If you missed out on enjoying your porch this summer, there is still time to sit back and relax. In fact, fall may be the best time of year to enjoy that porch!
Stacy Alms, Owner of Illusions Complete Home Solutions is devoted to capturing the essence of every detail. With a passion for design, Stacy loves helping clients create a unique atmosphere that accommodates their personal style. With an appreciation for timeless yet progressive styles, Stacy gives her clients the ability to design spaces that will continue to look classic as trends evolve.
As a designer, Stacy enjoys transforming porches for every season, making an outdoor space feel more like an indoor space. For comfort, Stacy suggests adding outdoor rugs, spacious chairs with weather-resistant cushions, and outdoor throws and blankets. For ambiance, outdoor candles, lanterns, and fire pits add light and warmth. For decor, incorporate fall plants to flowers to extend the blooming season of summer into the growing and harvesting season of fall. Mixing plants like mums, aster, grasses, and decorative cabbage with late flower blooms adds color and dimension to planters.
Reuse fall cleanup items by cutting and drying tree branches, twigs, or any pruning item that will hold up well. Twig arrangements create a minimal and rustic touch. Wrap twinkly lights around twig arrangements or tree trunks for a welcoming spotlight! Fill outdoor glass lanterns with dried flower heads, pinecones, twigs, and leaves, and hang them from trees. For Halloween, hang larger tree branches from the porch with spooky spider webs draping down, or fill classic pumpkin bags with raked leaves! On Halloween night, dress up your porch a little extra with jack-o-lanterns, creepy characters, and a fire pit, and pass out candy to trick-or-treaters!
To learn more about Illusions Complete Home Solutions please visit their website at illusionscompletehomesolutions.com. From upscale interior design, to redesign, basement finishes, and whole house renovations, Stacy and her team cover them all!
Fall Porch Tips and Tricks:
- Comfort- cozy up your porch with rugs, spacious chairs, weather-resistant cushions, and outdoor throws and blankets.
- Foliage- add fall foliage such as mums, aster, grasses, and decorative cabbage to summer planters in addition to pumpkins, gourds, squash, and corn arranged on porch steps and railings.
- Light- incorporate lanterns, outdoor battery-operated candles, twinkly lights, and fire pits to fit your space.
- Reuse- get creative with fall pruning items such as dried flowers, trimmed tree branches and twigs, grasses, pinecones, and leaves.