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How To Decorate Your Porch For Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is coming soon. There are many ways that you can decorate your front porch for the holiday. Be creative in what you use for decorations and the people around you will love your display. If you use candles always remember to keep an eye on them while they are burning. Also, make sure you put the candles out before going to sleep.

Whether throwing a Valentine party, having visitors, or just wanting to spread the love to friends and neighbors, decorating a front porch with a Valentine’s Day theme is a wonderful way to say “Welcome.”
How to decorate a front porch for Valentine’s Day:

Front door

Hang a romantic wreath that sends the message, “Love is in the air.” Begin with a grapevine, or straw wreath, obtained at any hobby or craft shop. Decorate with lace, ribbon embossed with tiny cupids or flowers and hang two hearts from thin ribbon in the center. Another idea is to cover the wreath with red ribbon and glue valentine heart candies with cute sayings all over it. Round off the front door decoration with a bright red welcome mat on the floor below.

Outdoor furniture

Many porches have chairs and an occasional table arranged in the center. If this is the case, place red or pink throw pillows on the chairs, a romantic print tablecloth embossed with hearts or roses on the table and top off with a bouquet of roses in a vase. In cooler climates, use artificial flowers.

Other front porch decorating ideas

A true Valentine’s Day lover might want to string tiny white lights across the railings of the porch for a romantic touch after dusk.

Line the walk way with self-made luminaries. Use white paper lunch bags, trace hearts or cupids and cut out. Fill with two inches of sand or kitty litter and insert a long-burning votive candle. Check retail outlets and dollar stores for pre-made luminary bags.

Consider standing a Valentine tree in a corner of the porch. Either use a small white Christmas tree or a dried tree branch with full limbs standing in a bucket of sand. Decorate with tiny white lights, lace, ribbon, red ornaments, hearts, flowers, tiny plastic cupids, old-fashioned Victorian Valentine cards or anything else that conjures up romance, love and fun.

If the backdrop of the porch is a picture window, place a big shiny red heart in each window pane.

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to liven up the atmosphere by decorating the front porch. It’s a long stretch between the celebratory atmosphere of Christmas and the lively Easter season. Instead of succumbing to the doldrums, often referred to as “the winter blues,” that sometimes occur in the post-holiday season, decorate your front porch with a message of love to all who pass by or drop in, uplifting your own spirit in the process.