Front Porch Pergola Ideas

The beauty of a front porch pergola is you can have the best of both worlds. You’ll have the style of a porch, and a shaded area at the front of your house, but without the enclosure of a porch roof.

When remodeling the front of your house, adding a pergola can be a great way of defining a space for you to sit at the front of your property and it looks great.

What’s more, a pergola is the perfect construction to cover with climbing plants, roses and other gorgeous blooms, if that’s your preference. 

A versatile addition, a front porch pergola can add buckets of appeal to the facade of your lovely home.

Timber Front Porch Pergola

There’s something so inviting about the smell and look of freshly sawn lumber. Outside your home when it’s used to build a front porch it seems to say, this is the homestead. 

Under a shady timber pergola you can sit and eat, drink and chat with friends and family, perhaps start up a barbeque. What a great social space.

Padded seats will make for comfy seating and you can envelope yourself with green in the surrounding garden, and by filling large hanging baskets with bright green foliage which can be fixed to the top of the pergola.

On-Trend Black Front Porch

A black front porch pergola looks particularly good if you have a townhouse style home with red shiplap or perhaps of a brick construction.

Emanating out from the front entrance, a black pergola looks stylish and simple. If you love minimalism, this will likely float your boat. But for a little decoration, add hanging baskets with an abundance of colorful flowers.

Traditional White Front Porch

This is probably what we think of when we imagine a front porch. A pastel color painted wood house with elegant sloping lines. A gorgeous, striking first impression.

But rather than a restrictive covered area, a pergola will let in partial light and feel less imposing than a traditional porch. If you like your porch to be pretty, fill some terracotta plant pots with flowers, and those hanging baskets sure do the trick!

Rustic Front Porch Pergola

For a truly traditional wild west porch, a rustic timber front porch pergola as oodles of country charm. If you are handy with tools and DIY, you might try building your own front porch pergola.

For the rustic look, keep your decor simple with a wood bench, some large green shrubs in old plant pots. And for some lighting of an evening, you can add festoon lighting at the top, and maybe some old style lanterns.

Texan Ranch Style Front Porch Pergola

If you have a single level home and like the idea of a ranch, you can build a gorgeous wood pergola at the front of your house.

Keeping the wood natural or painted in a cedar stain will have that cowboy aesthetic. And what is clever about this design is that because the slats are close together, when the sun hits you get an unusual geometric pattern.

Tidy White Porch on a Red Brick House

If your home is shaped in the way that the front of the house juts out creating a recess to the side, then your home is crying out for a formal seating area covered by a neat porch.

White is super classic, and looks expensive and bespoke against a red brick frontage. This design style will need neat hedges and garden, so get out your secateurs! But after your hard work you can unwind under your pergola and watch the world go by.

Raised Timber Front Porch

If you have steps leading to your front door, a porch to the side can be built to the same level as the entrance. You can construct a pergola and paint it white to match your house.

Then leave the deck in a light natural wood and build a large integral planter in the same sunny finish. No one would know it hadn’t been originally designed that way. And you’ll have a little shaded spot at the front of your home.

Romantic Nighttime Porch

A pergola porch can go as tall as you like, so if you have a two-story or higher house, you can create a grand entrance with a high porch.

At night, pull up a couple of chairs and switch on a traditional wall sconce lamp to enjoy the evening air. How wonderfully dreamy.

In Summary

A pergola front porch gives you advantages of a porch in the design aesthetic and somewhere to sit at the front of your home. And you’ll have some shade but without the heaviness and restriction of a porch roof. 

In a myriad of styles from timber, to painted wood in classic ornate or more simple modern designs, there is a front porch pergola to suit your home. You can dress it up with climbing roses and perhaps some hanging baskets filled with greenery or flowers.

And if you like the feel of a tool belt round your waist, you can even have a go at building your own!