The term ‘kerb appeal’ refers to the attractiveness of the external appearance of a house and how the house looks when viewed from the street or road that it lives on. This means your front garden needs to look great to entice buyers, here are some ideas!
Borders
Bordering is a popular gardening technique used mostly in back gardens, but adding borders to the flower beds, pebbles, and pathways of your front garden enhances and refines your home’s entryway and driveway. Make your home’s entrance neat with some smart edging and uniformly spaced box balls. Cover your soil in a myriad of pebbles and stones to make the space appear wider than it is.
Add a centrepiece
If you have a square patch of lawn in your front garden, creating a raised centrepiece will make your home unforgettable, as doing this adds a focal point and something interesting to look at. You can achieve this look by filling a wooden edged centre circle with bright, colourful flowers. Other great centrepieces include bird baths, small trees, cottage-style filled wheelbarrows and mini water features.
Section off the space
Most prospective buyers will find appeal in privacy and fencing or hedging the borders of your garden will give your home an impression of seclusion and security. To ensure passers-by can still admire your house, consider swapping out your wooden panels for an elegant wrought-iron fence for a touch of class.
Pave a pathway
Make an entrance with an enticing path that leads you to your front door. Simple bricks, wood, pebbles, or gravel can be as impactful as high-end materials, so long as they’re placed with care and precision. Embellish with pots and flowers in the corners, curb the path with stones, plant turf grass to define the edges, or shrubs for a stunning garden pathway.
Deck a porch
Decking is a unique way to add character to your front garden. Adding a raised decking area with a bench or a porch swing ties your entrance together with a quintessentially American style, which translates to be warm and welcoming. Tie the whole look together by adding rattan furniture and a cosy outdoor rug to inspire others on how to use the space.
Cottage inspiration
Cottage gardens are popular for their sylvan stone and plank pathways, blooming flowers, and endearing picket fences. Set your house apart from the rest with a front garden that embraces nature’s serenity by adding natural water features, beds of fresh, romantic flowers, and encouraging climbing plants to seamlessly blend the building to its surroundings.
Window boxes and hanging baskets
Draw visitors’ eyes to your house by adding the simple finishing touch of hanging flowers to your front garden. Window boxes and hanging baskets are perfect for paved or pebbled gardens to balance out modern life with a sprinkle of nature. If you find bold colours off-putting, place evergreens at the forefront of your planters and integrate a bright plant or two behind for a subtle pop of colour and that added joy.
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