A Christmas Porch with Vintage Junk Style
Looking for ways to decorate with your vintage junk finds? Here are Vintage decorating ideas for your Christmas porch that will add old fashioned style to your holiday outdoor decor.
The snow’s a-blowin’ and the Christmas vibes have arrived! It’s amazing how a fresh snowfall can beautifully decorate all of nature. I got all the finishing touches on our porch decor done just in time. Of course we didn’t just get a pretty sprinkling of snow; we got a dumping! But it did make for some beautiful pictures. Hopefully this “A Christmas Porch with Vintage Junk Style” will send plenty of decorating ideas your way!
A Christmas Porch with Vintage Junk Style
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Decorate with Thrifted Scarves
Thrifted scarves are my outdoor decorating secret sauce. Grab a stack from your local thrift store at the beginning of the season for a couple bucks each. Knot them on a wreath, around a porch chair, tie them to a sled or a shovel…wherever and however! I usually grab the classic Christmas color plaids because they really pop in the white snow.
I’ve lost count how many plaid scarves I used outside this year!
Garden Clippings for Inexpensive Decorating
Clippings from your yard and garden are the easiest and most inexpensive outdoor winter accents. Dried hydrangeas, seedpods, dogwood branches, pinecones, and even split logs can be wonderful fillers for vintage containers. I add them to my spruce tip containers along with store bought plastic snowflakes and faux berries.
Decorate with Vintage Junk Finds
If you’ve got a covered porch, vintage junk finds are perfect as old fashioned Christmas decorations. Old sleds, skis and ski poles can easily be leaned up against the house. Runner sleds can be laid on a table as a foundation for other accessories. Galvanized buckets, watering cans and containers look cute overflowing with clipped evergreens or branches.
Add a Cupboard to Your Porch for Vintage Style
One of the best decisions I made this year was putting this aqua painted cupboard on the porch instead of selling it. It gives me a whole new canvas to decorate outside and it grounds the porch with it’s large size. For Christmas, I filled it with enamelware with red, green, and black accents and old green pop bottles. Then I stuffed it with greenery scraps and pinecones. Such a fun backdrop to this little winter seating area.
Isn’t it fun to decorate outside? It can be a whole other canvas to enjoy your vintage finds. Add some greenery, pinecones and a few thrifted scarves and blankets and you’re all set! A dusting of snow is the final touch:)
For more Christmas Ideas and Inspiration, see HERE for a roundup of ideas!
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Hi Lora ! Your porch is amazing. I love how it looks with the snow and the scarf on the snow covered wreath is perfect. There are so many fantastic vintage items on your porch. It makes me want to shop your porch!
Well, there’s an idea, Anna! When I’m ready to clear out, I’ll remember that;)
Love it all especially the scarves
Thanks, Gail!
That snow came at a perfect time, love the ideas for the scarves. Your front porch is so cute. I’ve just started and you gave me some great ideas, thanks and Merry Christmas.
Glad you enjoyed it, Marlene!
You have the best ideas ! I don’t have a porch, but I still see a couple of ways I could use plaid scarves, on a wreath, and maybe on a railing. WOW. So cute !
Glad you got some ideas, Sarah!
Great ideas! I love JUNK and using it for Christmas is my thing! Thanks for sharing 🌲
Yes, Junky Christmas is the best!
Oh my goodness! Absolutely magical. Happy holidays to you.
I appreciate that, Renae; thanks!
Laura: I’m loving your junk porch. More like lots of vintage goodness front porch. I too am an old MN girl now living in NE. I love your aesthetic and so enjoy your blog. I would like to invite you to come on over to my side!!!
Thanks so much, Shelley! Just visited your blog and I’m so jealous you went to Trans Siberian; have always wanted to see them. Hope Christmas decorating is going well; it is tiring!
Love the vintage goodies! Those blue skates are so pretty! I have some vintage black and whites ones but haven’t seen that color. I also have one of the plaid lunchboxes in a Christmas display in my kitchen. I haven’t had much luck finding thrifted plaid scarves, but I had the idea of cutting up fleece throw blankets into strips with fringe on the ends to make scarves. No sewing is needed since fleece doesn’t ravel! I found a couple of different plaid ones at the Dollar Store and Aldi for $5-6! Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful, thrifty, resourceful idea, Vicki! Thanks for sharing:)
SO PRETTY!!!! Your whole yard looks like a magical snowglobe!! I LOVE that blue skate…what a stunning photo…it could be in a magazine! Such fun ideas Lora…all your scarves are genius!
My mom scored those skated at a church sale for me years ago and they’re my favorite:) Thanks always for your positive, fun comments, Rachel. Appreciate each and every one:)
LOVE LOVE all your vintage porch goodies, Lora. I could spend hours, even in the freezing cold, enjoying each item and vignette. What a fun idea with all the scarves!! Have a wonderful week!
Aw, thanks, friend. I always enjoying seeing your vintage goodies, too!
Love the blue accents!
Thanks! Mom scored them for me years ago:)
Love the blue cabinet on the porch, thank you for the great tips. I can see I need to add more greenery to my porch area.
Yes, greens go a long way in the beauty dept!
Your porch decorated with vintage junk for Christmas warms my heart! Our porch is decorated in a similar manner although on a smaller scale. It was fun to pull things out of storage in the garage when a new idea hit me. My favorite things to use are a toboggan trimmed in red, a pair of my old ice skates, my husband’s very old hockey skates along with a small pair of children’s skates, old mittens, a small red child’s sled, and red skis with green accents throughout the display like a green shutter with a pine tree cutout (similar to what you found). I love decorating this way because it is different from what our neighbors do and it is interesting to those passing by. I will enjoy looking through all of the posts you pulled together. Thanks for the inspiration!
Your collection sounds amazing, Pat! Sounds absolutely adorable:) I’m sure your neighbors love to see your festive display!
Love your blue cupboard and the green enamel pot. You always find vintage things I love!
Yes, I am a vintage addict. Love to spread the disease:)