Decorative Front Door Wreaths

Decorative front door wreaths add an enchanting touch of elegance and whimsy to the entrance of your home. Whether you hang wreaths on your front door to celebrate holidays or the change of seasons, decorative front door wreaths give your home curb appeal and provide a truly warm welcome to visitors.

There are countless variations of charming handcrafted wreath styles available at gift shops and online. Whether you choose a simple unadorned grapevine wreath or a lushly extravagant wreath brimful of greenery, caspia, and wheat accented with peacock feathers, decorative front door wreaths make a dramatic statement about your sense of style.

Choosing Decorative Front Door Wreaths

There are a few considerations to keep in mind when choosing your front door wreath.

Color

Your front door sets the tone for a chic interior. The front door of your home is often painted the same color as shutters and decorative gable trim and may echo other color choices used throughout the interior of your home. Choose your front door wreath to enhance the color of your front door and choose wreath colors which either contrast or complement its color. While a bright boldly colored front door adorned with a fanciful wreath makes a powerful impact on your home's appearance, so too does the understated elegance of a monochromatic neutral theme like a cream door with natural wheat, brown nuts, and a dash of colorful berries.

Wreath Size Matters

Generally, front doors are about 36 inches wide so the perfect choice for this size door would be a wreath 22 inches to 24 inches in diameter.

Front Door Wreath Materials

Unless you have an outer storm windowed or screened door, enclosed front porch, or covered entryway, your wreath will be exposed throughout the year to direct sunlight, humidity, wind, rain, and snow. If your front door is not exposed to the elements then dried, preserved, and silk wreaths all perform very nicely and can last quite a while.

If your front door is out in the open, there are a variety of dried and preserved wreaths designed for outdoor use, but be aware that some preservatives used in dried wreath components will leak when exposed to direct sunlight. In some cases the preservative may simply be washed off the door while others have been known to permanently stain and discolor any surface with which it comes into contact. Test your preserved or dried wreath on a stand or wooden box outside for a couple of days before hanging on an expensive wood door. Also know that all front door wreaths will eventually fade in direct sunlight.

How long you would like your wreath to last is a key consideration when choosing wreath materials. If your budget allows you to regularly freshen up your front door with new wreaths every month or so, you have the flexibility to use wreaths made with fresh boughs, other fresh plant materials, and seasonal flowers. Your wreaths cannot be expected to last more than a few days or perhaps weeks with a regular misting of water, but fresh wreaths are the ultimate luxurious accent for the entrance to your home.

For many of us, four front door wreaths per year, one to greet each new season, plus one or two extra for holidays, adds more than enough grandeur to our entrance and gives our home pizzazz all year long, without breaking the bank. If these seasonal and holiday wreaths can be used for a couple of years or more, all the better.

Spring Wreath Ideas

Silk

Welcome spring with a bold yellow wreath made with silk forsythia. This one-flower style of wreath in bright yellow works with many front door colors including cream, navy blue, green, and looks particularly outstanding on a shiny black door with brass hardware.

Easter Theme

Vibrantly colored and warmly inviting, an Easter themed front door wreath will bring a smile to everyone's face, and lends an enchanting sense of whimsy to the entrance of your home. Whether you have children or not, this amazing and amusing wreath brings out the kid in anyone. Made with plastic Easter eggs and tied with a paper bow, this wreath could inspire the Easter Bunny himself to stop in for a chocolate treat!

Summer Wreath Ideas

Fresh, Silk, or Dried and Preserved

Fresh summertime wreaths and your front door go together naturally. To celebrate the arrival of this most wonderfully warm and fun season, consider asking your florist to create a sumptuous natural wreath of fragrant, relatively long-lasting flowers and plant materials. This is a wonderful wreath to welcome guests for summer parties. Keep your floral wreath fresh with regular misting and enjoy it while it lasts.

Life-like silk wreaths fill the bill for summer as well and one will last for several years if only used for the summer.

Natural botanicals look amazing in jewel tones that complement several front door colors. Look for exciting combinations of salal leaves, green caspia, purple globe, orange safflower blooms, red yarrow, lavender larkspur, dark pink statice and preserved willow leaves.

Seashells

Another dramatic wreath style for summer incorporates seashells into the designs for a nautical and decidedly 'summer home by the beach' flavor. Wreaths made of seashells are intricately beautiful and interesting and last for years.

Fall Wreath Ideas

Fall colors are the most popular inspiration for front door wreaths. Golds, oranges, yellows, reds, browns, and other warm colors are featured in fall front door wreaths. If you are feeling creative this fall, consider making your own fall foliage front door wreath.

Simply collect fall leaves and using floral wire attach them in bunches to a wire wreath frame, overlapping as you go around the frame. Add some berries and twigs and voila, you have created a natural work of art! Spray the finished wreath with high gloss varnish, dry, and hang on your door.

Winter Wreath Ideas

Winter offers a wide spectrum of material choices for wreaths. Many people will begin the cold weather season with a Christmas wreath made with holly, berries, bells, candy, and evergreen boughs then once the evergreen boughs have lost their luster, finish the winter season with a dried or preserved wreath made with dried leaves, nuts, berries, and twigs, either left a natural color or spray painted and varnished.

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