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Last updated: November 14, 2026

What Yard Flag sells

Yard Flag is a small online shop for the front step. We sell seasonal garden flags and house flags, doormats, porch leaner signs and a short list of matching gifts: two throw pillows, a round door hanger, a mug and a mailbox cover. The whole range is 20 products. There are no T-shirts, no hoodies and no wall art for the living room. Everything here is meant to sit between the street and your front door.

Ten of the twenty products are flags. Cardinal on Evergreen and Christmas Porch Lantern cover the cold months. Robin’s Nest and Tulip Row are for spring. Stars and Bunting is the summer flag that goes up for the Fourth of July. Sunflower Rows carries late summer, Harvest Pumpkin and Porch-light Jack-o’-Lantern carry the fall, and Plain Welcome Stripe is the quiet flag for the weeks that belong to no holiday at all. The tenth, the Family Name Welcome Flag, carries your last name and an optional “Est.” year.

Three products are doormats: Snowfall Welcome, Falling Leaves and the Family Name Doormat. The rest are porch signs and decor: the Harvest Porch Leaner Sign, the Family Name Porch Leaner Sign, the Spring Garden Round Door Hanger, the Cardinal Winter Throw Pillow, the Lemon Summer Throw Pillow, the Swap Day Mug and the Family Name Mailbox Cover. You can browse all of it on the shop page, or start from a season.

We do not tell you a founding story, a year we opened, or the names of people behind the counter, because none of that helps you choose a flag. What helps is knowing exactly what arrives in the box, how big it is, what side it prints on and when it is worth hanging. That is what this page covers.

The swap calendar: what goes up next, and when

Most flag shops sell you one flag and leave the rest to you. Then March comes, the cardinal is still out by the mailbox, and the neighbours already have tulips. Yard Flag is built around a different question: not “which flag do you like?” but “what goes up next on your front step, and when do you swap it out?”

On the homepage, the swap ring draws the year as a circle of swap days. Two cards sit beside it. “Up now” shows the season your front step is in today, worked out from today’s date. “Up next” shows the season that follows and roughly when it starts. Each card links straight to that season’s flag, mat and sign, so you can dress the whole step at once or just change the flag.

The calendar is a rhythm, not a rule. Nobody checks whether your harvest flag went up on the first of September. It is simply the order most porches follow in the north, written down so you can plan a season ahead instead of a week late.

A Canadian buyer will notice one thing straight away: Canadian Thanksgiving falls in October, not late November. The harvest flag still works; you simply swap to Christmas a few weeks earlier than your American neighbours, or leave the plain welcome flag up for the gap. The calendar bends to your street, not the other way round.

North or South: the toggle for Australia and New Zealand

We ship to four countries, and two of them live in the other half of the year. In Australia and New Zealand, spring starts in September and Christmas falls in summer. A snowy cardinal flag in December would look strange on a porch in Brisbane or Auckland. So the swap ring has a North / South toggle: two buttons, nothing to type.

North means the United States and Canada. South means Australia and New Zealand, where the seasons are the other way round. Press South and the ring turns: the “Up now” and “Up next” cards follow the southern seasons instead. Your choice is remembered in your own browser only, using its local storage. It is never sent to us, and it is gone if you clear your browser data.

Here is how that plays out. A buyer in Auckland wants a summer flag for December. In the north, December is Christmas lantern and cardinal season, and an ordinary shop would push those. With the toggle on South, the ring shows summer as “Up now” or “Up next”, and the summer card points to sunny designs such as the Lemon Summer Throw Pillow and the Sunflower Rows flag. If they want a Christmas flag too, the Christmas Porch Lantern works on a warm porch; we just never describe it as snowy weather for a southern reader.

Flag only, printed on one side

Two facts apply to every flag in the shop, and we would rather you read them here than discover them on your front lawn.

No stand, pole or bracket in the box

Every flag is sold flag only. No flag stand, no garden pole, no porch bracket, no house pole, no rubber stopper and no anti-wind clip is included, and we do not sell any of them. If you already have a garden stand by the walkway or a bracket beside the door, you are set. If not, you will need to buy one elsewhere before the flag can go up. Product titles and size options say “flag only” so nobody is surprised.

Printed on one side, showing through on the back

Each flag is printed on one side. The design shows through in reverse on the back, the way a window decal looks from inside the glass. Hang it so the printed face looks toward the street, or toward the path where most people walk up. The words on the back will read backwards. That is how these flags are made, and we describe them that way on every product page. The homepage flip cards show the front, and then the back as the street sees it, so you can judge it before you order.

