Easter Decor Idea: How To Create This Floral Door Arch For Spring
After the success of my first Christmas doorscape, I couldn’t resist having a go at dressing my front door again for Easter. I still had the treated wood frame I built before, so I re-erected it back into place (I secure it to the railings with cable ties). This time, I wanted to avoid the hard work involved in using real foliage that required being kept alive, so this Easter doorscape is 90% artificial flowers and foliage.
I wanted to make it bright, cheery, and spring-like for passers-by to enjoy, so I used a range of faux flowers from Dunelm: magnolia, delphinium, mimosa, and cherry blossom make up most of the design, while I also painted some polystyrene eggs in pastel shades (colours from Dunelm’s Decorate & Co-ordinate paint range: 'Pale Sky' and 'Rose Water') to accentuate that this was an Easter decoration (when Easter passes, I’ll just remove the eggs and keep the doorscape up longer as a spring decoration).
To secure the faux flowers to the timber frame, I tightly wrapped around some Dunelm gypsophila garlands and affixed them with screws at the ends to provide a base coverage to the wood. Then, I simply tucked and twisted the rest of the faux stems through the garlands to hold everything in place. The great thing with faux’s is that the stems are made from wire (this makes them easy to secure and bend into position.)
I wrapped faux garlands around the timber frame as a base to tuck in the rest of the artificial flowers.
To give the design a wild look and make it appear more natural, I used a large number of twisted willow branches to wrap around the flowers and to ‘spray’ out at the side (resulting in a looser looking structure).
I’m delighted with how my Easter doorscape has turned out! As I already had the wood structure the floral design only took a day; it has brought quite a few surprised faces and smiles to the locals when they pass the house!
Please note that this display was part of a paid social campaign with Dunelm UK and I received the product required to create this doorscape FOC. This blog post is not sponsored in any way.
