7 Simple Ways to Invest in Your Yard for Big Returns

To potential buyers, what’s out in the front yard and in behind a house can be just as important as what’s inside it. Spending a little time (and money) elevating the outdoor areas can have a significant payoff when the offers start rolling in this selling season.

Color Blocking

Take a page from a popular trend – color blocking- and transpose its traits unto your landscape design. Pick out a patio wall and paint it a bold color or color block your flower beds! It creates a visual frame to highlight any outdoor amenities such as an outdoor fire pit or a row of potted plants

Flower Power

Whether making a good first impression with a potential suitor or blowing away a potential buyer, flowers are always a clever idea. Armed with a spade, some potting soil and slew of bright buds in a single color, line the front pathways, ring the trees and fill porch pots for instant curb appeal.

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Play it Forward

In 2017, backyards are going beyond bench seats and flower boxes. One of the year’s biggest landscaping trends is having a place to play. Be it a backyard-sized bocce ball court or custom made cornhole set, setting up something fun for the future owners to play with could really pay off.

Light it Up

Gving the backyard a boost with a set of café string lights crisscrossing just so. Illuninating outdoor spaces withnthese trendy trestles creates an inviting vintage vibe that begs potential buyers to pull up a chair and settle in for the night (and every night after that).

Eat Up

Harness the momentum of the “foodscaping” movement and plant a vegetable garden. A couple of box planters bimming with fresh parsley, salad greens and zucchini vines shows that this home is all about homegrown, and who wouldn’t want a slice of that?

Lawn Yawn

Instead of investing hundreds of dollars trying to fix a neglected lawn, take the path less trodden. Lawn alternatives, such as wild grasses and wild flower mixes, are starting to sprout up everywhere, thanks to growing awareness around traditional lawn maintenance. (fetilizer, water usage, etc.)

Swing Shift

Have you ever seen a porch swing and NOT wanted to sit on it? Installing one of these swingers on the front porch (or any spot on the property) is a sure-fire way to get potential buyers to picture themselves rocking their way right into a full price offer.