build the wreath in a circle. Use green pins to keep leaves in place. Attach pepperberries with pins to finish.
Colorful Fall Porch
Take a color scheme through the season with pretty, inexpensive fall accents. Outdoor pillows add pick-me-up to a porch swing, while a small throw rug keeps the palette going. Make a simple table by sandwiching two colorful tubs between slabs of wood. We added wheels to the baseboard to make it mobile.
Creative Wreath & Door Path
Pops of fall color are easy to achieve (and don't have to be costly to create)! Glossy red paint (spray paint works best) transforms a grapevine wreath from country to cozy. An ordinary outdoor rug is transformed from basic gray to autumn splendor with stencils. Start with an outdoor rug with a short, tight nap. Make your own stencil by tracing a leaf onto poster board (we used tulip poplar leaves for our pattern). Cut out the stencil, place on the rug, and roll on the color. Continue until you're satisfied with the design. Finish off the look with a colorful assortment of potted mums.
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