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Are there any websites that do free renderings or design ideas to improve the curb appeal of your house? I’m good at interior design but am stuck with what yo do with my plain boring ranch to up the curb appeal.
Just search the Internet or drive around the neighborhood and find a look you like.
If you like those colors copy those. If you like the look but prefer other colors, choose colors you prefer.
If you like the porch of one house and the shutters of another, use those ideas.
There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
Besides, are you talking just landscaping curb appeal?
Or you want to change the window trim? the front door? The house and trim color?
I don’t know of one, but there are probably books on the subject and there are certainly a lot of TV shows. Home Town is one that frequently changes the front of houses by adding or eliminating porches, or removing inappropriate features.
Heres my $.02. Respect the bones of your house. You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. You can’t, for example, put “gingerbread” trim on a brick ranch and make it Victorian, and please, for the love of god, don’t put up plastic things next to your windows and call them shutters.
If you could post a picture of your house, there are some very talented people on here who would make suggestions.
We tried for years to improve the curb appeal of our home with some amount of success. But always felt like we were missing the mark.
Then talked with several landscape designers, looked at some of the yards each designed, and hired one.
His design included mounded beds, low stone retaining walls, and drainage that ended in a rain garden. Unless we get over an inch of rain in a day, it all stays in our yard. There's a flagstone patio surrounded by tall evergreens that flower in the spring, etc. He installed the stones, paths, trees, and major shrubs. We've enjoyed planting out the rest.
Not only did the curb appeal go way up, we are enjoying it more.
And for God's sake don't follow the current fad and rush to paint all your brick white and all your trim black.
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