To find it strange to hang a fake flower wreath on your front door at the height of summer

Why are you so judgemental?

Judgy much?!

I think you do understand it OP but it’s a very MN thing to post sounding faux confused when what you actually mean is - they’re really tacky and for people who are poorer/lower class than me.

I don’t like fake flowers much but it’s not hard to understand why people might - lots of reasons given above. I do like a bit of seasonal decorating though, life’s tough for a lot of people so if a cheerful wreath on the door makes it a bit nicer what’s the harm?

I had a mini eggs one for Easter, wouldnt have made any sense for that not to be fake.

We get it OP, you are just a much more tasteful person than us plastic wreath hanging paupers.
Obviously the only reason we don't hang a fresh flower wreath, carefully curated from flowers grown in our one acre garden is because we lack the vision to design and make our own every two days, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we are working 40 hours a week to keep body and soul together and my one acre garden is a tiny back yard.....
Perhaps I should just accept that pretty wreaths are only for those with the means to have fresh flowers every few days, whilst I'm at it I have a few vases of fake flowers inside too. I am going to immediately put them all in a bin liner and send them straight to landfill so no-one has to look at the atrocities.

It's dealer code for heroin.

Do you prefer wreaths composed of dead, wilted blooms?

Of allthe things in life to find strange THIS iswhat occupies your mind. I must say, there's some bizarre irks posted about on here or people get heated over pretty innocuous things, but this is hilarious. You have too much time on your hands if this annoys you. You don't need to stare at them and people like different decorations, colours, styles etc which adds to the variety of life. Get on with your day and let others hang one on THEIR door.

Oh god OP have you seen the explosion of restaurants in London (and possibly elsewhere) that are head to toe with fake flowers on the outside? Absolutely hideous. Seems to be a trend even in some posh bits like Chelsea and Mayfair. Just why.

Have you never looked at some gardens? Concreted over for parking, or fake grass. The same ‘floral abundance’ in December as in June.

sorry but this just seems so mean, and to start an actual thread about it. ?

Obviously the people who do it think it's lovely, cheery, bright. They feel they are adorning and loving their home in a way that will endure (would need two fresh wreaths a week in the summer if not 'fake'!)

What do you want us to say? Yes what a lot of skank losers? Fake flowers are so naff, and why would they put up plastic flowers when all our borders are bursting wtih real roses?

Some people don't have gardens, or flowers.
Some come from a culture where fake flowers are a sign of caring and decorating your home. (eg in countries full of flowers, like Greece and Spain!)
Some people do this and think passers by will think oh how lovely.

That's my advice. Just because it's not your taste, doesn't mean it isn't valid and I think it's unkind to disrespect it, and be 'superior'.

I have a fake floral summer wreath on my front door. For me it brightens up the front of my house, and adds a bit of interest. I've only git a tarmac driveway, so no front garden. Also, the front of my house is north facing, so anuthing i've tried to grow in posts over the years hasn't fared very well. I'd prefer a real wreath, but they need refreshing and my finances don't stretch to that, and i dont have the time to be faffing. The faux wreath is a happy compromise, and it pleases me.

Also, if other people are bothered by the decor in or around my home, they are not my people.

I'm a single mum, well-educated but financially ruined after a difficult divorce.

I feel lucky to be in the position I'm in (solvent, home with a very small mortgage). I could aspire to better neighbourhoods where people looked down on anything they didn't see as "tasteful' but why would I?

If my neighbours want an artificial wreath on their door and that's the biggest of your worries, consider yourself very lucky indeed.

Oh dear, I am a Brit in the US and I have the following wreaths; Christmas ones (actually have at least 10 as I have them in windows with candles and on doors inside my house), a spring one, St Valentines day one, an Easter one, St Patricks day one, a summer one, fall one and Halloween. Some have fairy lights, others don’t. I also have decorations in my house for most of those occasions too but I do go crazy at Christmas. Makes me happy. Do I care that there are judgmental people in the UK that live differently to me and don’t like it, absolutely not.

I like having a wreath on my door. Adds a splash of colour (all the doors around here are the same boring black) and it’s handy for directing delivery people / visitors. I have different ones for different times of the year. They bring me pleasure. They don’t mean I’m tacky or trashy. I started doing it because the door looked so plain after taking down my Christmas wreath. I didn’t get the idea from the Americans, Instagram or so-called influencers.

My DM suffers with Alzheimer's, she recognises her front door, in the assisted living community, because of the fake summer flower wreath on it. She loves it, so whether mumsnet consider them tacky or not I love it too for the little bit of comfort it offers her knowing she has the right door.

It also matches the fake flowers we've decorated her bacony with, which she delights in, but she would forget to water real plants

Well it's just nice innit.

I think it's weirder to be offended by a wreath tbh.

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People (usually) do it because they like the way it looks or at least prefer it to a blank door. Not much more mysterious or complicated than that. I don't bother, but I've known people who do, and they're just regular people. 😉Depending on the quality of the fake flowers used, some look okay to me. I must be dreadfully common...

What's the problem, OP? As others have said, different people have different tastes. They are not exactly fly-tipping in the front lawn and making it look unsightly.

Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean other people don't, just as if you'd go into their homes you may not like their decor.

Are you implying that people with wreaths (as an aside I don't have one, but I couldn't care less if others do) are of a lower social standing than you and therefore don't have as much taste?

Isn't this just any other trend like "Live Love Laugh" or twiggy and pebbly shit was a few years ago.

Well this sum it up, you have your answer OP, it's just an ornament. Some people just like hanging cheap plastic shite from China on their doors.

Mine is there to hide a massive scratch mark made by the previous owners. I'd swap the door but we're in a conservation area and it's stupidly expensive. I hate it too, if that's any help.

Christmas wreaths are generally made from plants which are around at that time of year, so if an artificial one is okay then why is an artificial summer one not okay?

Presumably people don't want to have to keep replacing the real flowers when they die.

My child has profound special needs and he loved our Christmas one so much I let him have one up all the time. If people like you don’t like it, I frankly couldn’t give two fucks because he does like it.

What do you mean 'thinking' behind it?

It's just an ornament.

You either like them or you don't.

I personally don't, but I'm not daft enough to think there's any kind of deep and meaningful reason why others do.