White Christmas Wreath, Doormat and Outdoor Planter Arrangements

Christmas Outdoor Planter: see how to create a Christmas arrangement for your front door in two different styles and a matching snowflake doormat.

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• Linear Outdoor Christmas Arrangement
• DIY Snowflake Doormat
• Galvanized Pail Arrangement
• More Inspiration

I loved my fall outdoor linear planter so much that I decided to do another version of it for Christmas. It came out great, and I love that it's something a little different from the standard Christmas urn with greens, bobbles and ribbon. My love of white continues with the Christmas decor, and I really love how the white pops against all the Christmas greens.

Linear Outdoor Christmas Arrangement

Materials:

• large square galvanized tub
• greens
• birch poles
• hawthorn berries
• cedar
• pinecones spray painted white
• soil in the container

How To

To make this outdoor Christmas arrangement, I started with the fall planter, and removed everything but the birch poles.

I repositioned them as the second row, and tucked a nice row of fir as the back and tallest row. Fir is really one of my favs, since we always had a real fir tree growing up. When I think Christmas tree, I just think fir, maybe that's because we always had a fresh fir tree when I was a little girl. It was a great choice here for the back row, since it has so much structure.

Next were the line of birch poles I cut for the fall planter -must say I'm loving all the birch this year, and using more of it inside for my Winter Woodland Christmas theme this year. 😉

After the birch I added a row of these black berries, European buckthorn -according to my google research. 😉 They have thorns so be careful, (she said from experience).

After that I added a row of cedar, just common Ontario cedar, not the fancy B.C. kind. Sometimes Ontario cedar is more yellow, but I thought this looked pretty good, and the contrast is also good for this linear arrangement.

My final row is some spray painted pine cones. I liked the way it related to the pine cone wreath I made here.

I have to admit that I fiddled with this arrangement and may or may not have even sent some pics to my florist sister for some advice. In the end the key was trying to make the lines as full as possible.

Some other suggestions for rows if you're considering making a linear arrangement like this are moss, the really large pine cones, other coloured berries, painted twigs, large cinnamon sticks like I used in my fall version, and of course other Christmas greens -magnolia leaves would look great.

DIY Snowflake Doormat

Of course I also needed a new doormat, and yet again the perfect one I had pictured in my mind didn't seem to exist in real life, ever have that problem? So, what's a DIY-ier to do but make it herself.

Materials:

• Plain Doormat
• Snowflake image
• exacto knife
• white craft paint

How To

This project started with a plain coir mat. I used the same method I used here to stencil the fall leaf doormat.

The snowflake images were found on the web.  First I printed them out, and cut out the middle with an exacto knife to create a stencil.

Then I used craft paint to create a random pattern.

I really like how it turned out, and it should work all through the winter, not just for Christmas, which is always good. It helped tie together the white of the planters, and the wreath, with the snowflake Christmas lights we have along the roof.

Galvanized Pail Arrangement

I added one final outdoor Christmas arrangement right beside the door. Again I used an old galvanized pail, to match the large square one. This arrangement was really simple. The three shortish birch poles, some more buckthorn berries, some pine cuttings, and more white pinecones help tie this arrangement to the other one. I really liked how it used the pretty much the same materials, but in a really different way from the linear arrangement.

I hope my front door gives you a few new ideas. I'm just hoping that my use of snowflakes doesn't bring any snow yet. 😉

With pretty white outdoor Christmas decor, life really is a party.

More Inspiration

You might also like our Christmas Front Porch here.

Also check out our Outdoor Decorating Ideas for the Front Porch here.

You might also enjoy our Front Porch Decorating Ideas for Christmas here.