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Simple Landscaping Ideas for Curb Appeal

Improving and maintaining your front yard is a good place to start when you want to enhance the value and beauty of your home. A few simple landscaping ideas can improve property values, contribute to neighborhood ecology, and put your home on the map.

Simple Landscaping Ideas

Landscaping is part art form and part professional skill. Many states have licensed landscape contractors who work with a variety of other simple landscaping ideas professionals to achieve eye-popping curb appeal. This can be an expensive prospect. But you don’t need to be rich or an expert to achieve great results andscaping ideas

Just keep a few landscape ideas in mind. Start with some easy tasks. Repair any cracks in the driveway, thoroughly wash the front walls and porch, repair and clean windows and lights. Your lawn is probably the most costly and time consuming portion of yard maintenance. Keeping it weeded, mowed and fee of debris can instantly enhance your curb appeal with little expense.

Take it a step further: cut down on the size of your lawn to maximize the appeal of what’s left. Cover a section with evergreen ground cover like ivy, Pachysandra or Periwinkle. Think about adding a stone walkway, plant some heat tolerant shrubs or a tree. Compare other trees in your neighborhood for size and breed for best results.

Natural Focal Point

The front door is a natural focal point. Something as simple as painting it a new color can immediately add accent. Try repainting the trim and shutters also, for another cost effective, easy enhancement. Next add potted plants or shrubs around the door, or flower boxes under the windows.

Adding greenery necessitates a reliable water source. Take a look at your gutters. Are they overstuffed and/or deteriorating? A wonderful way to both enhance the curb appeal of your house and reuse natural rainwater is to take advantage of rain chains. Replacing existing gutters with these artistic downspouts allows you to redistribute rainwater to your flowers and plants.

Rain chains channel water runoff through tumbling waterfalls, and can be combined with rainwater harvesting systems to reuse water. This mitigates the effects of urban runoff and reduces the burden on your water bill. And it all adds up to stunning curb appeal.

March 25, 2013 Miracle

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Curb Appeal Landscaping – Enhancements Using Landscape Designs

Curb appeal enhancements provide aesthetically pleasing attractiveness to the exterior of either a residential or commercial property. Whether you plan to sell or stay in your home, curb appeal is an important element when considering a return on investment.

Curb Appeal Landscaping

If you are considering a move, completing minimal improvements to entice a potential buyer is worth the investment “first impressions are lasting impressions”. Home buyers often decide whether or not to look inside a home based on its curb appeal. At Todd’s Services (TSI), we can assist in the improvement process by offering a consultation outlining a selection of options to meet your goals.

For instance, there are times that adding elements to your landscaping can improve curb appeal, but there are other times when removing something is even more effective. Whether the option is to dress up an area with plantings, rebuild a patio area or remove overgrown landscaping, we will meet your objective professionally.

Based on housing market conditions in Michigan, the local area is currently experiencing a growing trend of many homeowners electing to stay in their homes and invest in major updates and renovations, which often includes curb appeal enhancements instead of relocating. TSI has been in business for more than 30 years and has experienced a surge in return customers seeking to renew and modernize their existing landscape designs.

As a full service landscape business we will design and implement the entire landscaping project focusing on customer input and satisfaction. The scale of the project can be minimal to satisfy an improvement to a focused area such as an entry way or the project can be designed for a complete exterior makeover, completed in phases at the customer’s discretion. A brief selection of options may include:

Planting Packages

>Achieving curb appeal for all four seasons begins with a plant selection plan that will provide something to catch the eye in each of the four seasons. The goal is to have flowering trees throughout spring and summer, fall foliage in autumn and good structure in winter.
Hardscape themes both from practical (low maintenance) and aesthetic (curb appeal) standpoints.

>Choices may include brick paver and/or stamped concrete selections, wood or composite decking options, retaining walls of stone, brick or lumber, inclusion of an outdoor fireplace and/or kitchen.

Focal points throughout the property perfectly scaled to the space.
>>Strategic placement of low voltage lighting along your driveway, sidewalks and near important landscaping elements will enhance the curb appeal. TSI has an extensive selection of outdoor lighting options available.

>Placement of outdoor structures such as a pergola, gazebo or sitting walls accompanied with lighted columns can provide a sitting area focal point.

Lawn restoration and installation of irrigation systems.

>Looking to enhance the lushness of your lawn? TSI field personnel are experienced and provide excellent workmanship to condition a lawn to the highest quality. Highly reputable materials and products coupled with the current industry technology promote optimal irrigation system performance.

There are a number of avenues you can take to improve your residential or commercial property. Enhance your curb appeals and increase the ROI through creative landscaping design and installation.…

April 15, 2011 Miracle

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