How Landscaping Can Improve the Value of Your Home
Now that Spring has sprung, people are getting inside and looking at their landscaping after a long winter indoors. If you are planning on selling your home soon, landscaping is an especially important – yet sometimes neglected – feature that can add value to your home.
Landscaping can add tens of thousands of dollars to the value of your property. It is one of the few home improvements that not only adds value immediately, but also increases in value as the time go by. While interior decorating and design go out of style, plants grow fuller and more lovely as time goes on.
First impressions count, and when a buyer sees your home for the first time, curb appeal and the care of the landscaping are the first indicators of how well the home has been cared for.
Not only will landscaping increase your home’s value, it is also great for the environment and has been shown to improve your health.
Whether you’re thinking about selling your home in the near future, or keeping it in your family, landscaping can increase your home’s curb appeal and increase the property value tremendously.
Here are some ways to increase your home’s value with landscaping.
DESIGN YOUR LANDSCAPE WITH A STRATEGY IN MIND
A landscape design project takes a bit of strategy if you’re wanting to increase your home’s property value. Planting trees and flowers randomly may turn your garden into a bit of a mess once everything has grown in. You shouldn’t fill your entire yard with various plantings and landscape design elements just for the sake of adding them to your yard.
What you want to achieve is a uniform look with just the right amount of shrubs and perennials – with just enough diversity to keep it interesting, but not so little that your landscape is plain and boring.
A landscape design is like a floor plan for an outdoor area. Like a floor plan, a landscape design creates a visual representation of a site using scaled dimensions. Landscape plans include natural elements like flowers, trees, and grass as well as man-made elements such as lawn furniture, fountains, and sheds. Landscape designs may also include overlays for irrigation and lighting.
For do-it-yourselfers, there are many examples of landscape design templates online, and how best to create your own. If you are new to landscaping, a landscape design professional can assist you in developing the landscape plan that’s right for you.
ADD TREES TO YOUR YARD
It may seem simple, but adding a few simple trees to your landscape can make an enormous difference in the value of your home.
In one study by the Wall Street Journal, trees helped homes sell for 10-15% more than their asking prices. This increase is due to:
· Trees remove carbon dioxide and pollution from the air
· People see trees as an environmentally friendly
· Shade that trees produce keep yards cooler and more inviting
· Plants, including trees, are a stress reliever and bring a relaxing, calming feeling to a space
HAVE A UNIFORM STYLE BETWEEN YOUR HOME AND LANDSCAPE
One of the best ways to increase your home’s overall value is to create a singular style and stick with it.
Having a modern style home with a Mediterranean-style landscape design, creates too many opportunities for design clashing, and takes away from the home’s appeal which decreases the home’s property value.
You’re much better off creating a versatile landscape that can be adapted to any style home, in the instance that your tastes change or you decide to sell your home.
Try creating a more modern landscape by relying on plenty of greenery, perennials, and manicured planters that fit the curves and edges of your property.
ADD COLOUR
Gardens with full, leafy plants and vibrant flora will add wonderful colour, texture and dimension to your landscape.
Beautiful flowers, thick shrubbery, and blooming plants will create instant curb appeal for your home and give your landscape a well-maintained appearance.
If you add aromatic plants and flowers to your landscape design, they will add lovely scents to your gardens and invite birds and butterflies to your yard.
These steps are just the beginning. Many people shy away from landscaping because they think it will cost them a lot of money. Stay tuned for our next blog where we discuss landscaping tips that you can do on your own for not a lot of money.
DEFINE YOUR LAWN EDGES
Edging your lawn makes a yard look manicured and well-maintained, and often gives the illusion of lower maintenance, which is a high selling point.
Edging your lawn along driveways, sidewalks, and garden beds shows prospective buyers how meticulous your property’s upkeep is, and that the rest of your property must also be in pristine condition.
Use a sharp spade or edge to create a neat separation between your lawn and garden bed or walkways.
Add a physical barrier such as timber, brick, or stone between your lawn and walkways.
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