Home Prep for Success: Landscaping Projects That Boost Curb Appeal

CURB APPEAL TIPS AND TRICKS: LANDSCAPING

Looking to make your home’s exterior shine before it hits the market? These curb appeal tips and tricks can help you make a powerful first impression:

• Planting colorful flowers and leafy shrubs along your home’s walkway or foundation can add color and texture to your landscape. In-season annuals are an inexpensive option that can give a burst of color and look especially welcoming.

• Weed your beds thoroughly and often, and add mulch to your flower beds to help retain moisture and prevent weed growth. Even tidy and trimmed landscaping can look messy with wily, weedy beds.

• Trim overgrown bushes and trees. No matter how inviting you find ivy or how much you adore your azaleas, remember that to an outsider, too much unruly green can look like disrepair.

• Replace shrubs that are dead and dying - they are curb appeal killers. No matter how well-manicured and perfectly planned your landscaping looks, that one brown, sad-looking shrub or plant will be the first thing onlookers notice. Even a bare spot in the plan is better than a skeletal shrub sticking out.

• Keep your lawn fertilized and well trimmed. Fill in bare lawn areas and keep your grass trimmed and edged to make your yard a mean, green, curb appeal machine.

You only get one crack at making a great first impression for buyers, and it boils down to one thing: curb appeal.