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Vintage Umbrella on Door

April 4, 2016

April showers bring May flowers. If you’ve been on Pinterest lately, you’ve seen them… those cute umbrellas with flowers spouting out the top, hanging on the door for a fun Spring welcome!

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Vintage Umbrella on Door

Repurposing a Vintage Umbrella

I started to shop for a vintage umbrella HERE, what a fantastic resource! This red one is the one I thought would look great on our front door. however… it’s a little too bright red for my taste, but I though maybe it’d still work OK once it was up and displayed, so I continued to pursue the vintage umbrella on door look.

Command Hook

For hanging the parasol on the the door, I used a Command hook. If you’ve never used them, I highly recommend them. HERE are several choices of Command Hooks!

Here’s how they work… There are 3 components to the hooks…

The back part you put on the wall or door first, the actual hook front part, and the adhesive strip. That strip is what, when you’re done with the hook, just pulls down and stretches until it cleanly comes off the wall or door, just like magic. So you’ll need to replace the strip with a new one the next time you go to re-hang the hook again, but the other two plastic parts of the hook you re-use.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Command hook

I used a heavy duty hook for the door, thinking that the wind may move the parasol around a little and wanted to be sure it hung on well. (that’s actually the same hook I used this Christmas for the deer antlers I hung in the living room)

They’re super easy to install, the sticky strip is marked which side goes to the back of the hook and which goes to the wall or door. It recommends you put it on and let it set for a while before you put weight on the hook.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Command hook back on

Once the back was placed on the door, I just slid the hook part over it, it gently snaps into place over the back.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com command hook on door

Ta-da it’s done. When it’s time to remove the hook, slide the hook part back up, and pull the tab of the sticky strip straight down and it just stretches and like magic completely comes off, not a spot of sticky residue! I love them and how great they’ve worked for me inside and out. (I used them at our former house on the pair of french doors too)

The Vintage Umbrella I Found

Ok, now back to the actual decoration…

Here’s the vintage parasol, it really is cute with the wooden handle. I grabbed a bunch of faux flowers from the dollar tree… which again, may be part of the issue with this too… I think just white flowers of a little better quality would have worked better…

SimpleDecoratingTips.com parasol and flowers

Plastic Bag Stuffing

I wanted the parasol to look kind of full in it’s half-closed state of hanging on the door, so I stuffed some plastic grocery bags inside it.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com plastic bags fill out parasol

Vintage Ribbon

Next, I grabbed from my collection of vintage ribbons, most of which I bought on HERE a few years ago, SO MANY fun choices.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Ebay ribbon

Wired the Bouquet

To keep the bouquet together and not wind up having a stem or two slip down into the parasol, I bundled them together, (I couldn’t find my florist wire, so I just tied them with jute twine)

That was it… I then stuffed the flowers in the top of the parasol, tied the teal ribbon around the middle of it and…

SimpleDecoratingTips.com tie a bunch of flowers

hung it on the door.

But…

SimpleDecoratingTips.com bouquet done on door

I gotta say, I don’t ‘love’ it…

I think it’s a combination of the bright colors and cheap flowers… it’s just not my favorite.

I do love the wooden handle of the parasol though, if that’s worth anything.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com handle on hook

Umbrella All Done

It’s still hanging on the door, I’m going to go look for some white, better quality flowers and see if I can make it work.

SimpleDecoratingTips.com full door with umbrella

That’s just how it goes sometimes, even for decorators… some things are a miss. Miss or not, I’m not afraid to keep trying new things in design and decorating. To me that what it’s all about, trying new things and see what one likes and how to achieve it.

What do you have on your front door for Spring?

Here are more Easter and spring decorating ideas:

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Vintage Umbrella on Front Door
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  1. Sandi Magle says

    April 15, 2016 at 10:59 am

    That is adorable…so love the colors you used to! I have to pin/fb this…so cute

    Reply
  2. Cecilia MyThriftStoreAddiction says

    April 10, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    Liz, I love the umbrella and what a fun spring door greeting! Thank you for sharing @Vintage Charm!

    Reply
  3. Sherry says

    April 9, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing at Home Sweet Home!

    Reply
  4. Sharon Blue Willow House says

    April 8, 2016 at 12:32 am

    Beautiful vintage umbrella and it looks great on your door. sb

    Reply
  5. LikeableNut says

    April 6, 2016 at 6:17 am

    What a gorgeous vintage umbrella- far prettier than mine! I’d love it if you’d link up to Talk of the Town! 🙂 http://www.sadieseasongoods.com/talk-town-link-party-14/

    Reply
  6. Regality (aka The Quing) says

    April 5, 2016 at 1:14 pm

    You may not love it, but I do!

    Reply
    • Liz says

      April 5, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      awe… thanks. 🙂

      Reply

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