need ideas for my boring home front.
Jon Terzini
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The front of my house is BORING!
Comments (3)As I was reading your post, I was thinking black too. Two houses ago, we transformed our exterior from all brown (yes even the trim) to a gray exterior, white trim, and black shutters. Very pretty combination. You said your windows are white. Do you mean the trim around them. Our windows were Anderson white vinyl clad wood windows. The black shutters really finished the house....See MoreI need ideas for landscaping the front of my small ranch home!!
Comments (3)Here are suggestions for a simple scheme that keeps some lawn. The first thing I would do, though, is bust out the end of the walk (where it meets porch) or maybe the whole walk, and redo it, adding space and width. A skinny walk with little space at the porch makes the whole house look cheaper. If breaking out and redoing is not possible, then find a way to patch on some extra space....See MoreIdeas for front house, I need change front house
Comments (3)In which part of the world are you located (country/nearest large city)? Landscaping the exterior would give you dimension to your home....See MoreFront of house is boring. I need some inspiration!
Comments (24)I'm in the midwest, and I added lots of flowering shrubs, evergreen shrubs, and semi-evergreen plants so that my mostly partial-shady lot looks good when everything else is brown in the late fall, non-snow-covered days in winter, and early spring. Unlike the previous two winters, this one has been light on snow. I love coming and going to the house from the mailbox by the street and seeing a variety of evergreen shrubs and trees of various types and sizes - yews (Capitata, emerald spreader, "traditional"), Canadian hemlocks, Siberian cypresses, azaleas & rhodies, and where I have more sun various lower mugo pines, spruces, arborvitaes and junipers. Actually, right now, the (confined) periwinkle, low azaleas, and hellebore leaves going up my front walk look almost as fresh as in the spring. In the spring I love watching the flowering shrubs come out, and in the fall those with leaves that turn are gorgeous. Once in a while we get deer here, so I do have roses, hostas and daylilies that sometimes get nibbled on in passing, but so far not destroyed. And interspersed among everything are peonies, coral bells, foamy bells, astilbes, wildflowers, dozens of clematis vines, and some other perennials. But I would never be without the beautiful shrubs! To choose the right plant for the right place, one year I did hourly sun charts once a month for lots of locations from spring to fall, so I'd know where to put what, and researched the plants I liked before buying any. Anne...See Morecyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
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