Everybody loves to decorate their houses with Christmas decorations especially when it comes to the Christmas festivals. Porch lights are one of the areas that get ignored, yet they have great potential.
These little beacons outside your home will help create Christmas cheer even before anyone steps into the house. The entire front of the house turns from drab to simply enchanting, more so with the holiday spirit around.
If you are like me and can’t help but start making the decorations months in advance, you’re probably already thinking of how to make your home as festive as possible.
The porch lights are certainly an important outdoor feature in such a décor portfolio.
Whether you’re going all out building up a sophisticated winter wonderland or going all rainbow bright and cheery, the complements of the right touches will improve your entire outdoor scenery.
While we’re here to provide you with the basic information, I’ll show you just a few examples of where it is possible to go lion and how lighting is the holiday decoration that inspires best in all ways: creativity!
But why do we even put emphasis on porch lights? So, what is the reason porch lights should be prioritised on when it comes to Christmas decorating? No rocket science needed here.
Let’s just say, in the general sense, the porch lights will be among the obvious features that visitors (not leaving out the fact that neighbors wonder too!)will see.
They also guide the way to the house lighting the way to walkways and the mood that is to be set within the house. If properly dressed up, your porch lights have the potential to be unique and differentiate your house from the houses in the entire neighbourhood.
Unless it’s like any other household chore, you should get it over and done with! Feel like getting involved to take it easy? Make sure that your front porch lights stay in shape.
Try your best to have them looking good as they will be the finishing accent to your home always. The best part is – you will not need to spend so much.
Effective yet simple ways will help to create the most important parts in your decor. Your porch lights can also be extra characters during the holidays with the help of new Christmas decorations such as wreaths, ribbons, or even lanterns.
Direction in Selecting Decor for Porch Lights
Probably the most important step when deciding on an exterior decoration, and more specifically with regard to the area around the porch lights, is staying calm.
You wish to have your decoration too tempting incorporating lights but not as frustrating as upset your guests’ attention. Look at the link between the porch lights and the rest of the outdoor display.
Are there additional decorative items you have for the holidays such as wreaths, garlands, or an outdoor Christmas mat that you would wish to match with?
Porch lights require embellishing and one of the easiest practices to achieve this is to add some ribbons, ragged strings, or even mini wreaths that can fit around the yard light’s head.
Ensure whatever you buy fits into the overall look and feeling of your home’s outside structure. If you have larger porch lights, you might want to consider oversized decorations to match the scale.
Some would prefer to be orthodox during the holiday season, and for these people, the aid of loved ones in wrapping every part of the house with lights or hanging mini wreaths will appear stunning.
Just the view of the green garland garnished with little beads or lights already imbues the members of the house, and their visitors especially into the porch, a ready to celebrate mood. This is the best way to welcome people and lift the ambience for the seasons.
Color Composition and Design Unity
When it comes to your palette, the world is your oyster. Sprinkle a bit of color in for some fun if you feel the need. Your porch lights might be incorporated into the overall look or emphasized as accent pieces.
There is a particular trend in interior decor which seems to be gaining traction – use of décor in jewel tones such as royal blues, deep purples and greens.
Adds quite a drama to the décor. For instance, lanterns in these tones will add a nice fairytale essence to the porch designing which is ideal for the Christmas season.
If on the other hand, you are the kind of person who likes some brightness and some colour, go all out with neons, hot pinks, red, reds and even chrome finishes.They love these.
These may make your porch lights look cheerful and spirited which will surely attract attention to passersby.
How to Decorate with Lanterns
Lanterns are one of the types of outdoor decorations that have always excited me, and they are very effective around the porch lights.
Lanterns can be arranged around the main lights or even suspended on hooks in order to create dimension. They are an easy addition, but it makes your porch cozy, inviting, especially with the lights on, at night.
If you would like to be a bit cheeky, you could choose to fill the lanterns with ornaments, fairy lights or, faux snow. They will even emit a soft light and enhance that beautiful Christmas feeling.
Use with your porch lights for an additional layering of lighting, not only is it pretty but useful too. If you are more into farmhouse styles, you can use tarnished lanterns or for that matter make some with the spare paint you have for the holidays.
Some things associated with the outdoors like pinecones or evergreen branches can complete that look of a winter wooden cabin, right at the doorstep.
Stay Focused in a Smart Way
This article on porch decorating feels so good with each inch of decorative urge, there must be a dress code and safety guidelines when designing the room.
As much as there are decorations it is important to decorate around the porch lights with heat resistant materials or safe to the bulbs. Styles have embraced LED lighting since it consumes less energy as compared to the traditional bulbs and is at the same time cool.
And another, blocking too much of the light is not right even if a sun hat and visor were needed. It is quite obvious that the porch lights serve a purpose and that is not only their decoration.
They have to light up your doorway for safe entry. Hence ensure that your ornaments do not obstruct the gleam but rather uplift it.
Another important recommendation, if your area is very windy or rainy during the winter any decorations should be well anchored.
There is no way you would want all the efforts of decorating a holiday porch go to waste when the wind comes knocking.
Last But Not The Least, Make It Look Complete and Nice
The best part of the holiday season is decorating your porch lights for Christmas as this can fit in with almost any other outdoor winter season decor ideas you have.
Even you fill oversized wreaths, or make your front yard a reindeer yard, or put a Christmas tree on the porch, the lights will finish off all. Giving your new space a sense of wholeness also requires you to keep in mind the color scheme.
Do you want it to be simple with just white and green colors incorporating classiness? Or are bold patterns in red and gold tempered with lustrous tones? Whichever style you choose, your porch lights fulfill the function of finishing the whole adding the ‘waah’ effect at the very end.
You can also take the bow and add ribbon or decorations around the light fixture and the result will be a perfect harmony of elements that are pleasant and friendly.
Summary
Christmas is all about putting up decorations and making the house seem so cozy and welcoming, in the spirit of the season as you add to your home décor.
The limitations of going overboard may often lead some people to attention on the big items to be used in decoration such as the tree or the garland but remember that even the smaller details like the lights on the porch can have quite a significant effect.
Your porch lights can be done from just a simple bright wreath and a ribbon to a more detailed lantern and color implementations making sure they are doing a great job in their function.
Moreover, they are the most hassle-free method of making your home sparkle a bit more. So you have some ideas and tips, so let’s move to detailing your yard space. It is time to make yourself comfortable with a hot cocoa, put on some festive music and let your imagination take charge.
And of course, Christmas porch light decorations are not only for your neighbor’s envy (although a nice touch), but also for yourself, your family, and every person who will walk through the guest regain your list of merits.
Julie is a Staff Writer at momooze.com. She has been working in publishing houses before joining the editorial team at momooze. Julie's love and passion are topics around beauty, lifestyle, hair and nails.
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