How it works
How your porch comes together
Five steps from the day you book to the day you pull in and it is already done. We handle every one of them.
- 01
Choose your display and your install week
Pick one of the six displays, choose the week you want it up, and tell us about your entry. Steps, rails, covered or open, the color of the house, and anything you love or would rather avoid. Photographs help. It takes a couple of minutes, and the price is on screen the whole way: all-inclusive, with nothing waiting at the end.
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Pay the deposit and the week is yours
Half the total, at the checkout, and your week is held. There is no quote to wait for, because the price was settled before you filled anything in. The other half is due before your install day rather than after it, and we send it once your day is confirmed.
- 03
We confirm your day
You choose the week; we confirm which day of it we are coming, by email, once the deposit is in. We only take a handful of porches a week, so a week closes when it is full. If weather or your own plans move things, we agree a new day with you rather than simply not arriving. The season is short: 6 September to 23 October.
- 04
We select your pumpkins and bring them over
Your pumpkins are chosen one at a time the week of your install. Stems, skins, bases and color, all judged against your house, and then set at your entry. It takes about an hour and you don’t need to be home. The display is composed on site rather than set out plainly, which is the part of this that is design rather than delivery, and it is in every price. Curious what we choose from? The heirloom guide walks through the families.
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You settle the balance, and the porch is yours
The balance is settled before we arrive, so the day itself is just the porch getting done. From the moment it is installed the display is yours to enjoy and to look after. Book end-of-season removal when you book the display and we will come and clear it away in November.
The arrangement
One total, and when each half is due
The whole commercial arrangement fits in five lines. You see every one of them before you agree to anything.
| Your display | Ten, fifteen, or twenty and up |
| Price | $199 to $499, all-inclusive |
| Extra fees | None. Design, delivery and setup are in the price |
| Deposit | Half the total, and it holds your week |
| Balance | The other half, due before your install day |
No hourly rates, no per-pumpkin charges, nothing added after the fact. End-of-season removal is the one separate service, and only if you choose it. It shows on your total before you agree to anything.
Common questions
On pricing and design
Book your porch
Choose a display, add what you’d like, pick your week, and either book it on the spot or ask us first. Asking commits you to nothing.
A shop, a restaurant or an office instead? That is Pumpkin Means Business: the same pumpkins and the same all-in price, quoted after we come and look at the building. Any of the displays above can be booked by a business at its listed price; a quote is for the fronts that need more than the largest of them.