Tag Archives: curb appeal

4 Landscape Lighting Types

Outside lighting is one of the newest trends in curb appeal of a home. Once used for safety and security, landscape lighting now also serves to enhance your home. If you are ready to take on some landscape lightening, you’ll want to know all about the four most popular lighting types. Here they are. Tier Lighting Tier lighting usually contains multiple levels or pyramid shapes. Think of a small post that has a small hanging lantern from it. Tier lighting casts light over small areas and can be used for narrow paths and level walkways. They are usually available as … Continue reading →

Choosing Flowers for Your Window Box

A window box can add a great deal of curb appeal to your home and create a beautiful foreground when you gaze out of the window. Window boxes can really transform a plain window. In fact, that is what window boxes have been doing for centuries. Although window boxes are easy to install, you can truly make yours stand out from the crowd and the curb if you just know a few tricks. Here they are. For a window box that has dimension instead of looking flat, build the flowers up using a combination of three different heights and shapes. … Continue reading →

Picking Perennials

Spring is here and as the birds flock to our yards, we homeowners tend to flock to the garden centers and home improvement stores to pick up our colorful plants. Perennials are a great choice. Instead of going through the process of buying flats of flowers that die off at the end of the season, such as begonias, impatiens, geraniums and petunias, why not pick some perennials. These plants will come back year after year. This saves both time and money. Perennials may cost a little bit more than annuals when you purchase them, but unlike annuals, they will only … Continue reading →

Shutters Can Be More than Window Dressing 2

Did you know that today’s homeowners are going back to the basics of weather protection through the use of functional shutters? No longer just decorative, shutters can cut down on your heating costs, your cooling costs and even prevent your furniture from fading while letting in the light. This is part two of a two-part series. In the first part, I talked about different types of functional shutters that can be purchased for your home. The second way to take advantage of the benefits of functional shutters is to adapt standard decorative shutters into real working shutters. You can do … Continue reading →

Shutters Can Be More than Window Dressing

Back in the 19th century, shutters provided homeowners with a means of protection from the elements. From rain to wind and from sun to snow, shutters were a necessary part of a house. In the intervening time between then and now, shutters evolved into more of a decorative and visual role instead of a sturdy functional one. Shutters some in many different styles and designs and most of them are simply painted and then attached flat on either side of a window. Shutters can be more than window dressing. In fact, these days with everyone conscious of a growing problem … Continue reading →

What Is Hardscaping?

Here is another home-related question that came across my keyboard the other day. “I keep hearing the term “Hardscaping. What is that? Is it related to Landscaping?” Hardscaping is indeed a landscaping term. It is a division of landscaping that refers to the solid inanimate or non-living elements for landscaping, such as rocks, wood (not living trees), brick, concrete and more. it gets it name from the usually hard materials used in hardscaping projects. Typical hardscaping projects might include a brick walkway, a wooden deck or patio or a stone wall. It also refers to small objects, such as fountain … Continue reading →

Choosing a Garage Door

You might think that getting a new garage door would be easy, right? Well, there are plenty of choices these days, from material to style. Here are some tips on what is what and how to choose. The first thing you should determine when you are choosing a garage door is to select the material for the door. You can choose between wood or steel. Steel doors don’t require much maintenance, but you also can’t easily change the color. And your options in design can be more limited than in wood. If you want a carriage style door, you might … Continue reading →

All About House Numbers

Choosing and installing new house numbers can be a great idea for your home. New house numbers can really add to your home’s curb appeal. They may even make it a safer home, too. How? Well let’s say you needed emergency services; hopefully you never will. But if you do, easy to read house numbers will make it easier to find you. Here is what you should know about house numbers. Obviously, you want to choose a number that can be seen from the street. At the same time, you don’t want to overwhelm you house or your neighbors by … Continue reading →

Home Week in Review: August 27 – September 2

I hope you had a great week and I hope you are now enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Labor Day was designed to celebrate the individual, the worker, the laborer, the people who work hard to make the American dream a reality. So, enjoy yourself. You deserve long weekend. This week, in the Home Blog, we were inside and outside the home. We talked about phones, plants, safety, cleaning, air purification, and outdoor improvements, with articles on things like the pros and cons of trading a “landline” for a mobile phone and ways to add curb appeal. There was a … Continue reading →

Adding to Your Home’s Curb Appeal

Curb appeal is important even if you aren’t selling your home. It’s still the first impression people receive when they arrive. You want the yard and exterior to be inviting, either so guests will relax outdoors or feel welcome to come in. Here are some simple curb appeal solutions: Great Outdoor Seating Get rid of those old, webbed lawn chairs that you’ve had since you moved in or at the very least, save them for the beach. Pick up a couple of news chairs and a small table and put together a cozy little seating area. If you need to … Continue reading →