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60 Warm and Welcoming Front Porch Ideas

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Kristin Hohenadel

Kristin Hohenadel

Kristin Hohenadel is an interior design expert who has covered architecture, interiors, and decor trends for publications including the New York Times, Interior Design, Lonny, and the American and international editions of Elle Decor. She resides in Paris, France, and has traveled to over 30 countries, giving her a global perspective on home design.

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Updated on 07/14/22

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Your front porch is your home's best chance to make a good first impression. No matter how big or small it might be, whether it is showy or unassuming, and regardless of the style of architecture, your front porch deserves as much attention to design and decor as your interior space.

A front porch can function as nothing more than a pass-through space or double as a second outdoor living room. It can create a convenient landing space for comings and goings, or simply sit there looking pretty, inviting passersby to wonder what else you have going on inside.

Whether you are looking to enhance your home's curb appeal, create a welcoming portal for both you and your guests, or make life a little more pleasant for all of those hard-working delivery people who visit your doorstep every day, check out these front porches in a range of layouts and sizes that don't skimp on style for some clever ideas on how to beautify your own outdoor space.

50 Charming Front Porch Ideas

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Outdoor oasis, here we come.

By Hadley Mendelsohn

Joe Schmelzer

Remember Allie Hamilton's wrap-around porch in The Notebook? We've had a thing for porches ever since we saw it, and while we may not have our very own Noah to build us one from scratch, we do have a few more ideas to share with you. In fact, these designer and landscaper–approved back and front porches would elevate an outdoor oasis even more than Nicholas Spark's imaginary one did. Comfortable, stylish swings? Check. Mood lighting? Check. Ability to stand up to Mother Nature? Check. Now just add a good book and refreshing cocktail, and you've got a getaway that's just a step outside your front door. Get inspired by the 45 picturesque porches below.

Read McKendree

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Frame Windows and Screens with Paint

Bella Mancini enlivened this screen door and its wood frame with Santa Clara by Benjamin Moore. The color feels right at home with cedar shake and hydrangeas but has a note of distinct cheerfulness.

Victoria Pearson

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Build a Secure Closet for Packages

Between all the online orders and foot traffic, a secure spot for deliveries and accessories (like umbrellas) is more essential than ever. A delivery closet on the porch of our Whole Home Concept House 2018 even had a garment rack for dry cleaning.

James McDonald

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...or Just Stash Them In a Dresser

An antique dresser on a porch is the perfect place to have delivery drivers stash packages. Nicola Harding treated this one like it's in a grand foyer, embellishing it with plants, artwork, and lighting.

Karyn Millet

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Create Cover With a Small Awning

Mix-and-match tiles aren't just for your interiors—they add instant intrigue to a front porch. Here, Sharon Lee alternated patterns on the step risers for an unexpected dose of personality. A custom awning in Sunbrella fabric provides a hint of shade.

Paul Costello

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Consider a Breezeway

From the outside, this green breezeway—which doubles as a flower-arranging room and was designed by Rebecca Vizard—makes a strong first impression, and the garden flowers pop against the gravel and tile path leading to the front door. To pull this off in your own home, keep it ground level and opt for a partially covered walk-through space instead of an elevated porch.

Paul Raeside

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Make It Cheerful

Potted sunflowers and plaid throw pillows on the garden bench align nicely with the quaint feel of the stone exterior home by Shazalynn Winfrey.

Phoebe Howard

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Disguise Tech Features

The rounded door is framed by bougainvillea, giving the front porch entrance to this home by Phoebe Howard. secret garden vibe. Colorful blooms also distract the eye from the high-tech keypad over the door handle.

Tamsin Johnson Interiors

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Build In Your Garden

A built-in garden bed is bursting with succulents, the ideal match for a modern home exterior. They're just tall enough to enhance privacy without totally blocking the view from the living room designed by Tamsin Johnson.

Emily Followill

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Tease a Color

This shade of blue paint was used throughout the home designed by Meredith McBrearty, so the front porch sets the tone for what lies ahead (and cools of the brick and warm tones in the entryway!).

Joe Schmelzer

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Hook Up a Water Feature

Designed by Cuff Home, this porch has major curb appeal. From the black shutters to the turquoise front door, and manicured hedges. But what really sets it apart is the fountain, since water features always create unbeatable zen energy.

