DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

*Today’s post was made possible by CrossCountry Mortgage. All opinions are my own.

Just because it’s chilly out doesn’t mean that you have to forgo festive foliage at your front door! To prove that fact, I created a video tutorial for the team at CrossCountry Mortgage that demonstrates how to make your own DIY winter barrel garden. This project makes the most of clearance end-of-season plants, like pansies and flowering kale, and ultimately comes together to create a focal point for your porch that welcomes your visitors as they arrive for the holidays. Keep scrolling to find out how to make it, and click here to watch the project come to life in video format.

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your PorchDIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your PorchDIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

Start by purchasing a large barrel planter (the one you see pictured here measures 13 inches tall and 20 inches wide—this similar option is available at Walmart), and fill it with an all-purpose potting mix. Next, head to your local nursery to gather plants. I chose a mix of winter-hardy varieties that can stand up to cold temperatures, including a Green Giant Arborvitae, pansies, and flowering kale. I love the thought of transplanting the larger evergreen somewhere permanent on our lawn when it outgrows the barrel, which it inevitably will since these trees can grow as tall as 40 feet (or more!).

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your PorchDIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

Situate your barrel planter where you want it next to your front door (it may be too heavy to move once all the plants have been added to the dirt), and plant your tallest foliage at the back center of your pot—in this case, it was the arborvitae. Next, plant the medium-sized kale on either side of your evergreen tree, and finish with the pansies in front. This sequence will create a tallest-to-shortest arrangement that’s most appealing to the eye, and it will help show off your plants so each can be viewed in full.

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

Sweep away the loose dirt, and water as needed when the soil looks and feels dry. Just a quick note before you dive in head-first: while these plants can tolerate cold weather, keep in mind that they may be susceptible to frost, so make sure you protect them with some kind of winter plant cover fabric on extra chilly nights.

Isn’t the final container garden so charming? I really love the height and color that it adds to our porch, and the rustic barrel is a nice contrast to our other modern entry accents. Speaking of, the light fixtures came from Walmart, and the checkered door mat and wreath are both from Target. If you try this gardening project out this winter for your own home, please send photos so I can admire your take on the trend!

DIY Winter Barrel Garden For Your Porch

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November 2024 Home Mood Boards

Desert Dining Room Home Décor Mood Board

Did you hear? I recently started a new feature where I share all of the monthly mood board roundups that I’ve been posting over on my LTK account. I didn’t want anyone to miss out on this free creative content in case you’re not following along on LTK or Instagram, so I’ll be posting a roundup here on the blog at the end of each month to help inspire your home décor brainstorming. Don’t forget to click all the way through to view the mood board roundups on LTK (links are included in the paragraph explanations below) to see all 16 pieces in each collection since I couldn’t fit everything into each mood board graphic.

Desert Dining Room:

I’ve got not one but two dining room mood boards to share with you in today’s roundup! Reason being that Thanksgiving is this week, and I thought some of you might be in need of a dining room makeover. You can use this first earth-toned dining room mood board as shopping inspiration with the links list found here, or see if you can pull together items from your existing collection that match the style and colors of the pieces I collected so you can get the look for free! For those of you looking to invest, though, you can shop my dream of the perfect desert-inspired dining room here, including that beautiful handmade serving bowlcool curvy table lamp, and abstract art print.

Textural Sitting Room Home Décor Mood Board

Textural Sitting Room:

This textural sitting room mood board might just be my favorite in today’s roundup. It all started when I spotted that pinky purple washable area rug on Pinterest. The colors and boho pattern immediately spoke to me, and ultimately inspired every other selection in this imaginary room—from the woven base table lamps and leather armchairs, to the rich terracotta-colored pillow covers and boucle couch. It feels so inviting to me, and is the perfect match to my current preferred aesthetic. Shop this texture-packed living room here, and don’t forget that there are lots of other products linked in the full post that you don’t see in the mood board graphic above.

Old World Bathroom Home Décor Mood Board

Old World Bathroom:

I’m not planning a bathroom renovation any time soon, and I would personally go a little more “mid-century modern” than the “old world” bathroom design that you see above, but I thought it would be interesting to try curating a new style for me since this is all just for fun. I set out to pick accents that had a bit of age to them visually, like that irregular green glazed ceramic tile, the rustic wooden bath stool, and vintage-inspired flat printed rug. If this interior style speaks to you, click here for a full list of resources to consider for your bathroom makeover.

Jewel-Toned Bedroom Home Décor Mood Board

Jewel-Toned Bedroom:

Bedrooms are some of my absolute favorite spaces to design because they’re full of so much possibility. This jewel-toned bedroom mood board was first inspired by the organic, slightly abstract floral painting that you see above. I wanted to create an oasis full of calming-yet-saturated color based on that as a starting point, and I also wanted to collect textiles that you would want to curl up with day after day. The art print is, of course, my favorite part of this hypothetical room (shop the other abstract print here), but I also really love that patterned rug and the unexpected pink pendant light. I see the walls painted a dark navy blue, like this. Can you picture it, too? Shop the full space here.

Contemporary Dining Room Home Décor Mood Board

Contemporary Dining Room:

To finish off today’s mood board roundup, let’s talk about the second dining room design that I promised you! This one is more of a contemporary-leaning space, and features on-trend rounded furniture (like the dining table with exaggerated chunky legs), velvet curtain panels, heirloom-quality ceramics, and a soft color palette featuring my favorite shade of blush pink. Just a heads up that the full list of links found here includes smaller scale furniture options in case your dining room is tight on square footage, or if you’re trying to create a dining space out of a corner in your living room.

Let me know in the comments if you have a specific room or spot in your home that you’d like me to mood board next! I always make sure to prioritize follower requests first, so please do tell what’s on your list of future house projects.

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