Selling Your Home? Score Some Curb Appeal Fast


When selling your home, it really stinks to spend money on improvements that you may not recoup. However, it stinks worse to have your perfectly lovely home sit for ages, unsold, because that first impression isn’t all it could be.

Recently, I wrote about a few weird tricks that are inexpensive but generate some serious curb appeal fast:

How to Spruce Up Your Landscaping for a Fast Sale

This is easy, weekend warrior type of stuff. Once you know a few quick things to tackle, it’s not too hard to select a few projects and make a significant difference fast.

Of course, great minds think alike! I noticed that Debbie over at Garden of Possibilities also recently tackled the same topic! Here’s her take:

Enhancing Curb Appeal

If you need more than just a few quick tips and fast projects, these books might help:

Taunton’s Curb Appeal Idea Book (by Taunton, who publishes Fine Gardening Magazine)

Sunset’s Guide to Curb Appeal

House Colors: Exterior Color by Style of Architecture


3 responses to “Selling Your Home? Score Some Curb Appeal Fast”

  1. Hi Gen,

    Thanks for the shout out! It’s amazing how dramatically better your landscape can look with just a few $ and a few hours of work. It looks like you’ve included some great links, I’m off to check out the house colors link now.

    • Thanks, Debbie! I loved your tips as well – what I love about blogging is how two people can find such different things to focus on, or differing takes on the same topic. It was really fun that we both posted on curb appeal recently!

  2. Quick plantings of annuals/perennials around the mailbox, in window boxes, etc are of course great cheap ways to add color and spruce things up, but if you live in dry/hot areas you really have to be sure that the sprinklers are getting them enough water or be vigilant about hand watering yourself. Otherwise it might end up looking worse than when you started…