True size, drawn beside a door

Flag sizes are easy to misjudge on a screen. A garden flag is about 12 x 18 in: about the size of a large magazine opened flat, standing upright on a short stand in a planter or by the path. A house flag is about 28 x 40 in: big enough to read from the street, and made for a pole that sits in a bracket on the porch post or the wall beside the door. The house flag adds $14 to the price of the same design. The exact inches of the blanks are still being confirmed, which is why we always say “about”.

The closing section of the homepage, the true-size guide, draws both flags beside a front door at the same scale so you can see the difference. It exists because of one very common mistake: someone orders a garden flag, then walks out to a porch bracket that is waiting for a house flag. The flag is not wrong; it is simply the wrong size for that hardware. Measure what you already own before you choose, and the size guide walks you through it.

Other sizes, for reference: doormats are about 24 x 16 in, smaller than many store-bought mats, and best on a covered step. Porch leaner signs come 4 ft or 5 ft tall (5 ft adds $10). Throw pillows come 16 x 16 in or 18 x 18 in. The mug comes in 11 oz or 15 oz. The door hanger and mailbox cover come in one size each; their exact dimensions are being confirmed.

Family names, written the plural way

Four products carry your family name: the Family Name Welcome Flag, the Family Name Doormat, the Family Name Porch Leaner Sign and the Family Name Mailbox Cover. Each has a family name field (up to 18 characters, required) and an optional “Est.” year (four digits). The mailbox cover also takes an optional house number of up to 6 characters.

As you type, a live preview on the product page shows the lines exactly as they will be printed. The same text then appears in the cart, at checkout and in your order email. We print exactly what is typed: spelling, capitals and punctuation. No proof or mockup is sent before production, so the preview is your proof.

The one thing we see trip people up is the apostrophe. A plural family name never needs one. Add -s for most names: The Millers, The Garcias, The Nguyens. Add -es after s, x, z, ch or sh: The Joneses, The Foxes, The Churches. An apostrophe means “belonging to”, so “The Miller’s” reads as “belonging to The Miller”. The homepage has a short plural surname guide with the same examples. These are formatting hints only; the names you see in our photos and previews are fictional.

What we stand behind, in numbers

We keep a short list of numbers and use the same ones on every page of this site.

• Your order takes 1-3 business days to make, then spends 7-14 business days in transit to the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Shipping is free with no minimum. Orders ship from the USA, and we do not sell or ship to other countries. Details are on Shipping & Delivery.
• You can cancel or change an order within 24 hours of placing it. See Cancel or Change an Order.
• Returns are open for 60 days from delivery, including personalised items. For a change-of-mind return we pay the return postage with a free return label. Your refund is sent within 7 days of receiving the return. See the Returns & Exchanges Policy and the Refund Policy.
• Support replies within 24 hours on business days, by email.
• Store credit never expires.

We do not promise delivery by a holiday, and we do not publish “order by” dates. What we can do is show you how to count: 1-3 business days to make plus 7-14 business days in transit means allowing up to 17 business days before the week you want the flag up. That is an estimate from our stated times, not a guarantee.

A few things we have not written down yet, and will not guess at: the material of each flag, mat, sign, pillow, mug and mailbox cover, the print method, and whether the pillows come with an insert. Material details are being confirmed; if one of them decides your order, email us and ask before you buy.

What we will not claim

Flags and mats live outside, and outside is hard on everything. We do not call any product fade-proof, all-weather or long-lasting, and we do not say a design meets the flag rules of any particular community; those rules differ from street to street, so check with yours. Our care advice is plain: bring flags in when it storms, let them dry before you fold them, and put doormats on a covered step. A flag that faces the south side in full afternoon sun will show it sooner than one in the shade.

Our patriotic designs are original stars-and-stripes art. We do not print team names, league logos, film characters or military emblems, and we do not put a surname over a national flag.

Where to go from here

If you know the season you are dressing for, start with a category: Garden & House Flags, Doormats or Porch Signs & Decor. If you have a question before you order, the FAQs and the Help Center answer most of them. If you need a person, the Contact Us page explains how to reach us and what to include.

Who we are and how to reach us

Yard Flag, 1017 Evening Star Dr, Roaming Shores, OH 44085, US.

We work by email only: support@yardflag.shop. There is no phone line and no live chat. Write to us with your order number if you have one, and we reply within 24 hours on business days.