3 Wreath Christmas Tradition On A 1930s Front Door

This is a picture of my parents’ 1930s front door and how my mother decorated it for their first Christmas in their newly built Raeside-Dame home in Coastal Maine over 30 years ago. You may see and learn more about this family home and all its history here in our Coastal Maine Home Tour.

It was right then and there that I decided to start my own tradition of adding three wreaths to this 1930s front door every holiday season in memory of the first.

This is our fifth Christmas season with the home, and I have tried various wreaths. But I keep returning to the authentic Maine evergreens with classic red bows.

Frost Farms Christmas Wreaths

This year, I’m delighted to partner with my friends at Frost Farms, located on Mount Desert Island in Bar Harbor, Maine, to continue this year’s three-wreath 1930s front-door holiday tradition.

And Ella’s even dressed up for the occasion…

Frost Farms‘ traditional Maine-made wreaths are simply the perfect finishing touch for the holiday season. They feature natural pine cones, faux red berries, and a weather-resistant velvet bow. These hand-crafted wreaths are trimmed with fresh balsam fir brush and reindeer moss.

Each wreath is carefully packaged in a moisture-protectant bag with decorative tissue paper and shipped via UPS in a custom-fit box.

Frost Farms offers six varieties of holiday wreaths, including their “Traditional Maine Wreaths,” which I am showcasing on our 1930s front door today. So, if you are looking to bring a little bit of Maine spirit to your home this holiday season, check out Frost Farms’ fresh Maine wreaths!

See how the team at Frost Farms makes these gorgeous hand-made Maine wreaths:

Since we aren’t in Maine full time, Frost Farms happily scheduled our wreath delivery to accommodate our arrival for Thanksgiving weekend, which is when I like to hang our three Christmas wreaths on our 1930s front door.

It’s also the weekend we arrive to tackle the annual fall yard clean-up. This weekend, we were welcomed by the neighborhood strolling turkeys, and boy, they had been grown since the last time we saw them back in the spring.

1930s Front Door

Let’s chat a bit about this 1930s front door. There are two doors in this home’s front door frame. The first is a standard door that opens into the house. And on the face of that door is this old 1930s front door. Customary to Early American Homes built back in this era.

They were also called storm doors to homes that resided on the coast. They were considered barrier doors during consequential New England storms. This 1930s front door can be removed in the summertime. However, we choose to leave ours on for simply the character it provides. This front door does not serve as a functioning entryway into the home, although it easily could.

This 1930s front door has wrought iron latches and braces that were originally installed over 30 years ago. A uniquely vintage lantern lights the way over this front door’s entryway.

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Storm windows work similarly as this 1930s front door does on our home, too. Although we definitely remove the storm windows in the spring and put them back on in the fall to save on heating costs and for the layering of window protection, they provide against falling trees, debris, and the like during the winter months.

Maine Christmas Wreaths

Over the past four years, this front-door Christmas wreath tradition has seen many iterations. Therefore, I knew I wanted to return to a traditional Maine wreath with a classic red bow this year. It seems to be my favorite contrasting look with the Essex Green front door and the rustic cedar shake siding.

You may also enjoy these other 1930s front-door Christmas wreath looks:

• 3 Christmas Wreaths at the Front Door
• A Front Door Christmas Wreath Tradition
• Christmas Front Door Tradition 2021
• A Vintage Christmas Haul and 3 Holiday Wreaths

I often get asked, “Why three wreaths?”

That’s when I love chatting about the old photo I found and how my mother decorated this old front door for the first time.

Maine State Flag

We proudly fly our Maine flag, representing this great “Pine Tree State,” next to our three-wreath 1930s front door tradition, which to us is just quintessential Maine living.

And now we are ready and looking forward to a beautiful blanket of snow.

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We also saw a bit of a nice sea surge while we were back in Maine for Thanksgiving weekend, which I thought you may enjoy.