Christmas Porch Decorations

Whether you're searching for a striking addition to your existing holiday porch design or celebrating your first Christmas in a new home, we've come up with Christmas porch decoration ideas that will spark your creative side. Discover the inspiration that speaks to you and experience the festive spirit of the holidays every time you, your family, and guests arrive to your home this Christmas!

Front Door Christmas Decor
Door Flanking Decorations
Decorating Porch Railings
Porch Column Decorations
Hanging Porch Decorations

The front door of your home is the focal point of your entry and often the first place that is met by the eyes. Keeping this in mind when planning your Christmas porch decorations, it is helpful to visualize your design from the center, outward beginning with the door. This area offers a wealth of opportunity for inspiring holiday cheer every time you arrive home and your neighbors drive by.

Christmas Garland

Try outlining the trim of your door with Christmas garland to complete your door design! The secret to creating perfectly placed garland around your door is to skip the hammer and nails or hooks and use a garland hanger instead. Installation is as easy as 1,2,3 and your garland will lay perfectly in place all season long. If you want your holiday door display to shine bright at night too, consider wrapping mini lights around your greenery or choosing prelit wreaths and garland when selecting your holiday decor. Greenery isn't quite your style? Garland lights offer an eye catching alternative for outlining your door!

Garland Wrapped Bench

Benches, swings and rocking chairs are inviting additions to thousands of porches, so why not show our favorite front row seats some holiday love too? Wrap porch seating in lit or unlit garland to finish off a festive porch display. You can add your own special touches like bows, bags, lanterns and maybe even a jolly sitting santa to greet your guests as they arrive. Benches and swings can also be draped or wrapped with string lights to create extra illumination near the door!

Lighted Branches Door Decorations

Create a showtstopping focal point at your front door with lighted branches and holiday decorations in your signature style. To learn how we created this one of a kind DIY porch decoration, take a look at our favorite Christmas Door Decorating Ideas!

Christmas Wreaths

Holiday greenery is a Christmas classic and can carry any theme well. A simple green wreath adorned with a red bow stands out against any door color and design while maintaining a traditional Christmas feel. If you favor the timeless look of greenery but want to add a bit of your own vibrant personality to your front space, incorporating themed accents, such as ribbon, ornaments, flowers, or even your prized owl figurines or beach shell collection, can turn basic holiday greenery into a rustic, modern, vintage, or one of a kind design!

Ideas for Flanking Your Porch

• Place lighted motifs like angels, snowmen, reindeer or elves on each side of your door.
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• Create festive topiaries with walkway Christmas trees placed in pots on each side of your door.
• Grapevine balls wrapped with lights or Christmas light balls placed in matching urns.
• Clusters of candle lanterns and poinsettias

Tip: If your home doesn't have a porch leading up to the front door, you can still flank each side of your walkway! Try placing lighted walkway trees or starburst light stakes on each side of your entry or front stoop to create the same symmetric effect. You can even continue using the decor of your choice down the entire walkway, creating a lighted path for guests leading up to your cheerful door decor!

When the door is done, it's time to head to the porch and stair railings! Continue your Christmas porch decorations by wrapping mini lights around railings or adding a delicate garland or icicle light swag. You could even secure a few lighted snowflakes to stairs and the outside of your railing resulting in a whimsical, wintry mix of Christmas cheer! Depending on which Christmas decorations you choose to use, the application may be different. We've provided a few helpful hints below to get you started on installing your preferred porch railing decorations.

Icicle Lights can be hung straight across railings or secured in a sweeping swag pattern if preferred. Zip ties in colors to match your railing work best for temporarily securing icicle lights, just be sure you leave a small amount of give so as not to pinch your wiring! For long term installation or the ability to hang alternative light types through the year, consider using screw in hooks or clips to hang your lights.

Garland Lights are made up of multiple strands of mini lights tightly woven together. Garland lights can easily wrap around railings to produce a stunning display, or you can create a swag by using zip ties or hooks to secure the lights every few feet.

Garland lights also look incredible when used to outline the front door in place of greenery. You can either use a greenery holder or a few nails or hooks to keep the lights in place.

Lit or Unlit Garland is most often wrapped around railings, but can also be displayed in a graceful swag. One popular idea for garland swags is to place a festive bow at the point where the garland is secured to the railing. Many bows feature sturdy wiring to hold them in place, which can be used to secure your garland to the railing as well.

Mini String Lights are one of the most popular choices for porch lighting due to their incredible versatility. Choose colors that match your theme and wrap railings quickly to produce a festive glow across your entire front porch. You're probably aware that mini lights come in a large variety of colors, but did you know there are different styles avaialble as well? If you want to try something different this year, take a look at a few of these alternative mini light shapes.

Snowflake Decorations whether lit or unlit, can be secured with sturdy wiring, zip ties, or even decorative ribbons depending on their design. Hang snowflakes alone or in addition to mini light wraps.

Step into a Winter Wonderland every time you arrive home with a few of our other favorite Christmas porch decoration ideas using lighted snowflakes and visit our post on decorating with Christmas snowflakes for even more inspiration!

• Create a wintry mix with snowflakes in different sizes and styles hanging across the porch or above the front entry way
• Hang snowflakes on or above the front door

Christmas Wreaths for those who can't get enough holiday greenery! Hanging wreaths across porch railings with festive ribbon is a less common Christmas porch decoration, but one that is undeniably inviting and equally charming! Wreaths are a classic Christmas decoration and a great choice when you are wanting a festive holiday home that looks equally cheerful both day and night! Choose prelit wreaths if outlets are easily accessible or opt for unlit options and shine a spotlight on them to illuminate the greenery when night falls.

Your front door is the focal point of your Christmas porch decorations, so think of your railings and columns as the frame, showcasing your design! The best method for decorating columns is to wrap them with lighting or greenery that either matches or complements your railing design. If you wrapped your railings in mini lights or used icicle lights you will want to also wrap your columns in lighting that is the same or similar. Icicle lights aren't typically used for wrapping, however you can find mini light strings in identical bulb types and colors to match your icicle lights.

If you chose greenery for your railings, wrap columns in the same style greenery. You can even secure a matching bow to the top or middle of each column to tie it all together! To make wrapping columns even easier and convenient, column or trunk wraps are available in several lighting and color styles to match your mini lights or icicle lights. Column wraps are especially helpful for homeowners with a larger porch and several columns to be decorated as they can be installed quickly and produce uniform results.

Unlit Folding Star Decorations - Hang unlit Christmas stars along the porch to create a display that looks beautiful in the day and shines bright with spotlights at night! These stars arrive with the fabric already attached to the frame. Just fold it open in one easy step, zip the fabric closed, and your star decoration is ready to hang. When you're done, just fold these stars closed and pack them away easily in storage until next year.

Christmas Light Balls - you might have seen these glowing orbs hanging around the neighbors trees at night and wondered what they are and what magic keeps them floating there. Christmas light balls can be hung from tree branches in the yard or secured to hooks and nails across the porch to create the illusion of a floating constellation. Installing starlight spheres isn't magic, it's actually very easy, but the result is certainly enchanting!

Moravian Stars have always been a symbol of Christmas spirit, however they are becoming increasingly popular as year round decorations as well! Choose starlight spheres in one or a few colors to complement your holiday theme and hang one between each column or several clustered across the ceiling to complete your Christmas porch decorations with lighted accents inspired by the night sky.