Sometimes when you are blogging, you tend to go a little overboard in decorating. Fall front porch ideas get a little over the top and the next thing you know you're building a full size replica of Lizzie Borden's parlor on your front porch for Halloween. It's just a hazard of the job.
So in the middle of shopping for a Lizzie period dress, I came to the realization that I just wanted to do a typical non-blogging-Pam front porch. Nothing too over the top and nothing that will make cars passing on the street stop and gawk.
Lizzie with a hatchet would have surely made a few cars stop. Some with lights and sirens on them.
So this is my sweet and simple, laid-back fall porch.
Other than the bowl of apples, damn you Gala apples, the rest of the stuff will sit on my porch until after Thanksgiving.
This humongo pumpkin is my favorite thing on the porch. It has got to be close to 100 pounds.
Normally it would be one of those instance where I would want to try to see how it looks on each side of the door and then move it an inch this way and then an inch that way.
But after my husband and I managed to somehow actually get it up onto the porch and I asked my husband to scooch it over an inch or two and I got the look (i.e. no one is going to get a hernia over this stupid pumpkin), it just stayed where we dropped it.
Yep, looks good there!
Lizzie and her parents will have to wait until next year for their debut.
Other fall front porches ideas you may like:
Cute Fall Decorations For Outside
susie @ persimmon moon cottage
Your porch looks really great. Very tastefully done. The giant pumpkin is the perfect touch.
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It's perfect. Not too much....just enough.
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Sharing Shadymont
Great porch! Love the items you gathered for the season!
Tricia
Your porch looks great! The humongous pumpkin is my favorite part too. Maybe you should carve it when Halloween gets closer...the stem could be a nose. Boy, wouldn't that be a job?!
Kim K.
I'm completely smitten with your large-in-charge pumpkin. She's a beaut. A lovely fall front porch. The blanket is the perfect touch.
Judy Bigg
Wow, what a pumpkin, love the bright orange color sitting on your beautiful porch and the bench is great too.
Cindy Ritchie
Pretty and so welcoming! What a huge pumpkin!
LizlovesVintage
It does look great there and big. You know the saying, " The bigger the better!" You did a great job and not to over the top. So, what's the decor plan for Thanksgiving? Sorry I haven't been commenting lately. School is very challenging this year. Tired.. tired... and tired.
Have a great Wednesday!
xxx Liz
Coastal Cottage Dreams
Lovely porch and that is some big pumpkin there, love it!
Olive Cooper
Uh Pam, your pumpkin is obese. Just thought you should be told. The porch is utterly charming. Please fly down and do something with mine. It is bare. xo, olive
Shabby chic Sandy
The big pumpkin looks great right where it is, as does everything else!
Happier Than a Pig in Mud
I noticed the huge pumpkin right away! And yep, looks like the perfect spot to me too:@)
Jayne
Looks great, that giant pumpkin is the best!
♥ Sonny ♥
very fallish and well done.. creativity with a LightHand is all the better, to me.
ℳartina @ Northern Nesting
Pam your front porch looks fabulous!!
Sweet Posy Dreams
It looks great. The apples wouldn't last half an hour on my porch if I left them there. The squirrels would take them, or at least gnaw them.