William Abranowicz

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Go Porchless

This modern stunner designed by Kathleen McCormick speaks for itself. The concrete steps, blue door, and steel and glass facade need no introduction.

THOMAS LOOF

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Scatter Seating Areas

Setting up multiple sitting areas will help you accommodate more people while also ensuring you get more use out of the space. To spruce things up, consider painting the columns, ceiling, and balustrades a fun color. Designer Amanda Reynal chose a mossy green hue for this nature-inspired porch.

Romanek Design Studio

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Optimize It With Lighting

If you want to be able to safely enjoy your backyard once the sun goes down, make sure you've optimized it with integrated lighting in the steps and sconces on the exterior of the home, as Romanek Design Studio did here. It'll also just make your life easier when coming and going.

Abney Morton

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Set Up an Herb Garden

Step up your style and cooking game by arranging a mini nursery or herb garden on the porch. Here, Abney Morton Interiors propped some pots of herbs up on a console table by the hanging swing.

Stephen Karlisch

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Keep It Simple

This Texas home designed by Jean Liu strikes the balance between natural beauty and practicality, perfect for its urban environment. The key: Pavers that complement the home's exterior material with a few trees and planting beds. Then, there's a slim overhang for extra lighting creating a more decorative impression over the front porch.

Trevor Tondro

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Truck It Away

Madeline Stuart gives this SoCal home by architects Wallace Neff and John Byers a sense of place with agave plants flanking the entrance and blooming bougainvillea spilling over the wall. Though the front porch isn't visible from the street entrance, it still has plenty of curb appeal.

Eliza Carter

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Secure It With a Gate

Create the illusion of extra privacy (and an extra safety barrier for toddlers and pets) in a city home with an iron-wrought gate. They're a natural fit for Victorians and brownstones, like Eliza Carter's NYC home featured here.

Max Kim-Bee

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Screen It In

There are so many cozy window seats in this 1890s carriage house that it's hard for interior designer Lisa Tharp to keep track, and the screened porch is no exception. Overlooking the green New England countryside, it's a beautiful setting for a screened porch. Wherever your porch is, adding screens will keep the bugs out while still letting the breeze in so you can enjoy the best of both worlds.

JESSIE PREZA

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Spotlight a Motif

Flank the stairs to your front porch with stone sculptures shaped like a motif that speaks to your family or locality. On his Jacksonville, Florida, front porch, designer Fitz Pullins chose these fun pineapple-shaped sculptures in a corresponding stone material so they both pop and blend in.

Romanek Design Studio

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Treat It Like a Mudroom

Secure some hooks and slide in a bench or a pair of chairs to let your beach and pool gear dry instead of dripping throughout the house. Think of it as an outdoor mudroom. Romanek Design Studio opted for casual, minimalist furniture and decor for an understated, stylish impression in this Malibu home.

VICTORIA PEARSON

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Add a Fireplace

If your porch is large enough, add a fireplace and television so it can function as an outdoor family or living room. Take a cue from this leafy open-air porch designed by Sherry Hart and Jennifer Jones Condon and built by Ladisic Fine Homes.

Peti Lau

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Install Cameras

Install extra security, like a camera, but be sure to camouflage it into the surrounding environment. In this modern home by Peti Lau, the polished concrete flooring and wooden materials blend in with the surroundings and feel connected to the natural landscape, so you hardly even notice the little camera in the corner.

THOMAS LOOF

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Go Island-Inspired

When Clos-ette founder Melanie Fowler hired friend (and House Beautiful Next Wave designer) Caroline Rafferty to make over her Palm Beach house, she brought one major piece of inspo: The famously chic Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas, which Rafferty wove in through the house's pale-pink exterior and treillage-inspired woodwork. The lush surroundings were executed by landscape designer Fernando Wong.

JESSIE PREZA

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Hang a Bird Feeder

Pavers lead to this elevated front porch on a property designed by Krystal Matthews. While the understated planters and sweet-swinging bench certainly help set the mood, the details framing the area help, too, like the bird feeder hanging from a tree.

AP Design House

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Weather-Proof It

Enjoy your outdoor space rain or shine with details that can stand up to the elements. AP Design House weatherproofed this porch by adding timeless and design-forward Bermuda shutters and galvanized steel corrugated panels overhead.

