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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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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.

5 best ideas for arranging a veranda or terrace in your home

Top-of-the-line solutions spied on by the pros: functionality, materials, style.

Publication date: 05/13/2022

Prepared by: Julia Sakharova

What unites modern verandas and terraces is that they are large and spacious: there is often a seating area (similar to a living room) and a dining room. Sometimes they arrange a mini-garden into which heat-loving plants are taken out for the summer. There are houses in which the terrace goes around the whole house, expanding - for example, in the dining area, living room. So, in the example below, the terraces are equipped on the second floor too, next to the bedrooms.

Authors of the project: Maria Bakhareva, Nikita Bakharev. Photo: Mikhail Stepanov.

That's in terms of function, but what about styles? We have selected 5 of the most relevant examples.

Listed in the video are the styles for your porch or terrace

1. Country style

Modern country, or farmhouse style, is the third most searched search engine. (The second one is industrial style, the first one is Scandinavian, and we will return to them later.) In our modern suburban construction, country has absorbed many components, including the romance of a Russian dacha. No one directly copies it, unless we are talking about restoration (and we had material about this).

General view of a country house. Project authors: Gulya Akhmetshina, Sergey Barabadze. Photo: Sergey Morgunov.

On the other hand, “lace” elements on the facades and a spacious terrace for unhurried tea parties overlooking the garden are the best that the dacha aesthetics gives us. Why not use them? You can paint the “lace” white, as in the example above, or you can dream up and choose a different shade for them.

2. In industrial style

In the example below, the terraces, in accordance with the appearance of the house, are strictly geometric, with metal elements. Nature, sea view both emphasize and soften the industrial sound of these forms and materials.

The house on the Black Sea coast looks like a ship. One of the verandas Project author: Elena Paunich. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov.

If you're after a less uncompromising industrial look to wood, this traditional country building material softens the picture.

3. In the spirit of Scandinavian

This house is quite eclectic (as it was intended), while the veranda carries a positive charge of Scandinavian style. Laconic wooden furniture, a designer lamp and an indispensable plaid (Scandi without this detail is not quite Scandi) look organically on a simple wooden veranda overlooking the Gulf of Finland.

4. Urbanism in nature

It's a fact: interiors in the spirit of urbanism look great in nature. And such verandas or terraces can also be very good. They are modern, relevant, elegant. They emphasize the status of a country house, bringing it closer to a city residence.

5. The main thing: landscape

This is also a very popular design technique: to make the veranda absolutely neutral, and the landscape - exquisitely luxurious. At the same time, of course, the veranda will require continuous glazing so as not to miss anything in the changing life of the garden.

Fragment of a house on the sea. Covered terrace near the pool. Project author: Elena Tuysuzyan. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov.

Option - terrace under a canopy. In the example below, an almost invisible glass railing is made.

Maybe it's time to expand the veranda? Create something of your own, special. And we are always happy to share news and help with advice.

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Content:

  1. Interesting ideas
  2. Small porch
  3. Large terrace
  4. Country style
  5. Modern decor
  6. Dutch style
  7. Combination of veranda and living room
  8. Glazed terrace

Properly built veranda or terrace is an extremely important element of the whole house. When designing a house, this element should be taken into account. The veranda can be a place where the whole family will spend time together, laugh and relax. Thanks to this article, you can not only find out the huge benefits of having a veranda, but also see a lot of photos for creating it.

Beautiful terrace-veranda extension to the house: interesting ideas

The entrance to the house is his business card, so it is worthwhile to arrange this place beautifully. The porch and veranda are building elements in the entrance area. An attached veranda or terrace to the house can be:

Small veranda: how to decorate the entrance to the house?

A small porch doesn't give you much room to show off, but with a few details you can completely change its look. To make the mini-veranda more comfortable, you should pay attention to its lighting. Garlands of lights wrapped around the pillars are sure to make your entrance inviting. You can also decorate the space with climbing plants, which will create an idyllic and homely atmosphere. On a beautiful veranda, it is also worth putting a bench or chair to sit in the shade in front of the house in warm weather. When you have enough space, you can arrange large potted plants on the porch or complete the terrace with other decorative elements.

Large terrace - lots of possibilities

Large terrace allows you to place more elements in the room. An interesting solution is a swing on the veranda, as well as a rocking chair or a hammock. Having a built-in veranda, you can use it to install a small sofa and armchairs, as well as an additional summer living room. The most important thing is that the porch is neat and tidy, so do not store unnecessary things, unused flower pots, etc.

Beautiful verandas and terraces for a wooden house: country style

A veranda is a separate room attached to the house from the entrance side. It is often fully developed, but can also be open or semi-open, offering excellent location options. Since the veranda is mainly associated with rural architecture, it is usually arranged in such a way as to promote relaxation in an idyllic landscape. Choose structural elements made of wood, which are in perfect harmony with the house made of timber. However, in the veranda it is better to use a tree that copes well with moisture, and is also completely protected from the harmful effects of moisture. You can also opt for laminate or wood look tiles, which will provide the desired effect but are much more durable than natural material.

Preferred furniture

Another important thing is furniture. It is worth betting either on wooden models or on forged elements. If they are painted white, you can give the veranda or terrace the atmosphere of a Provencal mansion among lavender fields. Wicker and rattan furniture would also be an excellent choice. If you choose techno-rattan, it is better to decorate your interior with classic furniture.

Interesting landscaping

In addition, there should be as many flowers on the porch as possible. Plants are hung on the walls, placed on the floor, and climbing varieties often reach the ceiling. In this way, you will get a great eco effect on the veranda, which will contribute to relaxation.

Atmospheric lighting

For lighting, choose wall lamps that will be stylized as lanterns. It also does not hurt to install one central and ceiling lamp - necessarily adapted for outdoor use. On warm days and evenings, lanterns and candles will be useful.

Terrace in modern style

Nowadays, people often decorate the terrace as a living room. Appropriate equipment is selected, greenery is placed in large decorative pots, comfortable seats and practical tables are selected. The comfortable arrangement of the terrace should be complex, as it is necessary to combine architecture, interior and landscape.

Fixed elements placed on the terrace can be seen by passers-by. If vertical components are used, such as wood panels, they should be the same as the architectural elements used on the façade. Terrace arrangement in a modern style is best adapted to the interior of the house, so that the outdoor space is an extension of the stylish rooms.

Arrangement of the veranda near the house in the Dutch style

The arrangement of the interior of the house, surrounded on all sides by terraces, is extremely light. And this is an important feature that architects who design in the Dutch style pay attention to. Previously, apartments in Dutch houses were narrow and deep. In modern construction, you can see the return of this trend. White, black and wood shades are very popular in the Netherlands. Lighting the interiors of houses with plenty of daylight makes even the long winter months less dull and gloomy. And the arrangement of the terrace in the Dutch style is unparalleled in the summer.

A good terrace should be connected to the living room

For the terrace to be an extension of the living room, you must attach great importance to the similarity of the surface, maintaining a smooth transition of the floor from the room to the terrace. Of course, you can't often use the same material in both places, unless it's stone, but try to at least keep the same color. Wooden surfaces work great on terraces, especially when combined with greenery, decorative large stones and an ivy-covered wall.

Terrace idea in glazed version

You can create a beautiful terrace for your house, which will become a continuation of the living room in the interior thanks to the glazed wall. On the terrace it is possible to use a gray floor with garden furniture made of technoratane.

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