50+ Fabulous outdoor Christmas decorations for a winter wonderland
Outdoor Christmas decorations help to make the outside of your home as ready for the holiday season as the inside, creating a festive atmosphere to welcome holiday guests into your home. Make your property stand out and be the best decorated on the block with our holiday-inspired ideas for outdoors. These incredible decorations will put you in the holiday spirit, whether you are looking for winter wreaths, lanterns, beautiful Christmas greenery, festive outdoor lighting displays, or Christmas porch displays or door decorations, our collection will help you make a holiday statement on your yard. Are Christmas lights and window decorations more your style? We have plenty of ideas for outdoor Christmas lights, including large displays, garlands, and LED lights of all colors. Our ideas for outdoor Christmas decorating ranges from traditional to modern, but all are easy to put together.
Picture Above: {Choose Monochromatic Christmas Decorations. Go all out this year and create a winter wonderland at your front door. Enlist the kids to cut snowflakes, and hang them from strings of lights. Spray faux trees white and plant them in galvanized buckets on each side of the door. For the final touch, spray-paint wire baskets white, hang, and fill each with sparkling silver orbs.}
To boost your holiday curb appeal even further, check out our past article on Front Porch Christmas Decorating Ideas that help you dress up your yard or front porch with pretty accents like reindeer and outdoor Christmas trees that last from fall through the holidays.
Use a Symmetrical Design. When in doubt, a symmetrical arrangement of Christmas decorations always looks polished. Spiral topiaries welcome guests onto the landing, where an evergreen arch accents existing architecture.
Add Fresh or Faux Flowers. If you live in a temperate climate, you might be able to make front door decorations with seasonal flower displays, such as poinsettias. To dress up the arrangement, try selections in an accent color — here, white adds a pop of bright against the brick. If your weather isn’t so mild, go for faux flowers that you can reuse year after year.
Customize Outdoor Arrangements: With a foundation of noble, Frasier and silver fir, you can build a custom pot. Try installing it early in the season and changing a few elements to give it a different feel. Add pheasant feathers, birch branches and gourds for an early start at Thanksgiving and then switch it out. Add winterberry and holly for a traditional statement to take you through Christmas, and then adorn it with white lights and silver glitter sprays for New Year’s.
Celebrate Traditional Decor. Bring your front door back to basics with red and silver ornaments nestled in fresh greenery. This look is sophisticated and works on a traditional or contemporary home.
Mix Shapes and Textures. If matching isn’t your style, funky forms are a wonderful way to add visual interest to a holiday front door. Here, distinctive topiaries play against a gathering of bright berries and the soft white of the wreath.
The front of the house sets the tone. Make your holiday entry festive with these wooden twig star candles.
Choose an Unusual Accent Color. Add an unexpected accent color to your Christmas decorations for a fresh front door. Here, ripe oranges and a tangerine-color ribbon make classic pine green pop.
Christmas Light Planter. Dress up bare branches in festive Christmas lights for a unique outdoor Christmas decorating idea. A shimmery gossamer ribbon reflects the glow cast by braiding together several strands of colored bulbs.
Add a Twist to Your Front Door Decor. Wreaths are a lovely addition to nearly every front entryway. But there are other items that can add seasonal interest to your door. Here, ice skates — tied with a bit of greenery and ribbon — dress up the traditional entry.
Candy Cane Holder. Take inspiration from classic Christmas candy and fill a white planter with decorative candy canes for a unique outdoor holiday decorating idea. Store-bought plastic canes and weather-treated ribbon mean this front door decor can last throughout the season.
Go for Traditional Decor. You can decorate a door for Christmas in a way that’s both classic and fresh with traditional accents. Hang a medium-size boxwood wreath with a bright red bow in the middle for pretty texture and style. Add symmetrical accents on either side of the door to complete the look, such as the shaped topiaries shown here.
Use a Single Color. There is a surprising array of diversity in the green color spectrum, from deep and rich to light and bright. These simple and traditional Christmas door decorations focus on color variations to add visual interest. A green ribbon adds luster to an evergreen wreath, while tiny lights brighten the garland around the front door.
Natural Container Holiday Show. A supersize cone from a sugar pine brings star power to this container display. Set the pinecone upright amid a bed of moss and spruce sprigs dotted with small pinecones. Top the pinecone with a faux-cardinal for eye-catching impact. A potted evergreen in a complementary green, such as this compact ‘Blue Star’ juniper, creates a striking combination of natural elements.