Jane Beiles

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Add Shutters

Another way to weather-proof? Add the appropriate shutters. Here, Charlotte Barnes opted for classic shutters with slat-like louvers on the windows as well as Bahama shutters that attach from the top of the opening between the columns and open like an awning. They'll protect your porch from heavy tropical wind and rain while the hardware and paint color can add some aesthetic perks.

PHOTO: Tom Ferguson; DESIGN: Arent & Pyke

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Lay Graphic Floor Tiles

A graphic floor tile will personalize your front porch just enough. Take a cue from this design by Arent & Pyke, where a planter introduces greenery and an outdoor chair adds a dash of color. Clean, simple, and classic.

Joshua McHugh

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Keep It Open

If your front porch features a little alcove like this one designed by Raji RM, maintain the open airflow with a cutout or two that mimic the rest of the home's windows. Then add a bench to make it easier to get everything sorted as you come and go.

THOMAS LOOF

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Let Nature Take Center Stage

Looking out at the sea ahead and draped in a canopy of tropical plants, this porch features minimal decor, allowing us to focus on the natural environment. Instead of a sitting area, there's a casual dining nook for al fresco meals.

PHOTO: Scott Hargis DESIGN: Regan Baker Design

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Make It Cozy

This back porch by Regan Baker Design is a perfect private spot to unwind in. To make it conducive to entertaining, bring in large outdoor floor cushions for additional floor seating.

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100+ ideas!!! | Do-it-yourself porch to the house (50 photos)

A porch for a private house is an indispensable element in the arrangement of any modern home. Since the aesthetic and functional design of the entrance becomes a “business card” and a reflection of the preferences of the household, a competent approach is required for the construction of this structure, in particular, the selection of suitable materials. The design of the porch of the house should create a sense of integrity of the overall ensemble and enhance the attractiveness of the main building. In the article we will talk about how to make a porch to the house with your own hands and what nuances you should pay attention to in order to avoid gross mistakes.

Porch construction types

The general design of the porch is an open area, combined with a staircase, directly in front of the front door. Additional elements - a canopy, fences, walls and glazing can be made from a variety of materials and any shape if desired.

There are three main types of porch:

  1. Simple . It is carried out in the form of a platform at the entrance. A staircase is necessarily equipped and such a porch is often supplemented with a canopy.
  2. Fitted . It is designed at the stage of preparing the drawings of the whole house, therefore it has a common foundation with it and is being built capitally.
  3. Attached . It is constructed (attached) after the construction of the main building.

Porch steps to the house with beautiful lighting

An interesting stylistic solution for decorating the porch made of concrete and brick

Foundation for the porch

To prevent deformations due to temperature differences, a foundation must be built under the porch. Its appearance depends on the material planned for use for construction, design and dimensions.

If a small porch is intended, oriented only to provide a convenient entrance to the house, then it is enough to equip a concrete pad.

Manufacturing technology: step-by-step instructions

Do-it-yourself foundation for the porch of a private house is carried out in several stages:

Porch area marking

For formwork construction, you can use edged boards or moisture-resistant plywood. For the first option, boards sheathed from the inside with roofing felt, which has good water-repellent properties, will be required. To prevent excess mortar from flowing out, the boards must be laid tightly against each other.

The photo shows how to assemble the formwork for the porch from plywood and boards

To save concrete, the base of the steps can be filled with broken stone or bricks

When constructing an entrance from heavy blocks, bricks, it will be necessary to create a stronger reinforced foundation. Such a decision is also necessary in the case of the construction of a spacious porch, which involves the arrangement of a recreation area with the installation of furniture and other accessories.

Wooden porch

Wood is the most versatile porch material for DIY projects. Often used inexpensive and fairly durable when making a protective paint layer pine. More expensive larch will provide high strength after impregnation.

To work with wood, you will need a small set of tools

Porch steps should be convenient for climbing and descending

Wood structures allow you to decorate the entrance with elements of country style, Provence, classics. They are easily combined with stone, forged and wicker elements.

Photo examples of a wooden porch

Modern wooden porch

Concrete porch

Concrete is considered the most versatile, affordable and cheap material used to make a porch. A monolithic structure created in accordance with all the rules is durable and reliable. It has maintained its integrity for many years and is easily restored.

Concrete is a practical and reliable material that can withstand heavy loads

An important advantage is that a concrete structure can be given any shape. When decorating, you can decorate a concrete porch using a variety of decorative elements.

