7 Ways to Spice Up Your Home’s Spring Curb Appeal Faster Than a Tulip Blooms
Key Points:
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Minimalism is the New Black:
Throwing out half your garden gnomes isn’t a sign of a mid-life crisis, it apparently just means you’re fashionable. Tuck away yard decorations for a cleaner, minimalist aesthetic to enhance curb appeal. Keep to a “less is more” attitude, folks!
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Color is Your Friend, not Your Frenemy:
Add some personality with a splash of color, especially with flowering plants. Remember, your front lawn should not resemble a goth teenager’s bedroom; shades of lifeless gray are not in this season.
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Grazing in the Grass is a Gas, Baby:
Like a good haircut, a well-maintained lawn can drastically change one’s appearance. Get your lawn in top shape by mowing and watering regularly, because nobody wants their home’s ‘do to look like a crazed shaggy dog.
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The Path Less Traveled Still Needs Grooming:
Pathways and driveways are the estate equivalent of crow’s feet – they show a home’s age. Pressure wash or reseal to erase those years and get your home’s face-lifted without any botox.
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Lights, Camera, Action:
Illuminate the pathway to your abode with some ambient or landscape lighting – because nothing says ‘celebrity mansion’ like a well-lit driveway.
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Your Property Needs to Hit the Gym:
Trim bushes, trees, and other overgrown plants. Tighten up and tone that greenery for a chiseled property look that’ll make a bodybuilder blush.
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Mailbox Makeover:
A spruced up mailbox makes delivering bills less sour and more sweet. Blend it with the house’s exterior color or go bold and add numbers for a stylish, utilitarian touch.
Hot Take:
Giving your house the spring revamp it deserves doesn’t necessarily equate to calling in a crew that looks like they walked straight out of an HGTV episode. Sometimes, it’s as simple as swapping a puny planter for a vibrant vernal vase, or giving that driveway some scrub-loving care it’s been guilt-tripping you about.
Marie Kondo would be proud of you for decluttering the lawn and making space for zen. After all, minimalism is in, clutter is out. So why not allow your front yard to document its glow up, and silently, humbly, scream, “Look at me, world! I’m more organized than my owner’s work desk!”?
Color can be just as friendly on the outside as it is on the inside. Remind your neighborhood rainbow of its existence by pulling a Picasso on your property with varicolored flowers. A greener lawn and chiseled bushes can also ensure that your house isn’t mistaken for a haunted one from a Goosebumps novel.
In the end, while the world is busy adjusting the brightness of their screens, let them marvel at the sheer brilliance of your well-lit property. Sprucing up isn’t just for the humans of the house; let the mail carrier swoon over a stylish and utilitarian mailbox.
After all, like they say, it’s all about the curb appeal, darling!
Keep it snazzy, homie! In the end, it’s a win-win: you get a spring-cleaned home that could seduce any buyer, and your house gets to show off its hot new ‘look at me, I’m fabulous’ spring look!
Original article: https://www.redfin.com/blog/spring-curb-appeal/
