Easy Inexpensive Curb Appeal Ideas

Giving your front yard an awesome makeover and increasing your home’s curb appeal is easier than you think, and you can do it on a budget. Get easy inexpensive curb appeal ideas in this Lowe’s video:

Your front yard is the first thing people see when they visit your home, and whether you’re trying to sell your house or you’re just someone who takes pride in beautiful landscaping, giving your front yard a makeover will create memorable impressions for your friends, neighbors and potential homebuyers. Here are the steps toward achieving awesome curb appeal:

1. Clean up your yard: Pick up trash, mow the grass, use a weed whacker around all of the structures in the yard, yank pesky weeds out of the ground, hide garden hoses by mounting them on your house or storing them on a reel, blow away all of the debris and pressure wash everything.

2. Dress up the windows with decorative window shutters. You can buy them or make them yourself.

3. Spruce up front porch columns by wrapping them with fresh lumber and adding dimension by capping the top and bottom.

4. Paint the front door and install new hardware. It’s the first thing people see when they walk into your home, so it needs to be inviting.

5. A brand new mailbox may not score you a ton of curb appeal points, but it’s a good-looking inexpensive upgrade that’s easy to install.

6. Add color and contrast to the front yard with annuals and mulch. Even if you don’t plant many plants, the mulch adds definition to the landscaping bed and makes it look complete. Online calculators can help you determine how much soil and mulch you will need for your garden and landscaping projects.

7. Reseed any bare spots in your lawn with an all-in-one grass seed/fertilizer/mulch mix that will grow just about anywhere. Loosen up the soil, spread out the seed mix and water it.

8. Apply a weed and feed mix with a handheld broadcast spreader, hitting any corner of the yard.

9. Complete the transformation with patio furniture and a new welcome mat.