Finish similar structures with clinker tiles, stone. They are plastered and painted. If the facade of the house is made of brick or wood, the concrete entrance is often left without an external coating, emphasizing the overall static balanced composition.

Classic concrete porch

Monolithic concrete porch with many steps

Concrete porch is usually clad with outdoor ceramic granite floor tiles with a corrugated pattern

Monolithic reinforced slab in front of the entrance plays the role of a kind of porch to the house 9002 should be treated with a hydrophobic compound, this will significantly increase its resistance to moisture and frost

Metal porch

If you have the welding equipment and the necessary material, you can build a metal porch within one day.

This design looks ordinary, so elegant forged elements often act as an additional decor. They significantly increase the overall cost of the building, but allow you to get an original luxurious accent.

Luxury wrought iron porch

Metal structures complement other materials used for decking and steps. Chipboards, wooden planks are used. The final durable coating can be made of porcelain stoneware.

Metal is best combined with wood, their tandem is able to decorate any home

Metal porch with a canopy made of polycarbonate

Porch made of stone, brick

Brick or stone masonry looks prestigious when erecting a porch. But these operations require specific skills, so if necessary, they turn to specialists.

The construction takes a lot of time, but the end result will please for decades, while the external decor does not lose its charm and nobility.

Red brick porches look stylish and unusual

Installation of a canopy over the porch

The main functional role of the canopy (single or double slope, figured, domed, arched), erected above the porch, is to protect it from any precipitation.

However, at the design stage, the aesthetic component of this structural element should also be considered. This will add an additional decorative touch to the overall harmonious ensemble.

Materials used

Open porch canopy made of painted wooden beams

Fabric porch canopy will protect the entrance to the house from sun and rain

Porch ideas (photo)

The main structure of the porch is usually planned immediately when designing the house. Later, ideas may arise for its further modernization, increasing space, introducing new functional roles.

Architectural options

  1. Open porch . It is a platform equipped at the front door. From above, a small canopy is usually built. For restriction, you can install on the edges of the railing. The advantages include simple installation, quick construction. The downside is the lack of wind protection.
  2. Closed porch . This variation with side walls allows you to get an entrance to the house, protected from external adverse influences. To preserve lighting, the side walls are glazed completely or in fragments. When calculating individual frames, take into account that their width should not exceed 120 cm in order to withstand wind loads. The main frame of the walls is made in metal or wood.
  3. Tambour . A fairly spacious extension, covering the porch from all sides along with the steps and providing for wall insulation, allows you to reliably protect the house from the penetration of cold. Inside, they usually equip places for storing outerwear, shoes, umbrellas.
  4. Double sided porch . When constructing such a structure, the stairs are located on both sides. When supplemented with openwork wrought iron railings, they create a respectable finished look of the whole house.

Tip! A porch with a reliable canopy and side glazed walls allows you to equip a comfortable seating area. It is enough to install a coffee table, a few light chairs and create a cozy corner where you can relax after a hard day's work.

Beautiful combination of white and green colors in the design of the facade of a country house

Elegant snow-white porch in the Scandinavian style

Porch with access to the backyard of the house

Large vases with flowers will gallantly decorate the entrance to the house

An example of decoration and decoration of the porch

If the porch area is small, measures to expand it are carried out in terms of adding an open terrace or a capital closed veranda to it. In such a situation, they receive an additional summer room. By installing wicker furniture in it, they get a comfortable living room. To protect against insects, the open terrace is covered with a mosquito net or decorated with a light muslin.

More static wooden sofas and armchairs, complemented by soft pillows, will organically look on the veranda. Additional decor is given by floor or wall planters with plants. Often, a dining area is taken out to the porch, combined with a veranda.

It is important to provide and equip the entrance to the house with unobtrusive lighting

Porch with a low brick plinth

In addition to the table, chairs, there are compact shelving with closed facades for the necessary dishes and utensils. Increasingly, plastic pieces of furniture are used for this purpose. They are light, mobile, have a pleasant smooth texture and bright decor.


For furniture ensembles with metal legs, a durable floor covering is provided. If the frame is forged, this brings an element of luxury to the surrounding space.

White color radiates warmth and calmness even in autumn days

Rattan furniture blends harmoniously with the stone finish of the house

On a fairly spacious terrace, a barbecue area is often equipped next to the dining area. It is important to choose a non-combustible material for wall and floor cladding.

