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Easy Ways to Add Curb Appeal to Your Home

Tom Ireland • October 25, 2016

Potential buyers need to be wowed by your home from the very first sight, and you should be doing everything you can to maximize the chances of that. The post Easy Ways to Add Curb Appeal to Your Home appeared first on Andy Schildhorn, PREC.

Despite advice to the contrary, we do tend to judge books by their covers. First impressions are paramount, and when it comes to homes, that first impression is summed up as curb appeal. Potential buyers need to be wowed by your home from the very first sight, and you should be doing everything you can to maximize the chances of that. Here are some relatively easy way’s to add to your home’s curb appeal:

  1. Repaint your front door.
  2. Get a new welcome mat.
  3. Get a new house number plaque or sign.
  4. Do some work on the flower beds in your yard.
  5. Get a new mailbox.
  6. Wash your windows and add some plants in window boxes.
  7. Repaint your garage door and get new handles.
  8. Buy new garden/porch furniture.
  9. Add shutters to your windows.
  10. Add decorative lighting to your home’s exterior.
  11. Paint or refurbish your front step(s).
  12. Add some potted plants to your front steps or porch.
  13. Plant some flowers around your mailbox.

Get more detailed advice on each of these ideas by clicking here.

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