help with curb appeal landscape ideas
Freeat45
5 years ago
hello friends
I hoping folks here can help me come up with some ideas to enchance my curb appeal.
I live in a development where most of the houses look the same.
I am looking to stand out from the rest of the cookie cutter neighborhood/house's.
thanks
I hoping folks here can help me come up with some ideas to enchance my curb appeal.
I live in a development where most of the houses look the same.
I am looking to stand out from the rest of the cookie cutter neighborhood/house's.
thanks
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Curb Appeal - Landscaping Ideas
Comments (3)OK. Do a search of this forum for "blank Slate", "foundation plantings", "front yard", "curb appeal", and "how to start". You definitely need some landscaping. What kind depends on a lot of things, and more information is needed. What zone are you in? Which direction does your house face? Do you have any knowledge of plants and gardening? What do you want the front landscaping to do for you besides look nice? Are the walks and parking areas sufficient, convenient, and/or attractive or do you need to re-think your hardscaping? Do you need shade in the front of the house? Do you plan on planting any perennials, or are you looking for shrubs and trees only? Will you use the front yard for anything besides coming and going and looking at? Read through other people's front yard questions to get a feel for what you need to consider, find out what you need to learn in order to do it yourself and do a decent job, or determine that you need to hire a professional to help you create an appropriate landscape design and/or install it. You may get some suggestions here on what might look good, but unless you plan on learning enough to be able to sort through those suggestions and keep just the ones that work for you and can be accomodated in the same design, you may just end up very confused....See MoreLandscaping ideas and Curb Appeal
Comments (1)Schris- MI zone 5? Me too. I can see a rose of sharon bush between the bay window and the little one to the left. Under the bay, some miniature fragrant bushes-Miss Kim lilacs maybe- would only grow about 4' high and could be pruned to stay under the window. If fragrance isn't important, another idea would be barberry bushes. They would add color during our long winters and can be pruned into behaving under the window. The white stones would be a nice contrast to the red of the barberry. On the garage side of the porch maybe something evergreen-dwarf alberta spruce or golden tipped boxwood? Be sure to allow for spread of each and then you still have the ability to plant annuals for a splash of color in front of the bushes each year. Just a couple of ideas- MM...See MoreHELP! Need landscaping or other ideas to improve our curb appeal.
Comments (14)Appreciate all this feedback as our house has been a work in progress for last 15yrs. Was an ugly orange one-tone brick that we painted when purchased and repainted about 3yrs ago off-white with same color trim. There were sage green shutters on all the windows that were rotted and removed. We couldn’t afford to replace at the time. Should we add them back in updated style? We put a new roof on last year and went with brown tones. I like the idea of a darker trim color and maybe even a dark gutters. We’ve struggled with the lawn due to heavy shade and drainage issues. Our House sits below street level on the right side. Two years ago we removed one lg oak that was also on the right-side and limbed up all the other tree. We are considering sodding the entire front yard and tearing out the front walkway to the street we don’t really use it-we live on a really busy street. We moved our mailbox to the side street years ago and added a friends entrance w/porch with a walkway from the street. If we tear out the walkway from street straight to the front door we would replace it with a walkway from the friends entry porch around The house to the front door In front of a landscaped bed along the front foundation. I would say that I’m looking for an overall cottage-look. Im a very visual person so your drawings and pics are VERY helpful!...See Morehelp! landscape ideas for curb appeal and front entry steps
Comments (5)Missing still are large chunks of the view that are important to the yard. You are not capturing the problem with steps in the photos. (They look like some kind of stained, textured concrete.) I would not have necessarily added them like that. But they are there so I wouldn't necessarily remove them. If your drive is too steep to walk on comfortably, the steps are probably actually useful. If they need a handrail is better judged on site, as photos can be very misleading about grade. It looks like the grass could stand being fertilized, watered and mowed regularly....See More
Judy Mishkin
5 years ago
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5 years agoAgreed. No one loves to cut and kill trees, especially when they are nice looking in and of themselves. But here, those crapes could not be in more visually destructive positions relative to to the architectural features of your home ... as well as being planted way to close to the wall for something so large. If you want curb appeal, there is no way to get it with the crapes where they are.
Another major part of curb appeal is not just having an entrance, but an attractive, visible way to access it. Here, there is barely a stoop. Almost invisible it the walk to it and a landing. All these things should be increased in size so they are not only visible, but functional ... as in two people could walk side by side to the front door. Right now it can't be done. You might could just expand the existing walk, stoop and landing. Or it might be better to redo the walk on account of it being close to the house and impeding space for proper foundation plantings. The picture is not dealing with anything other than tree location and walk.
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