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Ideas for Front Porch Designs and More


Do you love porches as much as the two of us do? Are you looking for some awesome front porch designs and front porch ideas?

Whether you are dreaming of a country style porch, a sophisticated contemporary style or you only have a small space for a charming portico, we welcome you here to design, plan, and decorate your porch.

Beautiful Landscaping Around This Porch

Front porch ideas - how about landscaping with roc

Landscaping around your porch with rocks

Which is prettier? The porch or the landscaping?



Welcome to Our Porch Designs Center

Our goal is to help you visualize what a new front porch can do for your home.

The Front Porch Designs Illustrator
front porch illustration basic ranch
From this
basic ranch with new conceptual front porch
To this

Using a basic style ranch home, our Front Porch Illustrator lets you see how this home's appearance changes with 16 porch variations - ranging from a very small portico to larger porches.

basic ranch with new conceptual front porch Would you rather see the porches shown on a two-story home? No problem.

Check out our Two-Story Home Illustrator. You will get landscaping and walkway ideas, too.





Relax with Our Porches Video





Porch Inspiration

Small portico plans
Small Porch Plans


"I want to dress up our home with a small porch this year. These plans will make it possible!"
Front Porch Ideas Generator
Front Porch
Ideas Generator

shows you amazing transformations of 10 actual homes - befores and afters showing the impact of a front porch."
Shop our porch books
Porch books
make wonderful gifts for porch lovers. How about browsing our collection?






Screened porch plans
Screened Porch Plans


"With spring approaching, we are planning to build a screened porch."
Outdoor curtains
Wispy Outdoor Curtains


"We love the extra privacy and charm that the curtains add to our front porch."
Shed design plans for small cabins, storage sheds and bunk houses
Build a Shed or Small Cabin with a Porch!

Need extra storage space? Or want a small hideaway?





Spice Up Your Porch with Flowers




Front Yard Landscaping Ideas




Our site is a labor of love

As Dave and I have looked at homes over the years and strolled through neighborhoods, we have always been drawn to charming front porches. We've lived in homes with big porches, small porches and no porch (sad!).

We once purchased a home just because it had a screened porch. And that was a terrific decision.

Dave and I use our passion to bring you the best porch decorating and design ideas for your front porch.

We hope that our front porch designs, decorating and entertaining ideas will help you whether you have a front porch, side porch, or a great back porch!




You will find many front porch designs and porch pictures throughout our site.

Our front porch pictures will help you visualize and plan your projects.
Thinking of building or renovating a porch? From stone columns to renovating to building a new porch from scratch we have photo gallery pictorials to show you how it is done.



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