When a prospective buyer or realtor® sees your home for the first time they immediately form an opinion about your house. The very first thing they notice is curb appeal. They notice the house and the landscaping around the house, particularly at the entry area. You can have an absolutely beautiful home, but if they don't get a good positive feeling the minute they lay their eyes on the property, they are going to enter and look at the rest of the house with a negative feeling.
Many things go into getting the best price for your home when selling, but the very first thing is curb appeal. Effective landscaping has the potential for increasing the value of a home anywhere from 7-15%, according to sources listing by the American Nursery & Landscape Association.It may mean something as simple as removing some overgrown trees, evergreens, or shrubs at the front door to increase the entryway visibility, re-establishing the planting bed lines in the front of the house, or simply adding some brightly colored perennials or annuals to increase attention.
If you're planning on placing your home on the market and would like to improve the curb appeal, I'd be happy to set up an appointment to come out to your property and assess your current plantings. We can put together a plan that you can do yourself or I can refer you to a local landscaping firm for installation.
Full Site Landscape Design Plans
Once you've moved into your new home and are interested in re-thinking your existing landscape, please give me a call and I'd be glad to come out and walk the grounds with you. We can talk about the ideas you'd like to see implemented and blend them with some new creative ideas.
In the course of working with you, we'll want to address the following points:
- Put together an overall effective plan that can be implemented over a period of time if desired
- Incorporate sufficient color and interest during all the seasons of the year
- Keep in mind functional and recreational needs for your yard
- Look at what existing elements are in your yard and what will be retained and what might be removed to work with a new landscape plan
- Study the topography, sun and/or shade exposures, and wet and/or dry locations that may pose challenges to the selection of appropriate plant material
- Look at the grade of the soil around the house to make sure it is appropriately pitched away from the foundation areas prior to any further plantings
Once we've put together a plan, I'd be happy to give you some advice and tips on how to install the plantings yourself or refer you to a local landscaping firm for installation.
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