There are so many reasons to decorate your door with inviting and themed Christmas decorations during the winter season.
Your front door is the entry point at which company will enter your home. It completely sets the stage and scene for your home, and creates a sense of warmth and anticipation for the Christmas spirit that will be experienced within your home.
With just a little inspiration (and of course some carefully chosen Christmas decorations) you can transform your home’s entryway into a stunning scene that will both invite and awe.
Here are 5 Christmas door decoration ideas for you to try out next season, some of which can be used together.
- Create the Perfect Front Door Christmas Wreath
If there’s one Christmas decoration that’s just naturally perfect for the front door, it has to be the wreath.
Christmas wreaths are available in a wide range of styles and sizes. Most standard doors are 36" in diameter, so a good rule of thumb for that door size is to choose a 30" wreath.
The Christmas wreath itself is just the blank canvas, though, and you can accessorize a wreath with lights, ornaments, Christmas ribbon, picks, sprays, and more.
One tip here is to use shatterproof ornaments, especially if this wreath will be hung outside your front door. That way the elements, wind, or even just errantly closing the door a little too hard won’t break anything.
- Add Christmas Garlands and Lights
While something as simple as a Christmas wreath can complete your front door, the doorframe is another blank canvas for you to accessorize.
Some homeowners trim the exterior of their front door frames with lights (C9 Christmas lights look wonderful here) but a better, and more holistic approach, is to decorate with a Christmas garland, then add cluster lights (or start with a prelit garland).
Adding a garland around the doorframe that matches the wreath will create a sense of balance and harmony, and the garland can furthermore be embellished with lights, ribbon, ornaments, picks and sprays, just like the wreath.
Tie it all together by choosing a unified color scheme and adding some of the same ribbon and ornaments from the wreath into your garland for a more cohesive effect.
- Don’t Forget the Christmas Resin, Statues and Signs
While you might like the way your entryway looks with just a Christmas wreath, garland, lights and some supporting accents, you can round out the whole picture with some Christmas resin, statutes or yard signs.
Place these on the stoop or next to your door to fill the space and create a welcoming air. Another option, if you have the space by your front door, is to choose a Christmas inflatable that’s compatible with your other decorations and place it by the door.
Christmas inflatables will add light as well as color to a space and can serve as a focal point to draw attention to your front door or the yard immediately outside the entryway.
- Let Natural Greenery Reign
Another alternative to the overall scene set here is to decorate your home’s front door with natural greenery and skip the ornaments, ribbon, and lights.
Explore our natural greenery collection which contains a wealth of garlands, wreaths and other greenery patterned after lifelike Norfolk Pine, cedar, cypress and more.
These stellar examples of natural greenery are nearly impossible to tell apart from the real thing, even from a few feet away, and decorating with them, but without adding lights or ornaments, creates an understated yet elegant old world air.
Or, you could decorate these natural garlands and wreaths with ribbon to add a little extra color and movement. When doing so, though, keep in mind that less is more. You only want a touch, you don’t want to overshadow the sophisticated yet simple allure of the natural greenery itself.
- Skip the Christmas Wreath and Add a Sign
Something as simple as a sign hung on your front door can create a warm and inviting impression before visitors, and with a Christmas sign you can skip the wreath.
You can hang a sign on its own, or add some greenery around the door, or mix and match a sign with some statues, resin, or other yard decor strategically placed around the home’s entryway, next to the door or on the porch, to produce a welcoming impression.
Pro Tip: Shop By Christmas Collection
Need a little inspiration or some help picking out the Christmas decorations you want to use to accent your wreath and other greenery?
Shop by Christmas collection and choose ornaments, ribbon, picks and other supporting accents from the same collection. They’re specially chosen for compatibility and will make decorating easy!
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