7 Covered Porch Fall Decor Ideas Your Home Will Love

A covered porch offers the ultimate outdoor experience for enjoying fall’s beauty.

With the perfect balance of natural light and cozy shelter, it creates a welcoming space for the season’s decor.

Whether you have open porches or more enclosed designs, adding fall touches to a covered porch transforms it into a warm and inviting retreat.

Welcome to Our Covered Porch in Vermont

As the crisp Vermont air begins to cool and the vibrant colors of fall paint the landscape, there’s no better time to transform a covered porch into a warm, inviting space that celebrates this season.

From cozy throw pillows to outdoor rugs that anchor your outdoor spaces, these porch ideas will create the perfect place for spending time with loved ones.

The front door, adorned with seasonal wreaths, welcomes guests to a porch pantry stocked with autumn essentials, making your porch the ultimate haven for fall.

We love our covered porch in Vermont, especially during the fall, because it offers a front-row seat to the magnificent Green Mountain views. The changing colors and crisp air make it the perfect place to enjoy the season’s beauty.

You may see more of these mountain views in Our Year-Round Vermont Mountain Views post.

This outdoor space is a favorite, and you can learn more about its patio design in this post, Backyard Living Patio Spaces: From Design to Reality.

7 Fall Front Covered Porch Key Decorating Ideas

1. Choose a Color Palette

To get started, I like to choose a color palette. This year, I chose purple and orange.

These colors tend to stand out amidst all the other colors that show off around us in the fall. I love the pop of orange, contrasted with the dark red balau wood of our covered porch, and the purple color pairs so well with my next favorite color, blue.

I then like visiting our local nursery and collecting flowers and pumpkins in this color scheme.

Check out more of this year’s fun visit to our local nursery in this 29 Funny Scarecrow Ideas, It’s Fall in Vermont post.

And boy, are the pumpkins expensive this year! Are they where you are, too?

Our neighbor usually grows a pumpkin patch that provides pumpkins to our entire neighborhood, which was always a fun fall outdoor experience.

But this year, he went with wildflowers, and I’m really missing all those free pumpkins…

See more in this Vermont Foliage Home Tour post.

2. Add All the Fall Covered Porch Flowers

Sunflowers are happy flowers. Whether you grow or pick them up at your local supermarket, they add all autumn’s happy, colorful spirits. The more the merrier!

You may also enjoy this Refreshing Weekend Junket Home to Vermont post with the year’s early sunflowers.

A mixed bouquet of fall flowers in a simple mason jar.

This bouquet was a gift from the same neighbor’s flower garden that used to be a pumpkin patch.

You may also enjoy this Vermont Fall Foliage Home Tour.

Find front porch fall entertaining ideas in this Fall & Halloween DIY Grazing Table with MacKenzie-Childs post.

Hydrangeas aren’t only beautiful in the summer. Our limelight hydrangeas fade into gorgeous pink colors, and I love making bouquets and wreaths out of them in the fall with my little buddy, Ella.

3. Apples

It’s a great idea to go apple picking or pick up a bushel of your favorite apples at your local farmer’s market.

My favorite apples are Macintosh. What are yours?

A bowl filled with apples on your covered patio is inviting and, again, a key element to the spirit of autumn. You can also add a bowl of apples to a coffee bar, side table, or dining table.

A wooden bowl or basket is more durable for the outdoors. For today, I couldn’t resist using this vintage green stoneware bowl that I found on Etsy.

Find more inspiration with apples in these posts:

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4. Cornstalks

Cornstalks add enormous coziness and Autumn spirit to any open porches.

I picked up five bundles of cornstalks at our local nursery for just $7.95 each and easily wired them onto our front porch beams.

They look fabulous from both the road and from our sitting view. As we get closer to Halloween, I may add one or two black crows.

In my fall front porch decor this year, I’m also incorporating these Witches’ Altar Brooms with black velvet ribbon tied into bows.