Having provided a sufficient height of the porch with a combined spacious terrace, a hanging swing is equipped on it. Having made them in the form of a comfortable sofa or a wicker chair, they complement not only the recreation area, but also create a comfortable children's corner. Sun loungers and hammocks will bring comfort.

Suspended porch swing is a dream for many

When expanding the porch in the form of a veranda, it is necessary to install waterproofing under the floor or wall covering. After the competent performance of all work, they receive an additional room. It can be not only a living room or dining room, but also a bedroom or study.

After installing panoramic windows on the insulated veranda, they get an excellent space for a home greenhouse. To enhance the perception of comfort, a bookcase, banquettes or small chairs are installed. In such a corner it is pleasant to read or work on the computer.

Tip! For cool weather, the porch provides the possibility of connecting a mobile electric fireplace. Having picked up a model with imitation of bursts of natural flame, they create a calming romantic atmosphere.

Soft lighting delicately decorates the wooden beams

Porch decoration tips

Porch interior decoration is usually done in light colors, visually expanding the limited space. Different materials are selected for facing the platform, steps, part of the wall and the surface around the porch.

Porch cladding materials

  1. Ceramic tiles . Among the advantages, a variety of textures and color shades are noted, which provides high decorativeness. Products with a rough surface are selected, which will prevent injury when moisture freezes on it. More often use frost-resistant durable clinker tiles. When laying out, certain skills are required, since it is necessary to maintain a constant thickness of the seams and to prepare a smooth rough surface with high quality.
  2. Paving slabs . When facing the porch planes with paving slabs resistant to any weather conditions, it is possible to obtain a reliable, aesthetic, durable coating. The range of this material allows you to choose both plain smooth and embossed or patterned planes. Having paved the path and the surface of the earth around the porch with the same material, they get a completed sophisticated look.
  3. Natural stone . The porch lined with natural stone looks prestigious and very decorative. Granite finishing lasts up to a hundred years without losing its solid decorative effect. Aristocratic elegant marble is becoming more and more common. It is advisable to select such material for closed porch types. Be sure to reinforce the anti-slip pads.
  4. Porcelain stoneware . Durable solid porcelain stoneware from the range with non-slip surfaces on the exterior decor is not inferior to stone. Its cost is lower, which leads to increasing popularity. It should be borne in mind that special equipment will be required to cut this hard material. Before laying, the surfaces to be trimmed are carefully leveled.

Perfectly organized home porch seating area

Classic gable roof porch

When constructing the porch of the house with their own hands, other materials are also used. It can be quite durable siding. A fairly extensive color palette is offered by manufacturers. You can choose a material that imitates wood, stone, brick.

Concrete surfaces are easy to plaster. If desired, perform a variety of relief texture, use options for decorative plaster. Such flat surfaces are in perfect harmony with additional decorative elements.

If the porch is high, for safety it must be equipped with reliable and durable railings

By carefully considering the form, materials used, functional role, it is possible to obtain an exclusive organic design of the porch, which reliably protects the entrance to the house. When complemented with comfortable furniture, green plants, decorative accessories, they get an original accent that adorns not only the building, but also the surrounding landscape.

Do-it-yourself porch to the house

The entrance to the house is the visiting card of the owners, so you need to make sure that it looks presentable. It is difficult to make a favorable impression of the dwelling as a whole, if the porch is built somehow, its design should emphasize the beauty of your house, its style and add a kind of “zest”. The times of inharmonious buildings or houses of the same type are in the past - today families want to see their home not only cozy, but also having its own bright individual face.

The first thing that shows this way of looking at things is the neat steps at the entrance. Let us consider in more detail what to choose if you decide to make a porch to the house with your own hands.

Beautiful porch project attached to the house

Wooden porch

The most popular and affordable option is the construction of a wooden porch. Most often, these simple structures are made of pine, it is inexpensive, aesthetically pleasing, and therefore popular.

Pine has a beautiful texture, if you properly install such a porch, carefully open it with varnish or paint, then it will look great for many years.

White wooden porch

It is not difficult to make a wooden porch on your own, the main thing is to have the simplest skills of a carpenter

The photo shows an option for decorating a porch made of unpainted wood , decor. In the latter version, the porch will already resemble a small terrace.

