8 Easy Steps to Boost Your Home Curb Appeal on Budget | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Lifestyle

8 Steps to Add Your Home Curb Appeal on a Budget

Give your house a new look, by spending less than expected.

78
8 Steps to add your house curb appeal on budget

Only when your home's curb leaves a great first impression to everyone, including the potential home-buyers, the buyers may think about further considerations about your house. Since everyone wants their house to be recognised at a glance in the neighbourhood, you know the drill.

But improving the home's curb appeal in a budget-friendly manner may sound literally impossible. Well, that doesn't always have to be. Big changes can come with small, inexpensive, but clever steps!

Check out these simple, low-cost curb face-lift hacks for a quick, unique and revolutionary change.


STEP-1: Keep a symmetric balance

To keep harmony in between the visibility and architectural model of your house, you need to choose landscaping schemes that make your home curb more put together, instead of looking distorted and off-centred. So at first, decide the focal points or the best spots of your house curb to emphasis on.

Do you have a spacious patio with beautiful sidings?

What is the most prominent feature of your curb?

Keeping the focal spots in mind, try to create symmetrical patterns with colours, accessories, and further exterior decorations.


STEP-2: Adding greenery to the porch and entryway

From hanging plants to terrariums, small plant jars to large urns, natural flower foliage to traditional ivy - adding low-to-the-ground greenery to the porch sets up a very welcoming aura throughout your curb with a very tranquil sensibility. How does it give your house exterior an instant face-lift? Well to the potential buyers, it indicates the fertile soil and healthy atmosphere to raise a happy family!

For the entryway, you can use flowery vine-covered front gate for the ultimate vintage aesthetics.


STEP-3: Glam up your front door

One of the first things that catch the guest or the home buyer's attention is the front door. When refurbishing the entire façade is too expensive even to consider, try replacing your old front door with a door that stands out the most.

When you have a clear concept of your house architecture, it's only natural to come up with a budget-friendly option that gives off a statement. The design and colouring vary from the size of the front doors. Glass panel front doors, pivot doors, steel atrium doors are great options for modern architecture and large floor-to-ceiling frames.

Small door frames, on the other hand, require extra heed to be noticed. Consider giving your small front door a vibrant, contrastive colour, which will squeeze all the attention into the foyer! Colourful storm doors, uPVC doors are modern choices for smaller frames.


STEP-4: Focus on the outdoor light fixture

One of the quickest ways to uplift your house curb appeal is, adding front porch illumination. A long industrial pendant, hanging lanterns in front of your entryway, or English panel side lamps on both of the sides of your front door flanking the entrance - right lighting frame and fixture gives your house curb a tantalising aesthetics! On top of that, the right illumination choice will help you set the focal point of your patio and make it visually spacious!


STEP-5: Upgrade the outdoor windows

Depending on the colour and architectural aspect of your house, consider adorning your outdoor windows as well! Decorative louvred window shutters with wooden slate frames, decorative moulding, flower box and mullions are a reasonably inexpensive way to glam up your outdoor windows. Don't forget to play with exotic shades of colours and hues to give the windows more contemporary looks with more attention to the details.


Step-6: Apply paints to the architectural details

What are the unique structural features that should grab the guest's attention right away? Small details like decorative mouldings, columns, brackets can help you boost your house curb appeal very quickly and not to mention, inexpensively. With the help of professional house painting consultants, consider painting the details with fresh coats of contrastive, accent colours with an amazing outcome.


Step-7: Give your curb accessories a makeover

What are the small accessories of your curb that everyone notices? Take a little bit of time and even shorter amount of money like on these little details that can add broader value to your curb like the shabby mailbox, outdated nameplate, wrinkly floor rug stained iron rails, tainted doorknob etc. Do they need replacements? Or some unique colour coatings and spray paint can do the magic? Make easy and cost-effective moves to give your surroundings fascinating touch-ups.


Related: Timeless interior and exterior paint colours for your home


Step-8: add a bit of your personality

In general cases, people spend most of their creativity adorning the interior décor of their house, while the house curb is left with its old and tedious appearance, which often discourages the potential house buyers from taking a tour around. How about you pour a bit of your creativity on your house curb as well?


Personalised wreath with a welcoming note, customised doormat can be an easy and budget-friendly start. Then you can proceed to customised landscaping, like giving your porch a lovely retreat by adding colourful beach pebbles, small rocks around the plants, adding tree plants in eco-friendly containers etc.

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
Featured

15 Mind-Bending Riddles

Hopefully they will make you laugh.

189328
 Ilistrated image of the planet and images of questions
StableDiffusion

I've been super busy lately with school work, studying, etc. Besides the fact that I do nothing but AP chemistry and AP economics, I constantly think of stupid questions that are almost impossible to answer. So, maybe you could answer them for me, and if not then we can both wonder what the answers to these 15 questions could be.

Keep Reading...Show less
Entertainment

Most Epic Aurora Borealis Photos: October 2024

As if May wasn't enough, a truly spectacular Northern Lights show lit up the sky on Oct. 10, 2024

14368
stunning aurora borealis display over a forest of trees and lake
StableDiffusion

From sea to shining sea, the United States was uniquely positioned for an incredible Aurora Borealis display on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, going into Friday, Oct. 11.

It was the second time this year after an historic geomagnetic storm in May 2024. Those Northern Lights were visible in Europe and North America, just like this latest rendition.

Keep Reading...Show less
 silhouette of a woman on the beach at sunrise
StableDiffusion

Content warning: This article contains descriptions of suicide/suicidal thoughts.

When you are feeling down, please know that there are many reasons to keep living.

Keep Reading...Show less
Relationships

Power of Love Letters

I don't think I say it enough...

457447
Illistrated image of a letter with 2 red hearts
StableDiffusion

To My Loving Boyfriend,

  • Thank you for all that you do for me
  • Thank you for working through disagreements with me
  • Thank you for always supporting me
  • I appreciate you more than words can express
  • You have helped me grow and become a better person
  • I can't wait to see where life takes us next
  • I promise to cherish every moment with you
  • Thank you for being my best friend and confidante
  • I love you and everything you do

To start off, here's something I don't say nearly enough: thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You do so much for me that I can't even put into words how much I appreciate everything you do - and have done - for me over the course of our relationship so far. While every couple has their fair share of tiffs and disagreements, thank you for getting through all of them with me and making us a better couple at the other end. With any argument, we don't just throw in the towel and say we're done, but we work towards a solution that puts us in a greater place each day. Thank you for always working with me and never giving up on us.

Keep Reading...Show less
Lifestyle

11 Signs You Grew Up In Hauppauge, NY

Because no one ever really leaves.

26402
Map of Hauppauge, New York
Google

Ah, yes, good old Hauppauge. We are that town in the dead center of Long Island that barely anyone knows how to pronounce unless they're from the town itself or live in a nearby area. Hauppauge is home to people of all kinds. We always have new families joining the community but honestly, the majority of the town is filled with people who never leave (high school alumni) and elders who have raised their kids here. Around the town, there are some just some landmarks and places that only the people of Hauppauge will ever understand the importance or even the annoyance of.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments