How can you make sure your home has great curb appeal? Have a great entrance sets the tone for the whole house, so adding some fresh paint, great landscaping and a clean path to get there is essential. It doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg to make your entryway look amazing and it’s something you can work on over a long period of time. Increasing your curb appeal will make your guests happier and you happier when you arrive home every day. If you plan to sell soon, it’s essential to improve your curb appeal. Here is a look at a few tricks to make this happen with affordable solutions.

Add your Personal Style

Your entryway is your chance to add a bit of your own personality to the home. Do you like clean, simple lines in modern homes or historic, charming qualities with ornate detail? Have fun when you choose your house numbers, your mailbox and your overhead light fixtures. Updating these will make your home look updated rather than dingy and out of date. Make sure they work collectively with all of the same materials or styles. Go with all brushed nickel or all oiled-bronze finishes for example.

Keep it Symmetrical

Make sure you choose symmetrical accents from light fixtures to plants. Having everything too scattered, random and non-cohesive won’t come across as eccentric but rather as messy.

Lighting

There’s nothing worse than trying to walk up to someone’s home and having no lighting on your pathway. Installing some lighting in your landscaping is an affordable way to add curb appeal to your entrance. Your guests need to see where they are walking and great lighting is always a pleasant update to any space. Try solar lighting and the sun will do all of the work for you.

Garden

You should definitely update your home’s curb appeal with a container garden. It will make guests feel welcome and your home will look for colorful. It’s affordable because ready-made containers are sold at garden centers for a low cost. Make it asymmetrical and staggered to make your home feel dynamic. Install window boxes as well where mix and match flowers and plants can add to your color scheme. Update your garden beds, pull weeds and add new mulch to make it look fresh.

Other great ways to improve your curb appeal is to install garden gates, add outdoor art like sculptures, fountains and wind chimes, add molding around the front door, add shutters, repaint and replace gutters. You’ll have what feels like a brand new home in no time.