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Colorful Fall Front Porch

September 17, 2015 By Erica Deuel 5 Comments

Disclaimer: The paint I received for free. Thank you Modern Masters for so generously gifting it to me. All opinions are very much my own.

Fall is here. With the new season comes change, fresh starts, and lots of color.

As much as I love the simplicity and beauty in white, clean, and simple, my heart goes pitter-patter for color. It always has. It should be no surprise then that fall is my favorite season. The change of weather, the colorful layers of clothing, and the brilliant leaves have me looking forward to fall all year-long.

Last year, we kind of missed fall with our move from Georgia. We moved before Georgia’s fall and after Indiana‘s. I was robbed, which made me all the more excited for it this year. I started prepping my fall porch mid summer. Let me give you a little before preview, so you can see what I had.

There is nothing horribly wrong. It’s actually pretty simple, clean, and neutral.

I don’t think any of those words describe me though. I have big dreams of expanding the porch and replacing the white columns with thick wood ones, but until that day comes, I did a few more inexpensive changes to make the front entrance of my house feel a little warmer and colorful.

One of the first things I did was brighten up the light fixtures with a fresh coat of spray paint. Next, I stuck a few flowering bulbs into my plain wreath to give it a little life and fun color as well.

I bought a few new things like a metal mail box, rug, and yellow chair to add some fun textures and color to my space.

As fall came, I added some mums to my hello pots and got some pumpkins. I feel like my front porch is one of the few decorated for fall (let alone with a pumpkin out front) in town. I joked with a friend that this southern girl’s style may stick out like a sore thumb up north. She assured me fall decoration is done up here, it’s just that no one wants to admit fall is here because that means the snow is coming.

The biggest change was switching out my front door paint. I needed color. I have never lived in a red brick house, so I was not sure which direction to go. I knew I did not want to choose the wrong color and have to do this project more than once, so I turned to my friends for help. I got lots of helpful opinions in a poll on Instagram. Navy, Yellow, Mint, and (my pick) purple were the top runners. I wanted to use Modern Masters Front Door Paint and lucky me they have an app to help. I was able to try these different colors on my front door by just taking a picture in the app of my door.

I had a lot of fun with the app (available for both iPhone and Android) and landed on purple. I love how it adds a fun pop of color, yet it is not as out there as the yellow.

I love how it turned out! I liked the look of the yellow against the red brick (just not for the whole door), so that it why I ended up using lots of accents for my porch in yellow.

I was a little nervous when I painted the first coat. It was so bright. I wondered if I would regret my decision, but I pressed on.

I realized the color I was using was such a dark color and contrast to the white-it just needed several coats. I ended up doing three coats, and it was worth it!

I only have good things to say about this paint! Your front door is the one of the most important elements on the exterior of your home. Let it express you and say welcome. Modern Masters has created 24 beautiful colors inspired by the emotional color wheel. My purple is actually called Spiritual. Which may not be a surprise.

Their paint is water based, quick drying, and contains non-fading technology that allows you to paint and close the door all in the same day.

Available at HomeDepot.com, selected Lowe’s stores nationwide, and the Modern Masters online shop.

Painting your front door is easy, quick curb appeal. Don’t be afraid to try something new and bold! If you would like a more detailed tutorial on how to paint your front door, watch this one minute video.

Fall is so colorful with the beautiful leaves and now so is my front porch. It felt like the perfect time to share this little makeover with you.

There is one little addition to this porch makeover that I did NOT contribute. Did you catch the beautiful chalk heart behind my yellow chair? That was created by my Jeremiah because he “loves me”. I have not had the heart to wash it off, although he did get a little “please keep chalk on the driveway” from now on talk.

Do you have any fall projects on your list? I can scratch painting my front porch off mine. It’s time for another project.

Recycled Wreath

June 4, 2013 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

Decorating your home can be expensive. The constant changing of holidays and seasons could make you go broke with all the cute options of stuff to buy. I love to decorate for the holidays and adding slight changes to represent the current season but have come up with some frugal ways to make it possible. I want to show you one of my tricks today with my new summer wreath.

