Winter Door Decor Ideas
The entrance is the first impression guests have of your home. It is an opportunity to make it feel welcoming! It’s nice for YOU to be greeted with a pretty entrance when you arrive home too.
image via Etsy
I love the sentiment of this welcome mat from Etsy (friends and family are ALWAYS welcome, people with clipboards and pamphlets tend to have us hiding out of sight pretending we aren’t home).
As much as I love this, I lean toward more classic entrance decor.
I don’t know about you, but I always feel weird leaving a Christmas wreath on the front door with Valentines Day approaching. And with the warm weather we had earlier this month, our evergreen wreath is looking a little ever-brown!
It is, sadly, MUCH too early to switch over to spring door decor, since winter likes to hang around here for way more than its allotted calendar slot.
Some years, I am embarrassed to admit, I have ignored the whole thing and left Christmas up well past its expiration date…one year I even had birds nesting in my garland and had to wait for spring for them to fledge before I could take everything down!
My go to solution (when I’m on top of things) is to switch from my traditional red/gold/plaid Christmas colors to wintery silvers and whites with evergreens.
Last year I upcycled a faux wreath with white and silver ribbon and snowflake ornaments and plopped it on the front door.
This year, I filled a white conical basket I had with leftover evergreens still piled in my garage and added a bow comprised of three ribbons; wide white with snowflakes, wide silver (with gold on the reverse), and narrower sheer white and silver plaid.
Super quick and easy. The hardest past was attaching it to my storm door and getting it to hang straight. The basket is skinny and the whole thing is top-heavy, so unless I get the hanger in exactly the right place it lists sideways like a drunken sailor?!.
Winter Planters
I also zhushed up the urns that are filled with evergreens flanking the steps. The ivy in them from this summer is still hanging on too because it hasn’t gotten too far below freezing here. Yet.
I took out the red berries and stuck in some white twiggy branches and the giant pinecones I never got around to adding earlier.
Our weird weather with wildly variable temperatures means some of the greens are already drying out and turning brown, so I’ll need to replace a few pretty soon.
I love the graceful arching drippy nature of the pine and cedar branches, but they seem to be the worst culprits for turning brown.
But that’s it - voila! I’m good for a little while.
Door decor is a fun and easy way to celebrate the season, and evergreens cut from the yard, or procured from the nursery are a natural for winter decor. Faux evergreens are great too and bonus, they won’t turn brown and crispy like the real ones eventually do!
Some ideas for winter door arrangement containers
Basket (a flat back side is helpful)
Metal wall pocket or bin
Vintage wall mailbox
A pair of ice skates
A winter boot
No container? No problem! Just gather a bundle of mixed evergreens together and hang them in a swag from the stems.
Add ribbons and a bow for the finishing touch. Making your own gorgeous bows is easy (tutorial HERE).
Other winter entrance embellishment ideas that are great post holiday
Vintage sleds
lanterns
Vintage skis or ski poles
Vintage Snowshoes
woodland creatures
birch branches or twigs
giant pine cones
winter birds (preferably faux!)
What do YOU do for winter door decor?
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