If you have a large front porch to decorate for Christmas, you’ll love these festive ideas! Join me as I showcase our whimsical, vintage outdoor Christmas decor. For even more inspiration, tour eight beautiful Christmas decorated front porches.
The garlands are hung and the lights are strung, ready to welcome Santa Claus, family and friends to our home for the holidays!
I’m excited to welcome you to the annual Atta Girl Says Christmas Porch Tour, featuring eight talented decorators.
In a hurry? Watch my web story for a quick tour of the Christmas front porch, then come back for all the decorating details.
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A Tribute to Our Friend
While I know you’re excited to see the Christmas decorated porches, I have to pause to remember a fellow blogger. We dedicate this year’s tour to our dear friend, Paula Skulina from Sweet Pea, who died in February after a five year battle with lung cancer. Paula has participated in this tour since 2017, and we are all really missing her this year.
Paula was just the sweetest person, so full of love for her family, her beloved dog Sherman and her students.
Her home was beautiful and full of vintage treasures. Paula had a knack for styling, but what I loved most were the stories she told about her decor. So many of her Christmas decorations were treasured family heirlooms. I’m so grateful she shared those memories with us.
While Paula is not here this year to tour with us, she’s still an important part of our group. I encourage you to visit her blog, Sweet Pea, for Christmas decorating inspiration, especially if you like to use meaningful family items in your holiday displays.
To honor Paula, we are also donating in her memory to LUNGevity and The Humane Society for Campbell County, Va. If you loved Paula and her blog, we encourage you to make a donation in her memory using the links above.
2022 Atta Girl Says Christmas Porch Tour
To decorate our large front porch this year, I used classic colors and some of my favorite vintage elements and handmade items, too.
I use a lot of the same items to decorate our porch for Christmas every year, but it’s never a one-for-one copy. This keeps things affordable, but also fresh!
Some of my favorite Christmas porch decorating tricks:
- Swap out ribbons and add floral picks to give wreaths a fresh look. We get the same style of fresh evergreen wreath every year, but it never looks the same.
- Use different colors or types of lights in garlands for a brand new look.
- Decorate porch Christmas trees with ornaments that are safe for the outdoors.
- Give items a fresh coat of spray paint to freshen and revive them for another season. (Last year, I repainted the black buffet on the porch before Christmas, and this year I gave our planters a fresh coat of matte black spray paint.)
- Forage the yard for pinecones and other natural elements. (Give pinecones a snowy look with this easy technique.)
- Incorporate red and green vintage items into your holiday displays. They don’t necessarily have to be Christmas decorations.
- Add a bit of whimsy to your porch decor.
I ditched the boring red bow that came with our evergreen wreath and replaced it with this red-and-white ticking stripe bow and an oversized farmhouse-style ornament.
The same ribbon is repeated on an oversized wreath hanging on the porch window. (The wreath was a $5 yard sale find that I’ve added pinecones, berries and floral picks to over the years.)
I’m normally a clear-lights-only person, but I had these cute faceted red string lights leftover from Halloween. So, I decided to add them to this mixed lived garland around the front door. I love the pop of color!
The white Christmas porch trees are planted in freshly painted urns.
The trees are decorated with an assortment of berries, bells, chalkboard tags, glittery grapevine stars and other outdoor-safe ornaments.
I always enjoy decorating this spot on our large front porch, but especially for Christmas!
This year’s display is whimsical and fun and features a mix of handmade and thrifted, vintage items.
I painted the elf sign (using this SVG cut file) several years ago for my Santa’s Little Helpers Christmas Porch. But it’s too cute to be consigned to storage.
I used some of the elves’ tiny Christmas sweaters and socks to make a garland! (Just kidding, they’re really Christmas ornaments from World Market!)
I styled the handpainted sign with some snowshoes and some other vintage items, including a plaid Thermos and red enameled bucket.
How cute is that cast iron snowman pan that my mom found at a yard sale?
I wish you could join me on our front porch for some Christmas Icebox Fruitcake and a mug of Red Velvet Hot Cocoa. But I hope you’ve enjoyed your virtual visit, just the same.
Be sure to pin this image to save these ideas for next year, and then go visit my blogging friends for more porch decorating inspiration and hospitality.
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Christmas Porches Tour
Be sure to visit all the participating bloggers for festive decorating inspiration for your porches, balconies, decks and other outdoor spaces.
Atta Girl Says // Southern Home and Hospitality // 2 Bees in a Pod // DIY Beautify
Worthing Court // Our Crafty Mom //
More Christmas Porch Decorating Ideas
To see how we’ve decorated the porch in years past, check out these blog posts. The 2018 porch tour is a must-see because Santa and Mrs. Claus dropped by for a visit!
- 2022 How to Decorate a Large Porch for Christmas
- 2021 Garden Inspired Christmas Porch Tour
- 2020 Whimsical Vintage Christmas Porch
- 2019 Santa’s Little Helpers Christmas Front Porch
- 2018 Santa-Inspired Christmas Porch Tour
- 2017 Buffalo Check Christmas Porch Tour
- 2016 Lodge-Inspired Christmas Porch Tour
- 2015 Schoolhouse Inspired Christmas Porch Tour
- 2014 Vintage-Inspired Christmas Porch Tour (featured in Cottages & Bungalows magazine)
Michelle James
Amy, once again you knocked it out of the park! I love all the little details, especially the gorgeous cast iron mold that your mom found. You also put together a lovely tribute to sweet Paula. Thank you again for hosting! 🎄 Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Pam
I always love to see what you’ve done to your porch for Christmas! I think my favorite part is the white trees in the urns! Very cute and a little unexpected! Or maybe it’s the thermos and snowshoes set up on the buffet! It’s all so cute and festive, it’s hard to pick!
Kate @ Southern Home and Hospitality
I look forward to your Christmas porch every year Amy! It’s always chock full of ideas. I wish I could fit a buffet on my porch – yours is always so cute and creative. I love that you use white trees in the urns around the door. And you make me want to add a garland over my door next year. Do you have a source for that pine garland? It’s so pretty and lifelike (maybe it’s real). Thank you so much for including me on this tour and have a wonderful Christmas!!
Cindy
Your Christmas porch is always one of my favorites Amy! I love the buffet area, the wreaths and garland and the vintage items you style so perfectly!
Vicki and Jenn 2 Bees in a Pod
Amy – yes, we definitely want to join you on your gorgeous porch for hot cocoa! We love your festive porch and attention to detail! Love it all! Merry Christmas!