Wood can be combined with natural stone, it is relevant in different styles, looks harmonious, suitable for building a platform, as a small decoration.

Porch steps should be easy to get on and off

Spectacular combination of black and white

Very often, houses built from wooden materials actually repeat the simple and modern urban architecture, although it does not always blend with the surrounding nature. If this has already happened, and the house, for one reason or another, was built according to an unpretentious project, the porch can save the whole thing.

It can be antique-styled, carved, decorated with a large number of decorative elements. It is good if the gates are made in the same style. This option, combined with a well-groomed landscape, will correct the situation, and make your home unlike any other, give it a unique look.

You can organize a recreation area right on your home porch

Wooden porch - the best solutions for budget construction

Spacious terrace with a porch

Construction options for wooden porches with balusters and railings

Stone porch stairs

- this is a classic stone steps version of the porch of the house. In addition to durability and strength, the stone is always beautiful, the home will look presentable.

There are many varieties of natural and artificial stone, some suitable for laying out the base, and others for arranging a decorative element, it all depends on the style of the house.

Stone porch with massive wooden canopy

Concrete porch base with stone pillars

Beautiful country house with luxurious finishes

You can choose granite or marble, sandstone or quartz, dolomite - all these materials will work for the project and many others. Take into account not only beauty, but also practicality. For example, steps made of polished granite are flawless, but they are very slippery, rubble stone does not look so presentable, but it lasts a long time and is easy to lay with your own hands.

Tip! If you wish, you can build a large porch with monumental columns, the main thing is that it fits into the overall style of your home.

Stone is a strong and durable building material that can last more than fifty years

Chalet style house

Metal and wrought porch

canopies and railings, less often they make steps from metal. However, a fully metal porch looks elegant and expensive.

In addition to aesthetics, the undoubted advantage is a high degree of strength and long service life. With your own hands, if not the experience of working with metal, it is difficult to build such a porch. However, you still have to put your hands on it, since it will often have to be painted and processed, otherwise the metal porch will become unusable due to corrosion.

Wrought iron elements of the porch look stylish and noble

Wrought iron pieces look very nice in combination with natural marble

Important! Take into account that metal steps are cold and slippery, it may be worth equipping a wooden deck.

Very beautiful and unusual porch with a friendly design

Brick porch

Attractive, solid and presentable version of the brick porch is also considered a reliable and practical solution for the exterior design of a home.

Installation of this design will take a lot of time, you will have to make an effort, but the work will pay off later in operation, because it will not require serious additional maintenance and constant repairs.

The use of brick in the construction of a porch is always justified from an aesthetic point of view

Brick is a material that is resistant to mechanical damage and can withstand heavy loads

Very often a brick porch has a concrete base, sometimes steps are covered with other materials. For example, they can be tiled, it looks cozy and homely. Again, as with the options outlined above, you need to make sure that the porch is not excessively slippery, otherwise in winter ice and snow will make your entrance to the house potentially dangerous, especially for children and the elderly.

Brick porch of the house practically does not require any maintenance

Concrete porch

Concrete is not only a versatile material, it is reliable, besides, any concrete project becomes budgetary by default. A concrete porch is a completely monolithic single structure, it will not stagger like a wooden one after a while.

In addition, the scope for creativity in terms of decorating the porch is almost endless. Concrete can be given any shape, any color or shade, and this will not affect the total cost of your project in any way.

Simple cast-in-place concrete porch

A concrete porch is often tiled. Often there are interesting options that are finished with stone, painted, processed with other materials.

In a wide variety of buildings, wood, brick, covered with siding, a concrete porch can be left without any decoration or special coating. The main thing is that it should be done carefully, and this will imperceptibly emphasize the decorative features of the house, the texture of the walls, etc.

Interesting porch design made of stones and concrete

Porch decoration, a bit about style

Ideally, any home decoration should be correctly combined with other elements, not only with the facade, but also with the fence, gates, even with a path and green spaces. The porch can be decorated in different ways, including tiles or polycarbonate, but this should be appropriate.


Tiles can be installed on both concrete and brick, this not only increases its attractiveness, but also helps to equip an additional seating area. Tiles should be carefully selected in style and color, in accordance with the chosen style of the entire site. Let's take a closer look at some of the styles.

