Today I’m sharing a summer front door basket since this weekend officially kicks off summer for me. There’s just something about greenery on our front door, that I really love no matter what season we’re celebrating.
Summer Front Door Basket
The color of our front door and surrounding trim is Iron Ore by Sherwin Williams. It’s one of the few shades of paint that I like with our red brick. It’s also an easy color to work with when coordinating seasonal door decor. Every wreath and decorated basket looks so pretty with this color as a backdrop.
My approach to decorating the summer door basket is the same as with our outdoor planter with the thriller, filler, spiller method. I admit the blue flowers are not as much of a thriller, but maybe the blue ribbon will make up for that.
For a basket similar to mine click here.
This is what I call a no fail way of decorating the front door. Get a few faux ferns and other greenery picks, then stuff them in a basket. There’s no need to complicate it.
By the way the best picks for this type of door basket have long stems. Bending the wire stems before inserting them in the basket helps to keep the picks in place.
I love how the narrow blue and white ribbon compliments the texture of the rustic willow basket. Try this zig-zag criss cross pattern just for fun.
Instead of hot gluing, tie the ribbon in place on the back, that way you can easily remove it for future use.
Front Yard Update
In addition to the door basket I’m sharing a glimpse of one section of the front yard again. As I mentioned in an earlier post we lost more than half of our established landscape last winter, but just look it out now. The mister and I planted flowers, shrubs and covered the soil with mulch last weekend between rain showers. It’s all about team work baby!
I can’t wait for the everything to start growing now. It’s such a huge difference not having the four foot hedge anymore, but I think I’m going to like these bushes even better. The variegated green and yellow leaves are really pretty.
To see a horrible before photo of the flower bed, click on Updating A Porch Planter For Spring. You’ll also see how fast this hydrangea is growing. It’s so exciting to have blooming colors on the porch!
Be sure to follow Thistle Key Lane on Pinterest, where the boards are up to date with my favorite seasonal inspiration!
Thank you for stopping by to see what I’m up to this weekend and for checking out my summer front door basket.
Cheers!
©2021 Summer Front Door Basket post first appeared on Thistle Key Lane.
First, your door color is fantastic and I love how your address is on the side. I’ve not seen that before. Second, your porch looks amazing and I adore the basket with the ribbon. We are featuring it over on Farmhouse Friday! Woo hoo! Thanks for linking up. Hope you can link up again this week!
That is great news Cindy, thanks for the feature! A couple of years ago we had a rash of wrong deliveries so I added house numbers to the front door area then painted them the same color. It worked!
Great idea!
Wow, Michelle, your landscape bed by the door looks really good. That was a lot of work pulling all those plants (and repairing the sprinkler system). And, you have a bath remodel going on too? Ugh, that gives me PTSD from when we did ours in 2017. It took 11 weeks total. (and then we sold the house!).
Love the container and hanging basket too. Really nice against that Ore on the door and Graphite of the pot. You are summer ready!
Thank you Rita! The actual landscape curves around the front of the house too, so yes it was triple the work you see in the photo. Glad to be finished!
Love a basket on the front door!! I have the same greenery and a basket that is kinda flat so I could totally do this for my front door! Thanks Michelle! Pinned!
That makes me so happy to hear you say that. Hope it turns out just like you want it to! Hugs!
Ooh, I just love a basket on the front door, so cute! And the ferns and simple faux greenery picks are perfect for summertime.
Thank you so much Allison! This little basket was one of my best purchases a few years ago and it’s so easy to change it up.
I love this idea for your front door. I did something similar with a basket on my front door this year. I used red geraniums in mine and just added some flags for Memorial Day. I love the little addition of the ribbon, it makes yours so unique!
I love your idea of red geraniums Chloe. My mom had them every summer and I need to get some too!