Keeping up with your Irving Home’s Curb Appeal while Selling

You know the importance of keeping your Irving home neat and orderly while it is on the market. You’ve cleaned, de-cluttered and have given your home a thorough cleaning in anticipation of putting it on the market. However, have you taken the time to peruse your home’s surroundings? In particular, have you ignored the outside of your home as your work to perfect the inside?

If so, you are like many Irving homeowners who, in the chaos of preparing their home for sale have simply neglected to consider the outside of their home. Many of these homeowners have also moved out of their home during this process, thereby ignoring their home’s curb appeal. It is important to understand that keeping your home in a presentable condition involves more than just mowing the lawn. You must lure your buyers in and make your Irving home as pristine and attractive as possible; and that includes perfecting your home’s curb appeal.

Consider setting aside time each week to care for your home’s exterior. If you are simply too busy or unable to do so, consider hiring a gardener or lawn service to take care of it for you. A gardener or lawn service is almost always well worth the expense, as it will certainly translate into a quicker sale and more activity.

So, what does perfecting your Irving’s home curb appeal entail? You can increase your home’s curb appeal by:

1. Cleaning up the yard and removing any debris on a weekly basis. This may mean removing leaves, branches and removing dead flowers from your plants and flower beds.

2. Increasing your home’s safety and aesthetics by installing landscaping lighting. Luckily, landscape lighting is economical, cost effective and easy and safe to install. Light up your walkway, your flower beds and your front entry. Consider adding drama to dark corners by adding uplights. Uplights cast shadows against your home’s landscaping and façade, thereby adding drama and interest to your home during the evening hours.

3. Increasing your home’s safety by addressing any problems with the driveway, sidewalk, or front porch. In particular, make sure your driveway is free of cracks or uneven spots, and that your walkway and front porch are well-lit. In addition, you may want to consider adding a handrail or other type of support to your steps.

4. Trimming branches and cutting back overgrown plants and trees. In particular, take a look at your home from the curb and assess whether your low-hanging branches are obstructing the view of your Irving home from the street. If the job is small you should have no difficulty tackling a quick pruning project. If, however, you have large trees that need attention, you should probably call in a professional tree trimmer to take over.

5. Decorating and adding finishing touches. The best way to instantly increase your home’s curb appeal is to make it feel more welcoming. You can easily accomplish this by adding a seasonal wreath to the door, by placing colorful annuals next to the front door and by giving your mailbox a fresh coat of paint. Often times, it’s all about the details when speaking of curb appeal.