Vintage Outdoor Christmas Decorating Ideas

20 Chic Outdoor Christmas Decorations

Outdoor Christmas decorations are often overdone and cheesy. If you're looking for thoughtful pieces that make your front door, porch, yard and more feel chic instead of tacky, this inspirational list is for you.

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Three-Piece Lighted Decorative Christmas Package Set

These pre-lit gifts are a posh addition to your porch display. The three-piece set includes large, medium and small packages. Place them on your porch and they'll glisten in the snow.

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Solar Garden or Path Christmas Lights

Light up your front door or landscape with solar-powered Christmas lights. This one features a metal stake decorated with faux berries, pine boughs, bright poinsettia flowers, LED balls and copper string lights.

Next, check out more outdoor Christmas decoration ideas that will put you into the holiday spirit.

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3d rendering. christmas decorated porch with little trees and lanterns. 2M media/Shutterstock

Flanked Pathway with Topiaries and Lanterns

Keep your outdoor Christmas decorations classy by flanking your pathway with lighted topiaries in soft, white pots. Lead the eye up to the front door with a matching garland and wreath. We also love the warm addition of white lanterns.

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Home porche decorated with snow covered branches of a Christmas tree. Christmas decor, snowy mood, winter still life. Melana Lettering/Shutterstock

All White Everything

Embrace the snowy scene with more white! If you live in a warmer climate, the white decor will make for a festive, chic pop on your porch. Adding a touch of pale pink is right on trend.

We love a stylish idea like this, but sometimes it's also fun to chuckle at some Christmas decorating fails like these.

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Christmas decorations with natural details: branches with garland lights and christmas balls. Eco decor in interior concept. Creative christmas tree. Lysikova Irina/Shutterstock

Eco Chic Arch

One thing that can make outdoor Christmas decor tacky is too much plastic. That's why we like this handsome, natural front door arch. It's made with a bundle of branches, white, gold and silver ornaments and fairy lights.

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Winter composition with Christmas wreath, glass decoration, garland, fir tree, wooden star on vintage wooden child chair on snow, natural background, outdoor and space, scene in snow garden Galina Grebenyuk/Shutterstock

Snow Garden

Just because it's winter doesn't mean you can't add decor to your garden. Grab an old wooden chair and spruce it up alongside some shrubbery. Adorn the chair with a Christmas wreath, a tray holding silver ornaments and warm fairy lights. Or create a bundle of tiny pine branches, wrap them with twine, gather some pine cones and place them in a silver jar on the tray.

If you're not one for as many frills, check out our list of minimalist holiday decorating ideas.

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Holiday Porch Decorations tcarlson13/Shutterstock

Vintage Scene

Vintage decor is effortlessly stylish, so incorporate it into outdoor Christmas decorations. This vintage Christmas tree sign perched atop a wooden crate filled with pine branches and old ice skates is a quaint porch decoration we can get behind.

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toy soldier christmas decoration on front porch with topiearies Michelle Marsan/Shutterstock

Toy Soldiers

Toy soldiers are holiday classics and they look right at home near these beautiful topiaries. We also love the way the garland is draped above the door.

Running out of time? Here are 15 last-minute holiday decorating ideas.

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Decorated house facade with presents from Santa Claus before Christmas. Gift boxes are lying on the porch in New Year Eve. 4 PM production/Shutterstock

Double Christmas Garland

Dress up the entrance of your home with a gorgeous garland display. Drape a thinner garland over your front door, then add a thicker, larger one from the roof boards.

Looking for some new tree decorating ideas? Check out the best Christmas tree decorations for 2020.

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Christmas Door with Ice Skates Mary Terriberry/Shutterstock

Front Door with Ice Skates

Your front door holiday decor says a lot about who's behind it. Welcome guests to your home with a front door swag made of pine boughs and ice skates. Be sure to cover the blades with tape or nice-looking skate guards so the blades don't scratch your door — or your guests.

Christmas can be expensive, but this idea is free if you own a pair of skates!

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A close-up of the left side of a window planter box decorated for Christmas, set against a bright blue brick building. Justin Rumao/Shutterstock

Decorated Window Planter Box

Add planter box embellishment to your outdoor Christmas decor. Tuck in pine boughs, dried magnolia leaves and coordinating ornaments for a festive display.

Originally Published: December 07, 2020

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