Five Exterior Home Improvement Ideas for Under $150
You may have found yourself stewing over what you can and cannot do to improve the exterior appearance of your home. You may have balked at undertaking any projects because you feel like there is nothing worth undertaking that you can afford. If this is the conclusion you have reached thus far, you need to rethink it.
There are a variety of affordable things you can do when it comes to improving the look of the exterior of your residence. Indeed, there are steps you can take to improve the appearance of the exterior of your home. There are projects you can undertake for $150 or less.
Embellish the Entrance to Your Home with Millwork
If you are like many homeowners, you have added millwork to the interior of your home. This has likely proven to be an affordable way in which to spruce up the appearance of the inside of your home without spending a great amount of money.
There is no reason why you cannot add millwork to the entrance to your home as an attractive embellishment. The addition of millwork can serve to give the entrance to your residence a markedly more sophisticated appearance. You can also surround your millwork and paint the final result in a manner to coordinate or compliment the exterior of your residence.
Accessorize the Entrance to Your Home
Another tactic you can employ to improve the exterior of your home for $150 or less is to accessorize the entrance to your residence. You can add items like address numbers, a letterbox, a flower box, and simple outdoor lighting near the door.
You can match the accessories to give your home a more classic look. In the alternative, you can mix and match accessories at the entranceway to your residence which will at a unique aesthetic to the look and feel of your home. It can give your home a more eclectic look.
Add Some Greenery
Consider the walkway to your residence. You can give your home a big bounce in its appearance by doing a bit of landscaping around the walkway to your home. Your best bet is to plant some sturdy perennials around the walkway. These are easy to tend to and you don’t need to worry about replanting each year.
No Walk Way? Make One
If your home lacks a walkway, make one. This is one of the easiest and least expensive do-it-yourself jobs you can undertake at your residence. You can accomplish the task with the use of affordably priced, irregularly shaped flagstone. The end result will be an amazing, welcoming pathway to your home — all for under $150 (and a bit of labor on your part).
Plant a Flowerbed
Another project you can undertake to enhance the appearance of your home is to do something as simple as plant a flower bed. Such a garden need not be anything over the top of fancy. It truly can be a simple patch of flowers like zinnias, marigolds, roses, daisies, and the like. You can also look at a seasonal array of flowers, like tulips in the spring and sturdy summer blooms in the summertime.
As an aside, a flowerbed can provide you with additional benefits beyond sprucing up the exterior of your home for an affordable price. The reality is that working in a flowerbed is a great stress reliever for many people. In addition, tending to a flowerbed can also give a person a sense of satisfaction.
Even if you embark on all the lower cost exterior home improvement projects at your residence, which each cost $150 or less, you will end up with a vastly enhance exterior for $750 or less. Of course, no one is suggesting that $750 isn’t a financial investment. However, when contrasted with so many other home refurbishing projects, these five when undertaken together truly represent a bargain.
Of course, you absolutely do not need to do all of these projects. Both your budget and available time can dictate the rate at which you undertake these tremendously beneficial improvement projects for the outside of your home.
If you want to engage the services of a professional to undertake these projects, that will boost the cost somewhat. With that said, generally speaking, these really are all suggested projects that can be fairly readily done on a do-it-yourself basis. None of them require any highly specialized skill set. Most of them really require a keen eye and a commitment to competing for a relatively simple project from start to finish.
Jessica Kane is a professional blogger who writes for Scaffold Store, the favorite and trusted scaffold supplier of the largest contractors.
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