How to Increase Curb Appeal

Reputable landscape design services can boost your home's curb appeal by creating a sense of a mature landscape, using lighting and hardscape intentionally to feature key features of your property, and paying attention to the small details around your home's exterior. Once you've increased your home's curb appeal, it's also important to maintain your property to keep it looking its best.

Integrating more mature trees and plants around your home and driveway is more effective than using exotic or expensive species. These should be selected based on the climate, soil conditions, and the amount of sun your property receives each day.

Layer plants in slightly uneven rows with tall shrubs in the back, medium plants in the middle, and low ground cover in the front to create depth and movement. If a home is surrounded only by small plants, it can make it look unfinished. The plants don't need to be oversized; they should just match the scale of the home and surrounding structures.

If mature plants are not within your budget, keep in mind when to plant ornamental grass and opt for fast-growing plants that will quickly create the appearance of an established landscape that complements your home. Don't remove mature trees or plants just because they are old. These plants have character that only comes with age, and a trimming may be all they need!

Driveways, walkways, and lighting can shape how visitors perceive your home. However, low-voltage lighting should be used sparingly to subtly illuminate features such as a wandering pathway, the texture of a stone or brick wall, or a mature tree that provides scale, shade, character, and a sense of permanence to your property.

Step back and look at the hardscape around your home. Sometimes, a hardscape can appear almost disconnected from the home, with it abruptly ending and the landscaping beginning immediately at the edge. Instead, landscaping can be designed to connect the two elements, such as by strategically placing plants that partially wrap around the corner of a patio, by making a meandering path disappear and reappear from view, or by softening the ends of a driveway.

Making small upgrades around a home can elevate the impression your home makes to anyone stopping by. A few ideas include encasing the mailbox in an entry pillar or adding plantings to a freestanding mailbox.

Upgrading gutters with a half-round design or adding a pergola to the backyard are a few other ideas to consider. Keep lawn tools, garbage cans, irrigation equipment, and other unsightly items behind shrubs or a decorative wall so they don't ruin the ambiance you've worked so hard to create.

After investing time and resources to boost your home's curb appeal, you want it to keep looking fantastic. It's not just about watering or mowing the lawn regularly.

Maintaining a professional-looking landscape means spending time nurturing its appeal by edging driveways and walkways, pulling and replacing dead or overgrown shrubs, laying a thick layer of mulch in flower beds twice a year, and routinely reseeding or sodding bare or brown patches in the lawn.

Your home is your castle, and you want a landscape service that cares about how it looks as much as you do. Michaelangelo's Sustainable Landscape and Design Group is known for transforming outdoor spaces and standing behind its work with a lifetime plant warranty and professional maintenance programs.

We're so confident in our ability to deliver what you want that we offer a six-month guarantee. If you're unhappy with any aspect of our work, we'll come back and fix it for free.

Quality landscaping starts with the right team. Contact us to learn more about how we can help.