What are Some Ideas for Decorating the Front Door Area of My Home?
Your front door area welcomes others to your home and helps set the tone of your home. Whether you choose a traditional, contemporary, country or other look, decorating the front door area should reflect your tastes as well as meet your needs. Give some thought to your front door itself as well as your flowers and plants, railings, porch light, address sign, mail box and any other accessories you need or would like to add. If you want a country theme, consider doing something interesting such as using an antique milk can as your mailbox. Your address sign could have a country look in painted wood, but to avoid too much detail or too many different colors that can look tacky, limit the amount of motifs and colors you use. A cow painted on your address sign may look cute, but that plus farm animal wind chimes and a farm animal welcome mat may just be too busy and too much animal overload to look stylish. When decorating the front door area, keep the color scheme to neutrals plus one basi