When your goal is to add home value, you should invest in improving both your home’s exterior and interior.
When your goal is to add home value, you should invest in improving both your home’s exterior and interior. The best homes have high-quality, functional kitchens and bathrooms. However, they also have well-maintained landscapes. When landscaped and architecturally appealing, the home’s exterior is enough to make prospective buyers wonder what’s on the inside of the house. Here is how to add home value with your landscaping.
Keep Overgrown Plants At Bay
Overgrown plants can be an eyesore. If you don’t want your yard detracting from your home’s architectural beauty, always trim and prune your plants. One way to give a landscape structure and cohesion is to invest in hardscape features. Hardscape features are the perfect accompaniment to a beautiful landscape.
Plant Trees
Trees benefit any homeowner in both warmer and colder seasons. Trees help to purify the air while bringing shade and serving as windbreakers during inclement weather. It all depends on the tree’s placement, but you can lower energy bills. Overall, trees help to beautify your property, regulate temperatures, promote fresher air, and a bonus is that they add privacy to your property.
Invest in Landscape Maintenance
Landscape maintenance involves more than keeping overgrown plants at bay. Landscape Maintenance is more than just pruning to keep your shrubs at bay. Proper and regular pruning, fertilizing, weed management, and, mulching is not just housekeeping. They will make your landscape thrive abundantly. You can improve your yard even more by investing in a drainage system. Drainage systems help to combat soil erosion. Retaining walls also help in this effort.
Add a Deck or Patio
When deck or patio installation happens, it benefits you in many ways. One, you can enjoy the outdoors and relax. Two, you can entertain your family and guests and add more space to your home. Three, a screened porch, in particular, keeps out bugs and inclement weather, and you can extend its usage by adding ceiling fans or heaters.
Add Lighting to Your Property
When you’re proud of something, you showcase it. What better way to show off a beautiful yard than with landscape lighting? Exterior lighting helps highlight landscape and hardscape features you love, but it also enhances safety and security. Landscape lighting is an affordable way to create a dynamic property.
Following these tips will help add home value and draw prospective buyers in, but they benefit you, too. Every homeowner deserves a beautiful property that they feel proud to call their own. Allow Carroll Landscaping to transform your outdoor living space if you don’t feel this way.
Interested in Improving Your Outdoor Living Space? Consider Landscape and Hardscaping Design Services from Carroll Landscaping
Carroll Landscaping has over 30 years of experience with landscape construction, porch construction, deck building, and hardscape installation. Our award-winning landscape designers are passionate about providing customers with top-notch service and landscape design. Our landscape designers have a creative design outlook and work as a team with our installation crews to make your vision a reality. We are committed to providing every customer with the highest quality artistry, professional and knowledgeable service, and creativity in design to surpass our clients’ expectations in every aspect of the project.
We serve residents throughout Maryland’s beautiful state, including Baltimore, Columbia, Ellicott City, Eldersburg, Clarksville, Sykesville, Manchester, Westminster, and Woodstock. For more information and to schedule a consultation with one of our expert designers, contact us online or give us a call at 410-922-2416