Customizing A Store Bought Wreath For Summer

I was looking for a cascading floral wreath for my front door, but couldn't find one in my colors or my price range.

Instead, I customized a store bought wreath with flowers from the dollar store and made my decorating dreams come true.

For someone who's obsessed with decorating, there's no better time than a change of season.

It's an opportunity to fluff and feather.

To update and swap.

To infuse every room in the house with a little seasonal flair.

Both inside and out.

Now normally, when summer weather moves in to my little northeastern harbor town, I pull out all the stops.

I decorate the patio and pool area, open the umbrellas, drag out the pillows and plant lots of flowers.

However, this year, June showed up while our yard was a mess.

The patio was being replaced, so the pool wasn't open and instead of decor, there was just a lot of gravel and dirt back there.

That meant the only place I had to decorate was my front door.

And since it was the one and only place I had to get creative outside and add some color, I wanted to do it up big.

I also wanted to do something a bit different, which wasn't easy, because over the years, I've tried a lot of different things to make my house smile.

Unique door decor for every month of the year.

From flags and flowers, to letter embellished wreaths and tulip filled rain boots. But I wasn't up for a repeat.

Therefore, I decided that some research was necessary.

Everywhere I went I kept my eye on the doors. Nothing really stood out, until one day I passed a lovely baby blue door with a fabulous wreath. 

It was very colorful, but the eye catching part was that it had flowers that trailed down from circular frame. In a very tasteful way. 

But I couldn't remember it exactly, and nothing came up when I searched for it online. Hmph. So I decided that I had to find it again. 

Unfortunately, my middle aged brain was a bit blurry on its location, so it took me a few days to remember where'd I been when I spied it.

And when I finally found it, it looked nothing like what I remembered.

There were no floral tendrils and, as a matter of fact, that blue door...was orange. Disturbing, but I had bigger issues. 

I wanted the wreath I had in my head. The one I thought I saw on that front door...driving by at 40 mph.

Oh boy. 

Well, clearly the only way to get there was to DIY it.

However. 

I rarely, make my own wreaths from scratch anymore. I think the last one I made was my dollar store daisy wreath. 

It usually just doesn't pay. 

What I do instead, is find a sale priced wreath and embellish it. Much cheaper and much easier.

So that's where I started. I found a geranium wreath with a few hanging flowers for about $15.


It was very red, which is normally a good thing, but it was too monotone for this summer. I craved more color. 

A quick trip to Dollar Tree fixed that. I grabbed a bunch of bright stems, in pink, yellow and white, on the same day I found the floral contact paper for my desk drawer cover.

It was a very lucky Dollar {twenty five} Tree kind of day.

If my wreath didn't already have hanging flowers, I would've bought a few vines and added them to create my own. Just a tip in case you can't find a cascading wreath and like the look.

Once I got home, I charged up my cordless glue gun, hung the wreath on the front door and started making outdoor decor dream come true.

Customizing my store bought wreath with the colors of my choice.

Colors that popped and brought a little bit of what I have going on inside, outside.

I have to say, the cordless glue gun was very helpful. I was able to work on the wreath outside, in the place it would be displayed.

It made a huge difference and I was able to arrange the flowers in a way that looked best on the door.

Plus, I got to chat with all the neighbors who were strolling by. Crafting with company is a definite bonus on a sunny, almost summer, Saturday afternoon.

To get started, I added some big pink flowers in between the red.

Then I glued several of them onto the hanging bits. I tucked in a few delicate white blooms and deep purple tones, too.

Every now and then I would step back to the curb to get some perspective and adjust my decorating course.

Overall though, I just kept removing flowers from the plastic stems and adding them to the formerly plain wreath until it was super full.

And overflowing with color.


Decorating my front door.

And welcoming summer into my home.

Just like the wreath I saw on my drive weeks ago.

Well sort of.

But exactly like the one I saw in my head.

😉

Do you dream up decor?