Hey there! Hope everyone is doing well! Ive had lots of fun the last week or so changing our front porch out for Spring and Summer. We do a lot of living out there during the summer on warm evenings and nights, so, I really try to pay just as much attention to it as I do the inside. And its fun, so, why not, right?
Our front porch has been several different colors during the time that we have lived here and Ive never been satisified with any of them, hence, painting them over and over. Last summer I painted it a very dark chocolate brown, which I really liked at the time of the painting. Ive come to the conclusion that the reason I liked it so much is because it really did look like dark chocolate while it was in the can and as I was rolling it on. It was luscious and I wanted to it eat it. Of course, I didnt. Anyway, a couple of days after it dried, I hated it, but hubby would have thought I had lost my mind if I painted over it so soon with something else so I just lived with it until now. At this point, he kind of expects me to change paint colors with the seasons, so, changing it now, wouldnt be so crazy.
This year, Im going all out on the decor. :) And Im looking forward to finishing it up and blogging about the rest of the porch soon!
I think that one of my favorite things about decorating for Fall is that most of the things we use come from nature; hay bales, corn stalks, mums and pumpkins. Its natural and organic, which I love.
If you read my front door post, I told you that I also completely changed our wood screen door. It has also been painted many colors since we bought it years ago, so I stripped all the paint off with paint stripper, sanded it and stained it.
My hubby found this old porcelain sink but the finish was a bit icky so I painted it with spray paint textured with sand and filled it with pumpkins, twigs and antlers. I just liked the rough texture the sand spray paint gave it.
My hubby also found this old ladder that I just loved because of the paint spilled all over it. So I made burlap squares and stenciled letters onto them to spell BOO for Halloween and pinned them to the ladder rungs.
Because we love to add Halloween touches to our Fall decor, I also printed out silhouettes of crows and stenciled them on burlap and made pillows. After Halloween, I will simply flip them over and stencil something for Thanksgiving on the other side. This didnt cost anything since I already had a big roll of burlap and black paint. And I covered pillows that I already had.
I still have the mason jar tea light holders hanging from the porch ceiling. And I love the natural jute rope wrapped around the ugly chain on our porch swing.
I love taking pictures at dusk but Im still learning. The warm glow coming from the inside of a home at this time of day is so inviting.
I sure hope thats what people feel when they visit our home. :)
We recently replaced our porch swing with a newer one and I wanted to add a couple of pillows to it for fall. Black is a color I dont normally include in our decor but I thought black pillows for the porch for fall would be something different and add a touch of class, as well as, be perfect for Halloween. I had trouble finding the right black fabric so I purchased a black fabric shower curtain and attached this natural looking ribbon in an X pattern to the front. I love how they turned out.
I dont usually buy corn stalks, hay, pumpkins and mums in the fall for our front porch decor but I really wanted to this year. Usually I leave out the corn stalks but this year they seem really festive.
Im not a fan of the ugly plastic pots that mums come in so I simply wrapped them in my leftover burlap fabric and tied with a piece of hemp twine.
My hubby recently came across this old railroad kerosene light at an auction. We took the guts out and I put a candle inside. As much as Id like to keep it, it will be for sale in our shop. :)
He also found this vintage wooden egg crate so I turned it into a planter and stuck a pot of mums inside.
I also added a couple more to another crate that we used to have on the back porch. I love the time worn feel old crates add, as well as, the wood texture.
I like the wonderful muted colors of these heirloom pumpkins better than the orange kind when it comes to decor so I picked up a few. We save the orange pumpkins for the fun jack o lanterns we carve when it gets closer to Halloween. :) 
We also love lights on the porch all year long so we just string them up on the top inside of the porch. They create a warm cozy glow in the evenings that you cant help but enjoy. :)
