Top Ways to Boost Landscaping Curb Appeal

Whether you’re looking to sell your home or not, curb appeal has a big part to play in your home’s perceived and real value. If you’re hoping to enjoy a better looking home through landscaping, then you should know the most crucial elements of natural curb appeal.

Where to Start With a Landscaping Redesign

As White Rock’s premier landscaping designers, we have helped numerous local businesses and homeowners make a dramatic improvement on their overall landscaping through well-executed, customized design plans. Today, we’ll share some of the common elements we focus on, including:

Trees

Nothing quite has the curb appeal impact of mature trees. Now, of course, this doesn’t mean venerable, potentially hazardous, or property-damaging trees, but instead the more well-maintained, shade-providing type of mature trees. If your home currently doesn’t have any mature trees, don’t fret! The team at Fontana Ponds & Water Features can bring in mature trees that will be ready to add curb appeal on day one; if you have the opposite problem, then we can help to prune and maintain your existing trees.

Eye-Catching Elements

You can call it “The WOW Factor” or whatever else you like, but certain elements of landscaping represent your showstopping, unique portions of the design. For many, this means a pond or waterfall, while others achieve the same result with manicured bushes or raised flower beds. There is no one-size-fits-all answer, which is what makes landscaping design so important; it is our job to discover and implement those design elements that will make your home truly shine.

Patios and Walkways

While not necessarily a plant, the walkways and patio spaces that constitute your home’s outdoor space are just as important to your overall curb appeal and exterior value. If your patio features beautiful paving stones that match your garden walkway and retaining walls, you are going to have a far more eye-pleasing curb appeal than a neighbor that has 20-year old concrete with 20 years worth of cracks and damages on it, regardless of their plantlife.

Your Lawn

It is important that you never neglect your grass, as it is just as much a part of your landscape as the other elements. While your lawn acts mostly as the base upon which your other design elements will be observed, keeping it lush, green, well-trimmed, and artfully designed to accent your planters, trees, and other landscaping elements is crucial to an overall pleasant curb appeal. Of course, your lawn should be free of weeds and kept well-manicured at all times, if at all possible.

Out With the Old

Often, one of the biggest improvements to curb appeal is simply removing something that is obstructing the street view of your home or distracting people that visit from seeing the beauty around it. This could mean removing an ugly, thorny bush or trimming back that tree branch that blocks a third of your home’s face. Likewise, it could have nothing at all to do with plants; removing that ancient birdbath and your fading lawn gnomes is also a great place to start. Typically, we find that homeowners have become blind to the negative look of these curb appeal distractors.

Contact Fontana

At Fontana Ponds & Water Features, our entire team is committed to creating you a beautiful landscaping design that adds real value to your home. Whether you’re looking to improve your home’s curb appeal from the front or create a garden retreat in the backyard space, our team is prepared to provide you with a landscaping solution that fits.

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