<p>To all you bungalow owners and other homeowners who have an old-style [traditional] front porch; what do you store there? How have you decorated or enhanced your sitting porch? Does anyone even have a traditional front porch anymore?</p>
<p>comfortable chairs, an old fashioned swing, potted/hanging plants, a flag, a lap blanket, a table with reading lamp?</p>
<p>Porch swing. Flowers (fuschias in hanging baskets.)</p>
<p>Im actually thinking of getting ours glassed in- we don’t have a front entryway & with a southern exposure it could be a year round green house.</p>
<p>Some times I have wicker chairs and a table ( along with annuals ) sometimes I have a teak glider. I alternate them between porch and yard.
( & hanging baskets- usually I make myself from perennials)</p>
<p>a porch was actually something I really wanted ( we also have a back porch)- although it isn’t as big as what I really wanted which would be across the whole front and down the side.</p>
<p>But at least I have the bay window.</p>
<p>Our front porch is too narrow for a bench, unfortunately, but I have hanging flower baskets, and a door wreath for each season/ holiday.</p>
<p>In my next life I am getting a wrap-around porch.</p>
<p>I would love to have one of those seagrass outdoor sofa’s on my back porch, but shoot, they are so expensive, any one seen a good deal, better than Pottery Barn (!) out there any where?</p>
<p>My sister, channeling sluggy’s NV relatives has a white trash formerly indoor couch on her porch, very comfy, but it just missing something in affect!</p>
<p>channeling sluggy’s NV relatives has a white trash formerly indoor couch on her porch</p>
<p>What? You don’t like the plastic chairs either?
:D</p>
<p>If you really have extra time you can hit up the yard sales and get a wicker one, my sister haunts craigslist</p>
<p>You also can try Pier One- they are getting more expensive, but I think they have similar stuff.</p>
<p>We have all weather wicker, which is so comfy (good pillow), flowers, barbecue stuff. LOVVVVEEEE the porch!</p>
<p>We have a Charleston bench, wooden rockers and plants with a couple small tables. Though we don’t use front porch near as often as back porch that has the all weather wicker, ceiling fan, eating table and chairs and is screened.</p>
<p>Large porch with swing and wicker furniture set. Would like to get all weather type wicker but old stuff is doing well so far. Ceiling fan would be great addition.</p>
<p>Another vote for hanging baskets w/ Fuchsias.</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted a porch swing. Future (or current?) grandchildren will be big fans. Hanging plants, as many have said, are great. I don’t really have much to add, but I really like the swing idea.</p>
<p>I have a traditional front porch. It’s funny, because these were always meant for sitting and hanging out or entertaining. Of course, we end up hanging out in the backyard. It’s really more of a decorative thing, which is a shame, I guess! The front porch is usually decorated with large urns and seasonal flowers (mums, geraniums, etc.) and plants (when the deer don’t walk right up to the front door and eat them) , as well as a bench and an oversized front door mat. A really cool porch swing is on my list of things to get, too!</p>
<p>Our front porch is small so we just stick with hanging baskets. We often hang our American flag on it but not from a pole. We put it on a dowel rod with a wire going from end to end so it hangs straight and then hang it against the back wall of our white wooden porch. Looks pretty and different from the street, sort of folk artish. </p>
<p>Our back porch has a big swing and white weather wicker rocker and small table. H also added some of his grandfather’s small antique tools around the top of the ceiling and a bronze colored outdoor thermometer/clock.</p>
<p>I hadn’t thought about a swing. A fine idea that brings memories of the one at the grandparents home in the country. I like the idea of a fan too but should that be restricted to enclosed porches? Wicker seems to be the way to go for seating, as opposed to the iron and wood benches that seem to be popular in some areas.</p>
<p>We own a circa 1876 Victorian with a BIG front porch. It is enclosed with removable glass/screen panels so and heated so it is a three season room for us. We have furnished it with wicker and rocking chairs, floor lamp, 2 person dining table, oriental carpet(partial) and satellite stereo speakers.</p>
<p>We spend a lot of time out there watching our little piece of the world go by and have made some friends too.</p>
<p>We have fans both on a screen porch and under a deck over a patio area. They make outdoor weather fans. We also have one at a boat dock and have had no problems with it.</p>
<p>All weather wicker with lots of comfy pillows. Hanging baskets of fuscias. Planters with pansies. Big wicker box full of legos & hot wheel cars so neighborhood kids congregate there on rainy days. Seasonal wreaths & American flag. I even sit there in the winter as long as there is no wind chill danger. A front porch was a must when house hunting; my neighborhood is all turn-of-the century homes with porches.</p>