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8 Steps to Add Your Home Curb Appeal on a Budget

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

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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.

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