Every October the same thing happens. You drive past a house on Nob Hill or Griffin Road with the pumpkins stacked three deep on the steps, the mums in exactly the right rust color, a wreath that looks like it cost more than it did, and you think: I want that. Then you price out forty pumpkins at the farm stand, realize you own a sedan, and remember that in three weeks somebody has to haul all of it to the curb.
That is the whole reason Portico Seasonal exists. We design the display, we source the material, we bring it to your house, we build it on your steps, and when the season is over we come back and take it away. You get the porch. You skip the truck, the storage, and the Sunday afternoon.
A finished display is a Porchscape. Same word every season, so when you book again in December you already know what you are asking for.
What comes with every fall package
The package price is the real price. There is no separate labor charge and no materials markup added at the end.
- The design. We pick the palette against your actual house, not a catalog photo. Pale stucco with a dark door takes different pumpkins than a Mediterranean front with barrel tile.
- The material. Real pumpkins and gourds in the sizes and colors the design calls for, plus the mums, stalks, and dry goods that go with them.
- Delivery and install. We show up, build it, sweep up after ourselves, and send you a photo when it is done. Most installs run under two hours and you do not have to be home.
Design is included in every package except the two smallest, where you can add it for $75 or just tell us the look you want and save the money.
The fall packages
Four sizes plus a neutral-tone option. The two in the middle are what most people book.
Package 1, the showstopper
$1,350The full front of the house. Layered pumpkins across the steps, stalks on the columns, mums, hay, and a wreath sized to the door. This is the one people slow down for.
Design included.
Package 2, full front porch
$800A proper front-porch display without going to the top of the range. Steps and entry fully dressed, wreath, mums, and enough height that it reads from the road.
Design included.
Oh My Gourd, neutral tones
$750Same scale as Package 2 in whites, creams, sage, and pale grey. Built for the houses where orange would fight the facade. Popular in Weston, Parkland, and Boca.
Design included.
Package 3, the most popular
$525The one most people book. A well-built entry display with real depth on the steps, a wreath, and seasonal color, sized for a standard front door and stoop.
Add design for $75.
Package 4, the starter
$325A tight, well-composed doorway. Pumpkins grouped at the entry, a wreath, and a couple of accents. The right call for a townhouse entry or a covered stoop with limited room.
Add design for $75.
Custom
from $3,500Multi-area, oversized, or event-scale work. Circular drives, double staircases, a whole entry courtyard. We design it from scratch and quote it against the site.
Add-ons
Bolt any of these onto any package. Prices are per item.
- Design service, $75. Package 3 and Package 4 only. It is already included above that.
- Hay bale, $40 each. The single fastest way to add height and structure to a flat entry.
- Mums, $50. Adds the color that pumpkins alone cannot.
- Cornstalks, $45. Best on columns and porch posts, and they read from the street.
- Wildlife deterrent, $95. Worth reading the honest note below before you skip this one.
- Backyard or second area setup, $150. For the pool deck, the side entry, or a party.
Pickup and removal
This is a real product, not an afterthought, and most clients add it. We come back after the season, break the display down, load it, and haul it away. Nothing goes to your curb and nothing goes in your garage.
- Package 1 and Package 2: $150
- Package 3: $100
- Package 4: $75
If you skip it, you own the teardown. That is a genuinely unpleasant November afternoon with a lot of soft pumpkins, so we would rather you added it now.
The Thanksgiving refresh
Halloween decor and Thanksgiving decor are not the same thing, but they are close enough that you do not need a second full install. About a week after Halloween we come back, pull the Halloween-leaning pieces and anything that has gone soft, and rework what is left into a warmer, quieter harvest display that carries you to the end of November.
It is priced against what your porch actually needs, because a Package 4 doorway needs a different refresh than a Package 1 front. If you are already a fall client, ask when we install and we will quote it then. It is by far the cheapest way to get a second season out of one booking.
The honest part about pumpkins in South Florida
We cannot make a pumpkin last, and we will not pretend otherwise. Real pumpkins are produce. In October heat and humidity, sitting on a warm stone step, some of them will soften, split, or mold well before Halloween. That is the material, not the workmanship.
What we can do is stack the odds. We choose thick-skinned varieties over thin ones, we keep pumpkins off direct wet surfaces, we favor covered entries where the design allows, and we build so that pulling one bad pumpkin does not collapse the arrangement. On a shaded, covered porch a display often holds the whole season. On a west-facing set of unshaded steps in a wet October, it will not.
Wildlife is the other thing nobody warns you about. Squirrels, raccoons, iguanas, and possums all treat a pumpkin display as a buffet, and in the neighborhoods backing onto canals and preserve land it is closer to a certainty than a risk. The $95 deterrent add-on is the cheapest insurance we sell.
If something fails early, tell us. We are not going to argue with you about a pumpkin. We would much rather swap it and keep you as a Christmas client.
When to book
Installs run from late September through the weekend before Halloween, and the good weekend dates go first. If you want your porch up for a party, tell us the date when you request and we will build the schedule around it rather than the other way round.
Fall is also where most of our December calendar comes from. If you book a fall Porchscape we will ask, once, whether you want us to hold a Christmas date before that book fills up. No pressure and no auto-charge, but the people who wait until December usually do not get their first choice.
What delivery costs, and why
We work out of central Broward, so the further we drive the more the job costs us in fuel, trailer time, and the installs we cannot fit in that day. Instead of quietly padding the package price or turning down the far-out homes, we charge the drive as its own line so you can see it.
- Zone 1, no fee. Plantation, Davie, Cooper City, and west Miramar. We are already there.
- Zone 2, $25. Weston, Southwest Ranches, Coral Springs, Parkland, and Sunrise.
- Zone 3, $50. Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Wellington, and Loxahatchee.
- Zone 4, $100 and a package minimum. Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, and the Palm Beach coast. These are scheduled on route days rather than on demand, and we do not run the small doorway package up there, because the drive eats the whole job.
The quote tool on the home page adds your zone automatically, so the number you see there is the number you pay.
Ready to price it out
The quote tool on the home page gives you an itemized number in about thirty seconds, including your delivery zone. When it looks right, hit reserve and it carries your whole selection into the booking form.