I’ve been so excited for today’s post! A great group of blogger friends have joined together to show you a tour of our outdoor spaces and gardens! Get ready for some serious eye candy!
Our front porch is one of my favorite features of our home. Between the swing, rocking chairs, arts and crafts style, and fans, it’s the epitome of southern style to me. The last time you saw a tour of our front porch on the blog was three years ago! Can you believe that? Time for an update! Here’s how it’s looking today! Oh, and don’t judge the dirt… the pressure washers are coming next week!
Jeremy and his dad hung this swing for me on an angle, which was no small feat. My grandparents had their porch swing angled like this and I always loved it. Now I get to sit on this swing with my little loves as they chat away about the birds and squirrels, play I Spy, and ask me loads of questions. 😉
The other side of the porch is home to our rocking chairs. They were a housewarming gift from Jeremy’s parents when we bought our first home and we love them! We painted them white when we moved into this home and they fit in perfectly here!
After several failed attempts at keeping flowers alive next to the front door, I finally found a flower that loves our shady porch–begonias! I happened to have a bunch of rewards dollars from our local nursery, so was able to get almost half off these huge, gorgeous begonias!
My old, plastic flower pots were all faded, so I replaced them this year with these beverage tins that I found on clearance at Target. I love the look and that they didn’t break the bank! I also picked up a new doormat at Target to brighten things up.
My previous wreath had seen better days and was really faded. Sigh… I really loved that one! I gathered some wreath inspiration on Etsy and came up with this new wreath. I actually think I like it even better than my old one!
We are still loving the coral color of the door that was here when we moved in! For those of you that have asked about the door color, a friend recently color matched a picture of our door and found that it is almost an exact match to Behr’s Fire Island. Thanks, Sarom!
I also wanted to show you some of our favorite flowers from around our yard! These balloon flowers in our front flower bed are amazing! They’re perennials, which is a huge plus in my mind, and have done great every year!
Of course, you know that my all time favorite thing in our yard is our hydrangeas! I just can’t get enough of them! They did awesome this year after two bad years, so I was extra giddy over them!
We recently ripped out an entire line of dead and overgrown bushes on the side of the house and replaced them with a row of gardenias. My grandparents had a row of gardenias at our house when I was really little and I still remember my Grandma and I picking them and enjoying their fragrance together! When Jeremy and I were deciding what to put into our side flower bed, the nostalgia took over and I just had to get that amazing fragrance back in my life! 😉 They bloomed like crazy this year, which was an unexpected treat considering we just planted them a couple months ago!
Last but not least, our knock out roses in the back yard have done better and better each year. When we first moved in, they were scraggly and we thought for sure they were goners, but they have proven us wrong! If you ever need a hearty plant, go get a knock out rose! We had an amazing one at our old house, too, that grew like crazy!
Hope you enjoyed this little tour of our porch and garden! Be sure to hop around to the other blogs and check out their amazing yards! I’ve been getting ideas from their posts all week!
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I love the color of your front door! It is so warm and welcoming. It was fun touring with you this week!
Wow, this is such a calming space! I could imagine myself swinging or rocking at any given hour of the day. So beautiful!!
Your front porch tour is so pretty, Samantha! I love the coral paint color on your door. It’s my favorite color along with teal! I would love to have a covered porch like yours to hang a swing.
Your porch has charm for days!!! Love the coral door color and accents. Your porch swing is fabulous and so unique to hang it at an angle – great idea!
i love a porch swing! It’s my favorite thing to relax on. Wish we had one now!
Thanks so much, Amy!
Such a pretty front porch Samantha! The begonias by your door in those beverage tins look great. I really love your porch swing, what a cozy spot! I wish we could have gardenias here up north year round. I just love how they smell.
Thanks so much, Tara! Loved participating in this blog hop! So much inspiration!
Your front porch is adorable! i love all the pops of coral in the space. it’s such a good idea to hang your swing at an angle – if I ever have a house with a front porch, I’m totally going to do that, too!
Thanks, Jenny! I totally stole the idea from my grandparents! 🙂
Oh, I love your front porch! The color of your front door is amazing. And what a sweet gift those rocking chairs were!
Thanks so much, Bre!!
Your porch is beautiful. I love the transom over the front door, and the color of your front door! Craftsman style homes are my absolute favorite!
Thanks so much! Me, too! I was sold on this house from the first listing picture of the outside! Craftsman style certainly has a strong pull! 🙂
Everything looks so pretty and restful. I think I could spend hours on a porch swing like yours.
Thanks, Vanessa!!
samantha
I am so excited to BE WITH YOU ON THIS TOO, you have such a beautiful and simple style, which I am very much the same, I love simple. tHE PORCH LOOKS GREAT AD THE COLORS ARE THE PERFECT BALANCE OF STYLE AND COLOR.
mARIA
Thanks so much, Maria! I was literally just pinning your tour! So gorgeous!
Hi Samantha,
So enjoyed the tour of your pretty and inviting porch! Great pics of the flowers! LOVE BEAUTIFUL flowers myself! Really a fun tour this whole week!
Kim
Thanks so much, Kim!
I LOVE everything on your porch…the swing, the chairs, the wreath and those begonias!! Just beautiful!!
Thanks, Friend!!! Can’t wait to see yours!
I love the pretty color of your front porch! It goes well with your flowers and pillows!
Thanks so much!
Your yard is so pretty! I love the swing and rockers, what a fun place to enjoy a drink! ANd so clever to use beverage buckets as planters!
Your porch is so picturesque – I love the pops of coral-y orange! And your flowers look beautiful, especially your beautiful blue hydrangeas! Ours had blue flowers the first year it bloomed, but they’ve since turned pink.
I love your porch! So beautiful. I am determined to have a porch in my next home, but until then at least I can enjoy other people’s beautiful porches 🙂
Very pretty! Your front porch looks like the perfect place to sit and relax! Thank you for sharing at Merry Monday!
Thanks!!!
Samatha,
your front porch is absolutely beautiful!!!! I use coral and teal a lot in our home and love those colors. I’ll try and get my husband to paint our front door this fall when it cools down a little bit. You have done a beautiful job in your yard. it really takes work to have a pretty yard; we use to do all our work in our yard but age crept us on us and it’s hard to get on those knees!!!!!! Sorry my shift key is not capitalizing. Not sure what is going on, I apologize. Keep those emails coming. Love your site.
Love it all! Interesting that yesterday someone was asking for opinions about painting her door a pretty orange like yours and someone commented “go ahead if your not planning to sell your house” and then I read that you bought your house with an orange door! And I can see why! Where did you get that amazing swing?