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Hi, it's Lindsay Dianne from DianneDecor.com
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In this video, I'm going to show you how you can save money decorating your home by using
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the same front door wreath for all four seasons. One of the easiest ways to decorate your entryway is with a nice wreath and a doormat
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But the price of wreaths can go sometimes as high as $200
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On the cheap end, you may be able to find something for $20 or $30, but it won't have
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all the embellishments of a really nice full wreath. And so I found myself over the years making my own wreaths, which is one of the easiest
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DIY home decor projects that you can embark on. But they still didn't have that really great fullness that I wanted while staying within
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a small budget. So what I decided to do was to test out having the same wreath for all four seasons
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What I found was that some of the best options for an all-year-round wreath are either going
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to be something that has a signage on it, so it says hello, it says welcome, it may
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have your monogram on it or your family's last name. Or you can choose a greenery that you see in all four seasons, like eucalyptus or a boxwood
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And so I went on the hunt for an all-year-round wreath, and I'll show you the one that I found
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This is the wreath right here. I got it from Amazon. You can also buy it at Walmart and a few other places
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This guy is about 20 inches. It's a eucalyptus wreath. It has some very details and some little floral details
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But what I like the most was that it has this kind of like wispy texture to it
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It's really kind of whimsical and it is a great neutral base for you to be able to add
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different things to it. And now while of course you can have this wreath up all year round just like this, what
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I did was I gave it four different looks for each of the seasons
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And I did this just by adding a few, and I do mean a few little flowers that went with
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each season and just swapped them out. So let me start by saying this method works really well if you are decorating for seasons
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versus holidays. Now I tend to decorate my home only for the season
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The only holiday that I really decorate for is Christmas. So I do have a separate light-up pine wreath for Christmastime
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But for the purposes of this all-year-round wreath, I use it as it is in its base form
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for winter. So after Christmas, I put up this wreath until spring
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And then in the springtime, I went with a combination of tulips and lilacs
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The tulips were really inexpensive. I bought them from AliExpress a long, long time ago, so I didn't have to purchase anything
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for this. Again, you can find this stuff on Amazon as well
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The tulips that I have are like a latex tulip. They're not silk
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So they have this nice kind of smooth, almost rubbery feeling, that like real-touch feeling
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that they advertise. That's what you get with these. And I like that they kind of flop around
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They have a little bit of weight to them. And they, of course, are going to hold up in the sun, and they're not going to kind
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of get bleached out. You're not going to have to worry about getting them wet, because they are already made of
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like a latex rubbery feeling. Now the lilac stems, I bought literally one bunch of them for $1.25 at Dollar Tree
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And I broke them up, I snipped them apart, and just kind of stuffed them into the wreath
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And that was it. That was my spring wreath. Tulips, lilacs, on top of my plain, all-year-round wreath base
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Now moving from spring into summer, I decided to swap out the tulips and the lilacs for
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some purple hydrangeas. Again, this is another item that I bought from Dollar Tree
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They come about five, with five heads to a stem. I tuck them in
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And let me just remind you that if you want to use the same wreath base all year round
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and just add embellishments, make sure that you're not hot gluing anything in place, because
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you'll end up damaging your wreath base when you're trying to rip off the flowers later on
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So for me, you're gonna see that all I did was I tucked all of the flowers in, I flip
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it over, and then I find a way to twist and tuck and secure the stems in there so that
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they're nice and snug, and when the wind blows they're not gonna fall all over the place
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But I'm not gluing anything, I'm not doing any permanent attachment. When fall came around, I swapped out those hydrangeas for some fall eucalyptus stems
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So these were more of like a burnt orange, rusty, weathered eucalyptus
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And what I did was I just snipped a few pieces from the stems, and I slid the leaves up so
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that they were all kind of bunched up so that I could have these little flourishes of orange
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in the wreath. And then I got this little hello fall sign from Dollar General, I placed it in the middle
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I used the twist ties to secure it to the wreath, and that was it. And that was my fall wreath
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That's the way that you can use the same wreath for all four seasons and still get an updated
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look for each of the seasons. You can get different looks out of the same wreath base by just choosing a few florals
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one or two for the season, tuck them in, and instantly you have this beautiful fall
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wreath that any place else you would have spent $50, $60, $70 for
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That's it for this video. I hope you found it helpful. If you did, please share it with a friend, and don't forget to visit me at dianedecore.com
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I write all about decorating on a budget and DIY home decor over there
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Thanks again for watching. I'll see you in the next video. Bye