I created a simple rustic wreath for our old front door. My wreath was simple in color and design because the door was a bright cherry red. They looked good together. After moving and trying to put that same wreath on our now dark burgundy door, it just didn’t give the same warm feel. The wreath got lost and looked old and bland.

I decided to spice it up with some new elements to create a new wreath while recycling parts of the old wreath. By using parts of the old wreath, I kept the cost down for a new wreath. Here you can see my old wreath with the new flowers I bought to help spice it up.

The frist thing I did was to strip my old wreath of everything I had added to it. I pulled off all the flowers and kind of created two piles out of the stuff. One pile was elements I thought I was going to throw away and the other was stuff I wanted to try to use again.

Next, I pulled off all my fake flowers off the long stems they came on.

I placed them onto my wreath mixed in with the burlap elements from my old wreath that I wanted to try to use again. I played around with the placement of all the different pieces.

Once I had them laid out in a way I liked, I pulled out my hot glue gun and started hot glueing them all into place.

After they were all hot glued, my new wreath was complete! I think the new flowers cost about $8.00 all together, so I got a whole new wreath that matched my flower pots and taste perfectly for $8.00.

I love the way the front entrance of our house now looks. The new wreath and flower pots really helped spruce up our front porch. What about you? Have you ever destroyed something you created to create something new?

Hello Pot

June 3, 2013 By Erica Deuel 6 Comments

What do you think of when you read that title? An earth toned flower pot repainted in a sizzling purple with a greeting for guests as they walk up to my front door? Yes, that’s exactly what I thought too! Glad we are on the same page.

I’ve always thought it was odd that when people come to your front door-they wipe their feet on the normal welcome greeting. I decided to go a different direction. It was really simple and I want to show you how you can make one of your own. But maybe a “Hello” pot isn’t what you are looking for. You could go with a “Love” Pot, “Happy” Pot, “Peace” Pot. Again, we are talking flower pots, stick with me people.

After I got my flower pots and taped off the area I didn’t want to paint, I was ready to add some color to these dull pots. I decided to go with purple because ~~it’s my favorite color~~ I thought it would look pretty with the gray/dark tones in the rock on my house. It took a couple of different coats of paint till I found the right shade of purple I wanted. That is the beauty with paint-you can keep covering it up with a new color if you don’t like it at first!

Once I liked the color of my flower pots, I printed off an oval from google images and cut it out. I taped the edges of the paper to my pot and spray painted the inside a nice creme color. Note: the spray paint will stick to the pot now that it is going on top of the acrylic paint and not just trying to stick to the pot instead.

I then used some black acrylic paint and free-handed “hello” into the center of the oval. I really liked the look, but decided it was too coloring in the lines for my taste. I wanted to rough it up some, so I used 60 grit sandpaper and sanded over the whole pot (including my hello design).

This might sound crazy, but I used a wood gray stain next on my pots. I painted the whole pot with the stain, and then started rubbing it off right away. I love how it stuck to the unpainted part of the pot. It made it kind of seem iridescent. It added a slight color, but still shows through to the natural finish of the pot.

My last step was to spray the entire pots with a shiny clear finish. This step made them look more finished. I love how just a little paint and time totally changed the look of these cheap flower pots. They add a sense of warmth, color, and sweet welcoming touch to my front porch that reflects us better than the brown clay pots. Now, if I can only keep these flowers alive, so I don’t have to plant my burlap flowers in these new pots!

I think the purple looks really good with the rock on our house. It blends in nicely, but adds a fun color pop as well. These pots help accent the purple in our wreath too. I spruced up the wreath I made for our last front door and will be sharing more of those details tomorrow, so I hope you will come back to check it out!

Note: The winner of the Mohawk Home rug is A. Bearchell!! Congrats friend! I will be in touch!

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