Need Curb Appeal Ideas please!
Bought this house recently. It’s about three years old, Found that pressure treated wood cannot be painted. Wished to remove railings and replace with white PCV and aluminum type and flesh out support posts by white PVC system that has spacers to make the posts more traditional. but no go due to store closures here due to Covid19 restrictions for the next month or more. So now we are thinking just to keep the pressure treated verandah as is, stain it and just paint the front door frames white and paint the front door a soft powder blue tone. What colour stain should I use or does anyone have better ideas how to add curb appeal to this drab looking verandah? Also...we are intending to screen in the porch on the far left which faces south as a respite from bugs. The front of the house badly needs landscaping but we have tons of deer here and rabbits so don’t know what to plant so it all doesn’t get eaten. Plus the porch will have wicker chairs, table and a decorative carpet on it and potted flowers. Thank you!
Arggghhh...Icloud is on the fritz...says I have no photos or I would post more. I’ll try to add more later.
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Comments (6)I like the idea of the porch, but not that particular design. Part of the problem is the driveway goes right up to the house....makes it look too sterile and commercial. More green space with bigger shrubs in front of the house would help a lot. Maybe some hydrangeas? Window boxes would help a lot. The color is at once too dark and too light. If the logs were bigger and darker the log cabin look could work, if it were much lighter colored it would be cheerier. Also, the house and garage almost but don't quite match. Maybe paint it a redwood color, with a less neutral colored garage door? I recognize the instinct is to hide the garage door, but the garage door is too big to hide, and the attempt makes it look like a commercial building. A garage door with some trim or windows would make it look less commercial...perhaps red or green....See MoreAdding curb appeal. Ideas for front yard landscape please!
Comments (6)You have a nice wide path to the door. My first reaction was to think of what not to do. I have often seen in gardens like this a barricade of plants hiding access to the stairs. Like below. I have a personal dislike for this type of landscaping. Do you like gardening and how much time do you want to spend maintaining it? I see shade from what I presume is a tree. Could you post a photo that shows the tree? What is the tree off the left corner? As to the house, it is very nice and does not need to change. If you want to try something different you could paint the door a color and paint the garage doors a khaki or beige to make them less prominent....See MoreHelp Please! Curb Appeal and Landscape Ideas Needed
Comments (3)I knew they'd chime in...listen to them, they're golden!...See MoreNeed ideas for to hide Hvac ducts, ideas for paint colors, curb appeal
Comments (10)I think some kind of trellis or screening structure near the HVAC equipment or at the front edge of the roof as others suggested, could obscure the view. This is required in my area for commercial buildings with rooftop equipment. . In the "improve curb appeal" area, I think a lot can be done with your front yard. The side photo showing a glimpse of the neighbor's iron fence shows a walkway, a green shrub, and some grass. Your front yard could use some attractive landscaping. Or, if time or money is limited, put in some hard scaping - cover the dead lawn with a rock or gravel pattern and have an interesting center piece or two in the middle. Just something to make it look not-abandoned. Also, I think what looks like a chain-link gate to the left of the garage could be spruced up. Compare how it looks to the neighbor's redwood (?) or redwood colored wood fence on the other side of the yard. The wood fence looks attractive, the chain link gate looks scruffy. Good luck....See MoreEm Bee
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3 years agoIt would be great to be maintenance free, but I cannot see houses online that are grey blue sided with stained verandahs. Will that look okay?
Below this photo of the way my front door looks currently is the blue door paint colour I want to do with white trim.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoFor what it is worth I think your house is quite nice as is and that your choice of a new door color is lovely.
I do think you need a path to the front door. If I didn’t mind spending the money (and if it fit in with the neighborhood), I would probably create a rather large square “landing” with some kind of informal stone work, and drift a path in the direction of your garage. If that’s too expensive, I think you can drift a path up to your front steps with random flat stones, one that isn’t as wide as your steps, and soften the edges with plantings.
Were it my house I would put flower baskets all along the railings. I think there are some pretty plants you can have in there that deer won’t stand on their hind legs to eat.
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When I lived in a snowy climate with plenty of deer around they didn’t eat my foundation plants which were flowering laurel and hydrangea. I also had forsythia, Japanese maple, shad bush and a climbing rose they left alone.Em Bee thanked User
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI would use deer and rabbits resistant plants, flower baskets.
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