Spring door decor – elevate your front door in time for spring with these 9 seasonal ideas

With spring just around the corner, it's the perfect time to start thinking about how to elevate your home to welcome the new season after the long winter months.

While turning your attention to the inside of your home offers plenty of creative spring decor ideas, your front door also provides a perfect place to get creative with seasonal decor, too. Guaranteed to boost curb appeal and set a welcoming entrance to your home to greet guests, a seasonal front door display is a wonderful way to celebrate spring.

From elevating your spring front porch to adorning a seasonal wreath to your front door, we've rounded up our favorite spring door decor ideas below to serve you with some stylish yet practical inspiration.

1. Add brightness with potted plants

Perhaps the simplest yet most effective way to decorate your front door this spring is to embrace beautiful spring planter ideas. From classic whites and greens to more colorful options, potted flowers are a wonderful way to celebrate springtime, while creating a welcoming entrance to your home.

'Spring is a season of rejuvenation and brightness, making it an ideal time to revitalize your front door and boost your home's curb appeal,' says Tiffany Matthews, Greensboro-based founder and lead designer at Motif Homes. 'Surround your door with vibrant spring flowers for pots. Nothing says goodbye to winter like the popular spring blooms ranunculus, hydrangea, and geraniums to infuse your entrance with color and vitality.'

Designer Sarah Latham of Latham Interiors also recommends displaying flowers around your front door for spring, adding: 'Spring is the season of growth, and what better way to decorate your front door than with some of the fresh flowers provided by your local nursery in a decorative pot near the front door.'

When it comes to choosing the best plant pots, designer Miranda Cullen of Inside Stories recommends 'clay or plaster planters which have a subtle texture and very natural color and will perfectly complement your greenery.'

2. Paint your front door a colorful hue

'Give new life to your front door this spring by adding a splash of color,' suggests Helen Shaw, color expert from Benjamin Moore. 'Not only will this create an interesting welcome for guests but it also allows you to add personality to the outside of your house that matches your interior design.'

'When it comes to choosing a front door color, there has been a significant increase in the popularity of bold and bright colors such as sunshine yellow or bold ocean blue for their statement-making appeal,' Helen continues.

Here, Benjamin Moore's Split Pea makes for statement front door color ideas, contrasting wonderfully with the neutral Benjamin Moore Super White on the exterior and Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter on the window casing.

'However, if you can't quite face an invigorating bright on your front door, opt for a pastel instead,' adds Helen. 'These hues are both sophisticated yet playful, and if you choose a soft green or blue, it will complement the surrounding natural environment rather than distract from it.'

3. Add a welcoming doormat

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to elevate your front door this spring, why not add a welcoming doormat?

'Greet visitors with a charming decorative doormat,' says Tiffany Matthews. 'Not only does a stylish doormat serve a functional purpose, but it also adds a personal touch to your doorstep.'

Below, we've rounded up some of our favorite doormats for you to shop this spring.

4. Introduce animal-friendly door decoration

Adding a wreath to your front porch ideas is a great way to bring some seasonal cheer to your door – and dust away the cobwebs of winter.

A natural, sustainable vibe – with minimal plastic and packaging – is hot on the agenda for many of us. Although most seasonal foliage is off limits for pets or farmyard animals – narcissus, foxglove, lily of the valley, tulips, crocuses, and hyacinth, for starters.

Instead, keep it simple with edible apples, or pears. You can also add a spring touch with the freesia, gerberas, wax flowers, and pittosporum, which are not toxic to animals.

5. Decorate with symmetrical wreaths on the front door

Turn up the style by opting for a dual wreath for a symmetrical appearance. Symmetry is a technique used by interior designers to create a space that looks incredibly tidy and smart – and therefore calming and relaxing. Using architectural elements such as front doors is a good place to start, so give a front door a burst of color and intrigue with a springtime wreath that is blooming with fresh foliage.

‘We are always drawn to handmade and natural spring decor ideas. There is nothing more satisfying than bringing in foraged moss, spring flowers and bare branches from the backyard,' says Katie Smyth of floral design studio Worm.

6. Plant a living wall

While not necessarily door decor, an abundant living wall will make a beautiful addition to the exterior of your home come spring.

Living wall ideas are springing up over vertical surfaces everywhere, to keep buildings cool, improve air quality, reduce noise, and attract wildlife. Colorful, verdant, and providing aesthetic and ecological benefits, they make use of vertical surfaces for planting. They are a particularly useful front porch idea where space may be limited but are worthy as an impactful design feature in their own right.

To create these vertical garden ideas, plants are rooted into a structure which is then attached to an exterior or freestanding wall. Systems can range from something as simple as plant pots hung on a vertical wall, to highly sophisticated modular, hydroponic panels, where all the water and nutrient requirements of the plants are precision delivered and monitored electronically.

7. Update any original features

Spring is the optimum time for refreshing the condition of your front door. If you live in a period property and your current door is the original, it’s always worth trying to preserve it for as long as possible. Repair, re-glaze, and re-paint before considering replacing it.

But if your door is more recent and not to your taste, there are several options to choose from, from modern designs and bespoke joinery to reproductions and reclaimed originals.

8. Introduce symmetrical planters

Spring is an ideal time to introduce a symmetrical pair of evergreen planters to your spring decor ideas, as demonstrated in this space by Margaret Ash Design.

Clipped evergreens are perfect for creating a punctuation point in your planting scheme, for introducing low shapes to edge paths, and for adding definition to containers. Choose lollipop bay trees, smart box balls, and pompom conifers to add strong shapes that help to define spaces. Topiary is also low-maintenance and looks good all year round.

‘I use topiary and evergreen plants and hedges as the backbone to my designs,’ says garden designer Richard Miers, whose work is known for using symmetry to create a sense of balance and proportion. ‘Using sculpted evergreens is a timelessly elegant way to provide focal points, frame key views and provide interest in spring.'

9. Hang a wreath for Easter

In preparation for your Easter decor ideas, bring the color and fragrance of spring to your front door with the prettiest Easter wreath ideas made from flowers, sprigs, and blossoms. While a spring wreath may be more understated, a wreath specifically for Easter is a great opportunity to incorporate lots of uplifting colors.

Have fun playing about with scale and color but keep the overall effect simple and allow the natural beauty of the flowers to shine through. And what's better than one Easter or spring wreath? Two! Remember you can hang a wreath on the inside of your door, too.

Which of these creative spring door decor ideas will you try this year? Whether you go subtle with a simple wreath or give your front door a complete refresh by embracing the latest paint trends, there are many ways to uplift your door in keeping with the season.