Curb appeal help and ideas
In the purchasing process of this home. The inside is really great. The outside needs a lot of help in the backyard and curb appeal in the front. The roof is about 6 years old, so it's staying. The stucco is staying but willing to change color. I'm thinking maybe build a new staircase wider. There is a nice size about 10 deep front porch. The home is in the southeast do think tropical, lots of rain and humidity. I'm pro palm trees tropical and not into banana trees tropical. Prefer something low maintenance and stays green year round. Also I like to have something blooming year round camilias, azaleas, gardenias, I like fruit trees as well. The back yard isn't very big (depth) and has a pool that has popped out of the ground. So it needs removed and either filled in or replaced. That's an entirely different project but the entire landscape budget with pool is $65k-$100k. The pool will obviously take most the budget. Just for reference there is a sidewalk up to the stairs from the driveway on the right side of the photo. Thank you for any help or ideas.
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Sigrid
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Need Curb Appeal, Please Help!!!! Any Ideas Welcome!
Comments (6)Landscaping will do a lot to improve the curb appeal. The beds by the front door aren't very deep, but you could do some beautiful accents in front of the garage windows and to the right of the home. I feel like the windows could use some trim or modern style shutters. Nice all brick home. Landscaping is the key....See MoreCul-de-sac landscaping help ( and curb appeal ideas)
Comments (6)I don't know Okanagan, so it is difficult to name a plant, but what you need is a lawn height groundcover to eat up a lot of the space. A very short groundcover will allow the more typical suburban layout and spatial feel of a lawn without the lawn. Examples are the groundcover junipers - deer no like...unless - and cotoneaster that are woody shrubs. You could also look for something in a creeping flowering perennial or vine suitable to your climate. In your second picture with the tall grasses in bloom I see two low oval shrubs, right front, back left, and a shorter grass. Another option is simply plant a whole lot more of those in bigger drifts to fill the space. Hopefully that is their mature heights by habit. That idea can be used though, fill the space with a limited pallet of very low growing perennial plants organized to taste....See MoreNeed your help with ideas for improving the curb appeal of our new hom
Comments (31)We are now ready for landscape design help. We have removed all of the shrubbery on the left side of the house. And all of the pavers have been moved to the backyard for future use. ( unless someone has an idea of how they could be used up front. Although I understand that a curved sidewalk would be an improvement over what we have, there is no budget for that right now. The plan is to resod in the spring. This is north facing, so very shady. I have so many design dilemmas! To the right of the front porch: If you look at the second and third pictures in my original post, you’ll see that the area to the right of the sidewalk is huge. I purchased a green Japanese maple ( smallish weeping Viridis) to put in there somewhere. Should I leave room for more grass on the right side of the side walk or just plant the whole thing? Also on the right side of the porch, there is only about 39” between the ground and the bottom of the windows. Need suggestions for what to plant there that wouldn’t need constant pruning ( don’t like gardenias because the brown flowers stay on the plant). If I plant low shrubs under the windows does everything else planted in there need to be as lower lower or can I punctuate with some taller shrubs as I get further out. Any suggestions for a mix of shrubs, or even forms, would be appreciated. To the left of the porch. If you refer to the first picture in this string, You’ll see that a very large bed of shrubbery was in front of the house. Once we cleared that out, there is now an extremely have extremely large area (about 28 feet from left to right and 36 feet from front to back.) . Because the house is small, I’m thinking of that bed somewhat narrower so that it isn’t so much in front of the house, but more to the side.I already purchased a Japanese stewartia to plant there ( sale at the nursery).Etsy sale I purchased 234 limelight hydrangeas. Also, to the left of the porch, there about 5 ft between the bottom of the window and the ground. Looking for suggestions on what to plant there. If I plant something different here than on the right side, would I want to somehow use some of the plants from the right side on this side as well to create balance? Any ideas for plantings in this area would be appreciated as well. I I did see some soft touch mahonia that I loved and wondered whether they would look good under the windows on the left, with maybe whatever we plant on the right side in front of those. Additionally, I would really appreciate suggestions for what to plant in that left corner. Thanks for your ideas!...See Moreplease help me add some curb appeal to our home!! Any ideas welcome
Comments (0)Need ideas for curb appeal! Brick? Flower boxes? Shrubs? Door color? Thank you!!...See More
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cecily 7A
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8 months agolast modified: 8 months agoA lot of houses have stairs to the front door...for many reasons. We do at our house. But I think the idea was to rebuild them at a gentler angle with broader treads. Or maybe a nice ADA ramp for wheeling stuff. We have considered a ramp. Just a concept here but better than an elevator:
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