Good friends Charlene Miller and Merry Munk enjoy sharing and showing off their salvage style on their fundamental Ohio porches. These two could often be found scouring flea markets, auctions and garage sales in search of their next paintings. Their finds eventually succumb to the intense Midwestern weather, however the resulting patina a part of their appeal.
Whether you’re looking for ways to liven up your porch or repurpose a secondhand find, let these photos inspire you to dress up your house’s front this fall.
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1. Charlene Miller’s Porch: Saved From Farms and Markets
This inviting seating area is on Miller’s porch. The chipping paint on the table and chair confirms their history. Sans legs, the table, came from her own aunt. The wagon holding gourds in the flower bed has been stored from a metal scrapyard.
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Corn stalks pulled from Miller’s family farm make her door welcoming in an autumn country manner. Her long family grows corn and soybeans on 500 acres in Madison County.
She plans to swap the corn stalks to get thin lit Christmas trees this winter and also hang a pine needle wreath. Additionally, the windows will get wreathswalnut garlands will wrap the posts.
Miller’s Amish grandmother used the crock on the ideal side of the measure to make pickles.
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Homegrown gourds fill a toolbox Miller bought at an auction. She will fill it with greenery such as Christmas and blossoms in the summertime.
To increase the gourds, Miller lost a year’s gourds in her backyard, make them compost on the winter, and then tilled them to the floor at the onset of the growing year.
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Miller split her porch into sections, creating several seating areas. The wagon with all the celebrity cutout, far right, was a gift from her friend Merry Munk.
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Petunias and mums add a burst of colour to this section. The iron Ferris wheel, discarded by a friend, today creates a fantastic holder for mini pumpkins and gourds. Miller made the”Fall Blessings” cushion using felt letters predicated on with fusible webbing.
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Miller and her dad made this market pushcart together. “I discovered that the wheels from an auction and knew I needed to earn a pushcart with it eventually. It only took me five years to get it done,” Miller says. The milk could atop the cart belonged to her Amish grandfather.
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Wheelbarrow handles permit better maneuverability of the cart. Its intended purpose was to disguise a well, but Miller intends to maneuver it around the lawn. For example, she imagines using it as a drink cart in the summer when entertaining. She also intends to add gift wrapped boxes and a Christmas tree on it this winter.
Decorating lessons from Miller’s porch: Decorate your porch like it’s a room within your house. Do not be concerned about the weather. Patina gives a warm welcome.
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2. Merry Munk’s Porch: Country-Living Style
Ten minutes off, in a nearby city, Miller’s friend Munk has her own patina style.
Munk utilizes her porch as a creative outlet for her love of decorating. To achieve complete and lively hanging baskets, Munk purchased plants in moss baskets and fertilized them daily.
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This region of Munk’s front porch boasts a gorgeous antique cabinet and bent-willow furniture. Munk stores seasonal decorations within the cabinet, maintaining them within reach, because she alters the decorations on her porch every month.
The birdcage is from the Springfield Antique Show and Flea Market. The”Home Sweet Home” banner ad is from a barn sale at The French Hen Farm.
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The shuttered cabinet and chandelier add privacy and character to this side of the porch.
Munk swaps out the decorations on her porch every month to coincide with seasonal parties. November will have a Thanksgiving motif, December will probably be Christmas and January will feature snowmen.
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Although Munk lives in a housing development on a little lot, she decided to grow her own pumpkins in her front flower bed. The wide leaves make a wonderful edge in summer and early fall. She utilizes the pumpkins as a piece of her decor, as jack-o’-lanterns and for pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin growing tip: Start with good soil, fertilize regularly and water twice per day on warm days.
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Munk is uninhibited in regards to displaying art, hanging a favorite bit on her exterior wall just as she would within the home. The”Country Living” sign is by the Springfield Antique Show and Flea Market.
This component of Munk’s flower bed is devoted to growing herbs: Italian and curled parsley, lavender, sage, cilantro, chives, basil, golden lemon thyme and Greek oregano.
Munk thoroughly appreciates her porch, using it as a place for interacting with neighbors, relaxing with a lemonade on a hot day and waiting for the school bus.
Decorating lessons from Munk’s porch: Let people get to know a bit about you through your decorating before they reach the front door. And in case you have a front porch, then use it for your self and share it with all the neighbors.
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Miller (left) and Munk on Munk’s front porch.
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