http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007082001?OpenDocument This article from REALTOR(R) Magazine’s online version states that good landscaping can impact your home sale price anywhere from 7-15% depending on who you’re talking to and the location and type of landscaping for your property. At Team Reba we’ve been helping clients with services such as landscaping for several years now. A few of the before and after photos we’ve taken are shown below so you can see the difference in curb appeal that can happen when you put the time, money and effort into it.
At this home we had the shrubs trimmed back to help provide some height contrast on the home and to give it some architectural interest since this style of 60’s rambler is pretty simple in its styling. We also wanted to give more light to the interior and most of these rhody’s were blocking the views from windows in the house. Other items completed were edging the patio, putting in beauty bark to give extra color and to show off the greenery. Bedding areas (out of this photo view) were cleaned up as well. We also brought in a table set and put out colorful pots with bright flowers (primroses) to help provide some much needed punch for visual interest when people were touring the property since the regular plantings weren’t yet ready to bloom.
You can see with this house we did quite a bit of work with the owner including even painting the exterior to update the color scheme. New lighting fixtures were put in on the garage area to better fit the scale of the home and to provide balance. We also had the lighter trim color done on the trim areas of the garage doors to offset the strong visual presence of the home’s windows, particularly in the peaked area of the roofline. A single type of flowering plant was used in the flower boxes to give more uniformity and to soften the lines of the home. The color of the front door was chosen to help draw the eye to the center of the home and the previous addition of the storm door removed during the sale period (it was left in the garage for any buyer that wanted to still use it after the sale). Pressure washing was done on the driveway to clean it up along with everything else as it had grown moss on it and accumulated lots of debris/dirt over the years.
