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Farmhouse Porch Christmas Decor Ideas

December 10, 2018 by Ashley Hackshaw

This year I was so excited to decorate the Sixty-One Park porch….because it’s the first time in a long, long time that I’ve had an actual porch! So here are a few farmhouse porch Christmas decor ideas:

I love traditional garland and bows. This is fake garland…it looks so real and I can use it year after year. It comes in a set of 6 from Michaels (5.5ft Arborvitae Garland, Set of 6):

I used lanterns I already owned and just added large bows to each one:

I love signs. This Merry Christmas North Pole Sign made my wreath a lot less lonely on this wall. The pop of red is really festive:

This is one of my favorite fake wreaths I’ve found too (24″ Cedar Eucalyptus & Pinecone Wreath By Ashland):

I’m really picky about wreaths and it’s just very subtle and natural looking:

A few standalone trees with the lanterns:

I also used the garland inside with the calligraphy signs I made….hanging it on top of the large TV cabinet:

To secure it I just put a few nails into the top of the cabinet:

Here’s my tree again if you missed it! Click here to view all the details.

Want to see my past trees? I have them all linked right here!

A Tour of the Farmhouse – The Finished Renovation

October 3, 2018 by Ashley Hackshaw

I’m so far behind on blogging about the farmhouse that I’m just going to start chipping away on it bit by bit. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos to share of projects done throughout the house and I’ve just started organizing them but if there are any projects you want me to prioritize let me know! First, I’ll start with a new video tour we just finished. We had a ribbon cutting a few weeks ago with the local chamber of commerce so I guess we are official now! Our awesome partners Jaime and Jaime are on the left and Brett and I are on the right. Those are real working scissors I’m holding there and I wanted to steal them. So excited to have had so many people visit during the open house:

Chris and Carley Birch of Birch Production Co did this amazing video of the farmhouse for us (click here if you have trouble watching it on the blog and it will open directly in YouTube).

I’ve been a little all over the place on Instagram with what I’ve been working on: helping to manage guests at The Farmhouse, running a hiking shuttle for Bryson City Outdoors, working on re-landscaping, trimming bonsai trees, painting in my studio etc. We even had a baby bear cub on our home property this morning and I was distracted for a few hours.

Remember when the farmhouse looked like this:

Here is a recent photo of the farmhouse:

A view of town from the house:

To check out our finished restoration project in person come and stay with us! You can visit the official Sixty-One Park Farmhouse site here and we are also on Airbnb and VRBO. We still have two weekends in November open and are starting to book for 2019 now. Come see what our awesome little mountain town is like!

Fall Farmhouse Porch Decor Ideas – DIY Wreath and Pumpkins

September 4, 2018 by Ashley Hackshaw

I’ve been so excited to come up with some fall farmhouse porch decor ideas for Sixty-One Park and it’s finally time!

One of my favorite indoor/outdoor elements that Michaels Stores carries is the plain grapevine wreath. They decorate everything from our chicken coop to our ranch house and I started with one as inspiration for the farmhouse door wreath this year:

From the fall floral section at Michaels I collected floral stems in a muted color palette. Don’t be afraid to cut stems apart to get different pieces!

To make bows that are easy to shape I sometimes will create them in pieces:

I used a glue gun to layer materials, building a wreath one section at a time:

The finished Fall wreath:

This is a rustic frame I found at Michaels and I used a wood panel canvas as an insert. I spray painted the wood with chalkboard paint and used a chalk pen to draw the image:

I pulled pieces from my potting shed and mixed with various fall decor elements from Michaels as well such as lanterns, crates and floral stems:

I’ve accumulated quite a collection of pumpkins from Michaels over the years and I love that they can be reused each year:

Now it’s time to make it feel like fall! How? PUMPKINS of course! Michaels amazing assortment of craft pumpkins are available now to give all the areas in your home that cozy fall feeling. Shop the whole Michaels pumpkin assortment here!

I have so many more Fall and Halloween ideas from over the past few years….click here or the image below to scroll through them all!