If you are looking for something to warm up this season, check out this Wood Pellet Outdoor Heater: Why Big Timber Stove post!

5. Add Curbside Appeal with Autumn Flower Containers

Last year, I found a couple of plastic urns; you may see more in the post, How to Easily Upcycle Plastic Urns. They work perfectly on our front porch with the purple Asters I picked up at our local nursery earlier.

I tend to keep our Autumn containers pretty simple, displaying one fall plant. It’s lower maintenance for me, as we can get high winds and harsh weather here living in the mountains of Vermont. But so many fancy and fabulous fall planters are still to be found.

6. Tabletop Covered Porch Fire Pit

The cool, crisp autumn air attracts us to our cozy fireplaces, stoves, and outdoor fire pits.

But a covered front porch can be a dangerous place for a fire. It can trap the fire’s smoke, fumes, and more. I have always dreamed of having a gas fire pit coffee table on our porch. Something we could sit around on a cold, misty, or rainy afternoon. But it wasn’t meant to be.

UNTIL…

This past summer, I attended the Laudholm Nature Craft Fair with a girlfriend and discovered this stone fire rock made by Timberstone.

This is a fantastic tabletop solution to add fire to your covered front porch space.

The rock’s bottom does not heat up, allowing it to sit on almost any surface. There is an open hole in the rock where you add one Tree Free Fire container, giving you up to 4 hours of burning time.

Oh, and we got new blue and white cushion covers for the new green wicker set. See the before in the post, How To Create An Inviting Front Porch with Wicker Furniture.

And guess what? If you don’t want or can’t find a fire rock like this one, you can also use the Tree Free Fire container as a stand-alone fire. They’d also be great for an evening on the beach in the summertime.

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I light ours every time we are on our covered porch now. I just love it!!

7. Spirit of Autumn Covered Porch Table Setting

I’ve talked about our porch table here on the blog often. It’s an old vintage wallpaper table that I picked up while out Thrifting with the Gals. You may see more in the posts:

Having a porch table and eating outdoors is a favorite of ours. And I mean breakfast, lunch, and dinner… Here’s a simple early autumn table setting that I put together to welcome you to our front porch dining area today.

All vintage-inspired!

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Incorporating these covered porch design ideas is a great way to make your porch a welcoming retreat this fall. A cozy seating area with a porch swing invites relaxation, while a stylish new doormat sets the tone for your entryway.

Adding a garden stool for extra functionality and charm completes the look, making your front porch the perfect place to enjoy the season. As you bring these elements together, you’ll see how front porches can transform into the heart of your home’s outdoor space.

Thanks for joining me on our favorite fall covered porch today!

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Next up on today’s “Best Fall Home Tour” is Emily from LeCultivateur. Emily has beautiful photography, and you’ll be inspired by her fall home tour.

Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tours

I am joining some of my blogging friends this week for the Bloggers’ Best Fall Home Tours. Thirty talented and creative women will open their homes up for you to tour all week. You can visit each fall home tour by clicking the links below.

Monday’s Tours

The Tattered Pew // StoneGable // My Wee Abode

She Gave It a Go // Cottage In the Mitten // Simply2Moms

Tuesday’s Tours

Midwest Life and Style // Willow Bloom Home Blog // Bricks n’ Blooms

Cottage On Bunker Hill // Peacock Ridge Farm // Open Doors Open Hearts

Wednesday’s Tours

White Lilac Farmhouse // The Ponds Farmhouse // Eleanor Rose Home

Amy Sadler Designs // Shiplap and Shells // White Arrows Home

Thursday’s Tours

My Thrift Store Addiction // County Road 407 // Thistle Key Lane

Cloches and Lavender // My Family Thyme // tatertots & jello

Friday’s Tours

Le Cultivateur // Southern Home and Hospitality // DIY Beautify

WM Design House // A Life Unfolding // Dabbling and Decorating