When you pull up to your home every evening after work what is your first thought? Do you think it looks so great that you wouldn’t change a thing? Or do you think that it could use a bit of work to increase the all important curb appeal?
Increasing your home’s curb appeal is a great way to boost the value of your home, and there are a number of low cost home improvement options available to do so. It doesn’t necessarily take an entire re-siding or landscape makeover to give your home a sharp new look.
- There are a variety of affordable landscaping options available to beautify your home. Sometimes just a few wisely placed shrubberies or climbing vines can give your house a bit of much needed character. Or invest in a window box and fill it with colorful flowers to accent your exterior. If you have a driveway or path leading to your front door something as simple as a small quaint fence or line of shrubs or flowers can provide some colorful symmetry to your lawn.
- Your mailbox is one of the first things people see when they look at your home. Mailboxes also tend to take a beating over the year between the rain, snow, and sun. Giving your mailbox a makeover is always a quick and easy way to increase your home’s curb appeal. Another option is building a permanent brick or stone mailbox for a longer term, lower future maintenance solution.
- Consider upgrading or adding additional lights by your front door, along your front door path, or lining your driveway. A few careful positioned path lights can provide an enchanting bit of lighting at night, improve visibility for safety, and are an especially affordable option to endow your home with some additional curb appeal.
- Your windows are an especially noticeable part of your home’s exterior visual appearance. In Remodeling magazine’s 2010-2011 Cost vs. Value report they ranked window replacement as one of the best and most affordable home improvement projects. Replacing your windows with low-maintenance energy saving windows from Renewal by Andersen has the added benefit of saving you money on your energy bills!
It used to take a lot of work to keep windows looking great. They would require regular scrapings and repainting just to keep windows looking adequately decent. Renewal by Andersen’s Fibrex® framing material take little to no maintenance by comparison, and will keep your windows looking great for years.
If you are thinking about selling your home in the near future new windows from Renewal by Andersen is like giving your home a curb appeal booster shot. Having low-e energy efficient windows will also increase the value of your property thanks to the added insulation and energy savings!