Eternal classics in design

Recognizable features of any design in the classical style are rigor, exquisite consistency, harmonious moderation in decor. Usually, the porch in a house built in a classical style is equipped not only with a canopy, but is also complemented by beautiful decorative columns, classic railings with soft-shaped balusters.

Traditional finishing materials are stone (marble, granite), various ceramic tiles, as well as painted and carefully crafted wood.

Classic porch design with an open decorative canopy

In a classic style, decor is quite acceptable, and homeowners often like to work on it themselves, which, as a rule, gives the home a unique look and homeliness. It should be remembered that the classical style gravitates towards symmetry and correctness, clarity of all lines.

It is better to make the canopy over the porch high, and the stairs themselves wide, and not very steep. Beautiful railings with wrought iron elements are always appropriate, the style of which should be repeated in the decorative finish of the gate.

Country style porch

The style of cosiness and rustic simple charm is timeless, no matter what country you are inspired by. A beautiful wooden staircase will be ideal for almost any style of country style, American, English or French.

Finishing in this style is accepted only with natural materials, concrete or polycarbonate will have to be abandoned, natural wood, rough stone will do.

Successful layout of a wooden porch attached to a stone house

Important! When building a porch with your own hands, you need to ensure that the texture of living natural material is preserved. Street lights with diffused yellow light and "grandmother's" rugs on the steps are appropriate in any country.

Designing a porch in country style is not so easy, there are many features and nuances in this direction of construction

Porch decorated in Russian style

In Russia, for a long time, the front entrance to the hut was not just beautiful, but frankly exquisite. The best craftsmen worked on the construction of the porch, it was decorated with complex carved ornaments and patterns, balusters and pillars of the most complex shapes. Today, the "Russian style" in the decoration of the porch is very popular.

In this case, manual work is not only appropriate, but also desirable, and if you know how to work with wood and can make an openwork porch with your own hands, then it is simply necessary to apply your talents here.

Russian-style architecture - very beautiful and elegant

The peculiarity of the "Russian" porch in the classic design is that it is not covered with colored paint, usually transparent varnish is used, since the texture of living wood should be noticeable. It is allowed to use wood stain, light toning of wood. There are no other strict canons in finishing styles, it all depends on the imagination and skill of the author.

Finnish Porch

Like almost any trend born in the Nordic countries, this Scandinavian style should demonstrate simplicity, but at the same time reliability and absolute strength.

Finnish-style house with a cute little porch

A canopy over the porch will protect the front entrance from snow and rain

Durable and beautiful construction of the stone porch

French charm in the design of the porch

French style involves a large number of different decorations, for example, in the form of ornate wrought iron bars on the railing, the front door, on which there should be a small glass “window”, is decorated with the same bars » in the middle.

The French porch is decorated with a variety of curly details, on the wide steps you need to find a place for several wicker baskets with fresh flowers.

High-tech porch

Taking into account the general style of the high-tech direction, you can see that it is appropriate to have straight and beautiful stairs, made with careful finishing of details. If concrete is not appropriate in the country, then here it is more than desirable, especially in combination with shiny metal and glass. Steps should be wide, as this style likes a lot of free empty space.

The black and white color palette is complemented by a metallic sheen. It is very cool to decorate the railing with shiny elements made of perforated metal, similar to factory blanks. A metal-plastic door is ideal for such a porch. As a decor, it is good to use “industrial” type lamps with white or cold neon light, which are usually mounted on each step of the porch.

Porch staircase with graceful illumination

How to decorate the porch attached to the house (photo)

The variant of the patio porch has already been considered above, the main decor of such a porch is greenery and flowers. On such a porch, a special platform is made, designed for small decorative flower pots, or arranging a cozy place for a short rest.

Flowers can be placed on specially made forged stands, hung in beautiful planters, placed around the entire perimeter of the fence, hung against the wall near the entrance to the house.

Home porch decoration options

Nothing decorates the entrance to your home like flowers. They are appropriate for any style, if your porch is completely low, climbing roses or clematis, hop branches can be sent to the fence. All this will not only add coziness to your home, but also create additional shade on a hot summer day.

Tip! To better protect the entrance to the house from the sun, you can use light fabrics when decorating the porch, this is especially appropriate in French and country style.

The natural color of the wood goes well with all shades

Harmonious porch design with thoughtful seating

When planning additional porch decoration, especially if you have a small patio, purchase small garden furniture.

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