Transform Premade into One-of-a-Kind. It’s easy to customize an ordinary garland for extraordinary impact. Small holiday ornaments secured with hot glue coordinate with this red front door and add bright pops of color to a premade pinecone garland. Position the garland outside the door frame and secure at the top and sides with self-adhesive hooks or brick clips. Tall lanterns, adorned with small sprigs of berries, lead the way to Christmas celebrations.
Wreath with Skates. Hang a wreath that welcomes visitors with a snowy sport theme. Two white ice skates command attention from inside a foam wreath that’s wrapped with sleeves of an old sweater. A decorative bow and snowflakes add pizzazz.
Adorn Seasonal Items for Christmas Door Decorations. Lean a vintage wooden sled next to the front door and decorate it with a small garland, pinecones, ornaments, and a bright red bow. A bright red ribbon on top ties the look together.
Use Seasonal Colors for Christmas Door Decorations. Play up the traditional Christmas red-and-green color scheme with a modern spin. If you have a green door, accent it with an all-red wreath and place bright red flowers on the front porch. Don’t have a green door? Play around with other color schemes, such as white and blue (good for lighter doors) or silver and gold (good for darker doors).
Wintry Glass Candle Display. Turn inexpensive glass cylinders in various sizes into miniature Christmas luminaries. Place a cranberry-red candle inside each cylinder, filling the space between the glass and the candles with miniature red and silver ornaments. Set atop moss in a planter outdoors for instant holiday spirit.
Tiny Frosted Trees. Bottlebrush firs look like miniature frosted evergreens when arranged in a wintry bucket or planter. Votive candles add a calming, flickering glow to this outdoor Christmas decoration.
Tiny Tannenbaum Planter Holder. A wrought-iron planter holder features miniature dwarf spruce and other evergreens for a Christmas treelike display. Enhance the arrangement by adding glass ball ornaments and fresh-cut boughs of cedar and pine into the mix.
Holiday Bench Decor. Give your porch bench some holiday spirit with an arrangement of greenery, pinecones, gazing balls, and ornaments. Spray the arrangement with a light dusting of fake snow for extra winter flair.
Globed Christmas Lights. Spheres of grapevines wrapped in Christmas lights become shimmering orbs on a coat of freshly fallen snow. Place these magical globes in birdbaths, urns, or on stairsteps to cast an ethereal glow on your outdoor landscape. Tip: Use an outdoor-rated power cord: Check the tag on the cord to verify it’s safe to use outside.
Christmas Light ‘Burning Bush’. Light up your winter nights! Lay coiled Christmas light strands on top of soil, then insert branches and dried weeds to create a bushlike appearance. Tip: Are your Last year’s lights all tangled up? Instead of buying new ones and coiling them by hand, just use your tangled ones.
Twig Sculpture. White twigs rise from a mound of potted juniper, making a small container stand tall. Snowy-white Mitsumata branches lend a striking profile and contrast with a festive red pot. Insert shimmery red ornaments and natural pinecones into the greenery for a colorful and textural impact. A faux-bird resting on a branch injects a bit of whimsy. Tip: Make it your own. Choose redtwig dogwood, birch, or spray-painted twigs to create this display. Besides white, twigs painted silver or gold will shimmer in the winter light.
Inviting Holiday Mailbox. Prepare a merry welcome at the curb — a pretty swag of pine tied on with wire adds a flourish to your mailbox. Embellish it with red accents and pretty pinecones. The first snow will only enhance the look.
Wintry Windowsills. Turn your dormant window planters into decoration space by planting hardy shrubs until spring hits. Simple wire stars and white lights add festive glow to this outdoor Christmas decoration.
Snow Globe Planter. A mix of bistro and mini lights brightens up any winter arrangement on your front porch. Here, we’ve secured some strands to a trellis with zip ties; more lights are tucked into evergreen boughs that cradle magnolia leaves.
Fruit-Filled Birdbath. Once the birds have flown south, take advantage of your empty birdbath for this dazzling holiday decoration. Frozen sections of kumquat, cranberries, pepperberries, and polished stones provide a striking contrast to the bright white snow.
Glowing Holiday Globes. Glowing frosted globes (available in large and small sizes from home-improvement stores) take the edge off a chilly winter twilight. Scatter the spheres around your yard to create an ethereal winter landscape, or group them in a birdbath or other outdoor winter container for maximum impact. Tip: Plug the outdoor-rated power cord into a ground fault interrupter (GFI) outlet or a circuit with a GFI outlet on it.
Decorate Front Yard Trees and Shrubs. Instead of simply accenting your front door, try integrating the rest of the front yard into your design. Here, simple lit orbs add unexpected brilliance to the large tree. The lights also make the house as attractive by night as it is by day.
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