Using Yellow on your Summer Porch
Using Yellow on your Summer Porch
I am not sure that my front porch got the memo about the color of the year.
Or if it did…. it just didn’t care. Southern Porches are like that.
Marsala is not it’s best color and besides, between you and me, could you see this porch in that color anyways? Nah
So with good reason I choose yellow to be my summer’s front porch color of the year. The reasons. It’s bright, it’s cheerful, it’s welcoming and it works with the exterior color of my house. Coco Rum has always been a challenging color to match chair cushions with. Click here to see last years Summer front porch.
I think I saw this cute flower pillow first and then found these cushions. Slightly backwards, but it seemed to work in this situation and looks great on my outdoor wicker furniture. The furniture was actually an anniversary gift to each other 9 years ago. It doesn’t get more romantic then that now, does it?
Seriously though, when the sun is setting like it was in these pictures, there’s no one that I would rather be sitting outside with on the front porch, then my hubby….and the kids, dogs, cats and chickens.
We take our porch dates seriously around here…just like our ferns. It’s a Southern staple on every porch, from now until the first frost.
I think the front porch and the color yellow will have a wonderful summer together, that’s until the kids, dogs and cats make themselves at home on the yellow cushions and bring the dirt along with them! Don’t you agree?
To see the 2016 summer porch, click here.
grateful
for long summer days
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Beautiful! Yellow is such a happy color. Enjoy your summer porch!
your porch and outdoor areas are one of my favorites in blogland!
and to answer your comment question- i am all about our porch! 🙂
Porches are absolutely my favorite room of the house!!!!!! Your choice of yellow was perfect!!!!
You know how much I LOVE your porch….there is nothing like great Southern Porch!….I also love yellow!…such a happy color!
The yellow is just lovely on your lovely porch!!! 🙂 Linda
I love your white wicker furniture with yellow cushions. That flower pillow is adorable! Your porch is just beautiful with the stone floor and ceiling fans and round columns. I'm a huge porch lover myself and that's what sold us on our house. I'll always have a porch! Yes, ferns are the perfect staple for a shady porch. They do well on ours better than flowers.
Absolutely adore your porch! I, like you, live on my southern porches savoring wonderful childhood memories of doing the same with loved ones passed and children grown and flown.
I noticed the pillows yesterday and forgot to mention them. I think yellow was a great choice
Cindy
I love what you have done with your porch! Just beautiful. I love to decorate my back porch because we have to walk through there multiple times a day, so it's especially important to me that it be pretty and welcoming.
Tina Matteson
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I wait anxiously each summer for the neighbor's trees (what kind?!) to stop dropping their junk, so I can finally put out all my summer back porch decor. I love adding the cushions, the outdoor rug….all the pretties to go along with that. Don't you just love having another room to use during the summer months?!
Love the color! My stoop will have to do- no front porch:(
Oh my so pretty Laura! Yes, a fern is standard greenery here in the South. Too bad I kill em quick LOL!
Yellow is so fresh and fun! Love it!
Wow and woah are what came to mind when I saw your porch. It is absolutely my dream porch and yellow is my favorite color! Everything is perfection about your space! I'm so happy I had a chance to party with you…sharing this beautiful space.
hugs, mb
Your porch is so welcoming and fresh looking with the white and yellow. Beautiful
I love the color yellow because it is a happy color and it puts a smile on one's face. Joyous!!
I want to sit on that porch and never leave, it is beautiful and I love the yellow!
Pinned
XO
Kristin
Your porch looks deep & inviting. Perfect for porch dates and everything "Summer".
So very welcoming!!
Yellow is the perfect choice for a spring porch in the south. Matches the pollen! Seriously, lovely.
I love yellow, it's such a happy color. It's actually my best friend's fave. Your porch looks dreamy!
So very pretty. Love the yellow floral cushions. Simple yet elegant. Beautiful blog and happy to join your link party for the first time. Thank you Love from India and Sujatha:)
Your porch is gorgeous and yellow the color of sunshine, warmth and happiness. I agree with you yellow is beautiful with the color of your house, it brings out the richness of the color.
Oh my goodness, Larua! This porch makes me SIGH!!! I adore the happy, sunny yellow and all your attention to detail. Elegant and sassy and southern and fun… all in one! LOVE this!
I love decorating my porch for summer and am thinking that I need to add some yellow now! Your porch is amazing!!!
Your porch is so pretty! I absolutely LOVE decorating my back porch which joins our deck for each season, but summer is my favorite! I just hosted a bridal shower this past weekend for our son's bride-to-be & it was fun to make sure my flowers, dry sink, dual wash tubs & all the wonderful items I love were just right for the shower! Cindy Lynn E.
Your porch is just stunning Laura!! Just increases my porch envy! 🙂
Oh, this could be my favorite porch ever! I LOVE the yellow, truly. I couldn't use it as it would look awful against my house but it is PERFECT here. I love all your accessories too and am wondering where you found yellow planters? It all looks gorgeous!!
Yellow! Could anything be more lovely? Your porch is wonderful.