I have been dying for the sun to show up so we can get our house looking good for Summer! Time to plant a few annuals, time to sweep away the gunk on the porch, time to give our home a little curb appeal facelift. I’ve got so many ideas for curb appeal!
I put my “Lowe’s Creator” hat on and got to work in making my home look a bit more pleasant. Last month was a room makeover, this month is curb appeal. I kept it simple by adding a lot of flowers that will look much better once they grow and bloom. I promise to take another photo in about a month to show you the progress.
Houses with Curb Appeal
My house needed more curb appeal. Boring garage doors, boring grounds……….. See what I mean?
I have been dying to add Carriage Door hardware (carriage door hinge & strap) to my garage doors for a few years. I think houses that have these types of garages are so cute! Talk about curb appeal. Sometimes it takes my husband awhile to come around. I don’t know why he drags his feet on a few of my ideas, because he knows eventually he’s going to have to succumb to my crazy notions.
We had to special order the carriage door hardware, which was no problem at all. Within a week, we had them. I think they are exactly what my home needed. My husband even thinks so now too. Cost was about $54 for both sets
Ideas for Curb Appeal
Look how much character it adds to the front of my home. I’d say it’s curb appeal just went up! It also helped that the sun came out.
I also added the star to the gate. My husband built the gate a few years ago and spoiled me by trying to make the top I described. I can’t wait for my honeysuckle to climb all over it. It’s the little things that make a home look better.
I updated my front flower pots with flowers for the summer. (yes, those are terracotta pots spray painted)
Cleaned up the flower beds and planted a couple of perennials and a lot of annuals. (yes, that fountain is spray painted too) They had many varieties of Lavender at Lowe’s but we decided with a Spanish lavender for bigger blooms.
I replaced my rosemary holiday trees with a boxwood that I hope will stay all year. I added more flowers of course.
Someday I’m going to get a new front door from Lowe’s. I’ll still paint it red, but it won’t have the rainbow window arch. But for now, it will do.
I fell in love with this Valspar Waverly Home Classics paint from Lowe’s. This color is called Crystal Blue. Now I have a little table to set my coffee on. I love it!
As a Lowe’s Creator “girl”, I am compensated with a gift card for each project. All purchases are my choice as well as my opinions.
Samantha Camp says
My home needs so much help!! Two years ago, my husband got a new job that required us to relocate back to Washington State from Utah. Well, we weren’t able to sell our house when we had to move so we rented it out to some “friends”. Well they just let the house go while they lived there for a year and a half and now everything we had planted died, is overgrown, full of weeds, and dirty! 🙁 We are going to have a lot of work to do to get it back into looking great and having good curb appeal again…
Emily says
Our house needs some new shrubs in front of the house. And I already receive Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazine and love it!
Christie says
Our home needs a new mailbox and fence to up our curb appeal. I truly think our yard would be perfect with those two changes.
Katie says
My home could use so much to enhance the curb appeal. This year we’re focusing on landscaping.
Katie says
I was already signed up for the Lowe’s Creative Idea Magazine!
Megen Hood says
I need to get going on my flowers
Kathryn says
I’m dying to paint our front door or maybe even get a new front door.
Jennifer says
I think my home could use an arbor and gate like your husband built. It is beautiful.
linda (burlap+blue) says
I’d love to add a new lantern-style light fixture to our front porch! thanks for the chance!
Alexandria says
I would love to repaint our wooden front porch swing and make it white and also add new lights to the porch too 🙂
Gayle Shepherd says
Your home is beautiful! My home definitely needs a backhoe to dig out all the bushes &shrubs in front. We have lived here 14 years and the plantings are enormous. No amount of pruning will do, they just need to be replaced so you can see the front of my pretty house!
Fran says
What my home needs the most for more curb appeal is a new coat of stain on my trim. It has been neglected for waaaay too long. We need to replace some of it also. So a $100 Lowe’s gift card would come in pretty handy. Thank you for the opportunity to win one!!
Karen J Moseley says
Love your RED door and I actually like the rainbow arch! I would like to add some curb appeal to my front windows..maybe window box planters.
Sarah S. says
I really need to add some color to our landscaping! Seeing all your flowers shows me what a difference a few blooms can make. Thanks for the inspiration!
Shannon Spath says
My husband built an amazing fence years ago. We’ve never stained it. Staining it would make a hug difference in our curb appeal. Your house looks terrific! I love the blue table with the red chairs and front door.
Saundra says
I need paint for my rockers on my front porch, along with some plants for around the porch, and maybe a table of some kind to go between the chairs.
Saundra says
I need paint for my rockers on my front porch, along with some plants for around the porch, and maybe a table of some kind to go between the chairs.
Tricia says
Hmmm…what does my house need….
a bath (pressure wash)
new plants (ferns, succulents, ground cover, annuals (for pops of color)).
new paint for the front door
new light for front door
Cant wait for the magazine too!!! Super excited for the insipration!!!
Leslie M says
I need to repaint the front door and change the door lock!
kaybee says
I would LOVE to add some color and plants to our boring balcony! Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Alie says
We need flowers, herbs, pots, and paint. We move a lot. My husband is in the military and we need things that move with us and also give us a sense of home at each new place. II really like your after pictures you have some great ideas. Thank you!
michelle goodrich says
well i’d start with paint for the cement floor, outdoor rugs, lumber and hardware to build a porch swing, cusions and fabric and plants and lighting and and and.. obviously i chose to leave out many of the items on our wish list(ha!!!)
really nice work on your own outdoor updates! I especially love how the well the ‘crystal blue’ and red work together
Andrea V says
Okay, I have everything crossed that can be crossed – and so does my family. We live in Northern Virginia – where the cost of houses is equivalent to CA! No way can we afford any curb appeal living here. The house we moved into has tiny white rocks and mismatched large stepping stones leading to our porch. It is crazy looking and hard to step gracefully on to ring our doorbell. We would have it paved!!!!! Goodbye tiny rocks, choking hazards for upcoming baby #3!
Cathy says
Your updates to your flower gardens and garage door really boost the curb appeal. Our front porch needs HELP. It needs a new floor and some TLC. Our shutters also need to be revived with a good paint job. The $100 card would help start us on our way.
Jennifer says
Signed up for their free magazine!
Jennifer says
I need to do some work to the flower garden. Mulch, flowers, etc!
VickiS says
Love your new updated look. I know this is not new but that pop of red is really great! We’re redoing the front landscape (hopefully) have just installed a sprinkler system and am having new sod laid but in desperate need of bushes, flowers, etc. It is so hot down here (SW Florida) that we have to be careful of what we plant but with a sprinkler system that should help. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize.
Julie says
We really need to have a new driveway put down. We could do all kinds of things to add curb appea, but the driveway would still be any eyesore.
Jan says
Mine sweet little house needs much more than a little hardware and flowers. It needs a good scraping and paint job (I need to figure out what colors to paint that would go with my brick.) New lighting and lots of landscaping. And a new front door would be fabulous. I do love the Lowe’s magazine and have been getting it for a couple of years now. Great ideas.
Anne Marie says
I desperately need to replace bushes and add color with some planters and flowers. I need something hardy as I do not have a green thumb. I already subscribe to Lowes magazine.
shari says
I love the look of carriage doors, too! Only problem is that my doors don’t have the cut out windows on top. Would it look weird to add that hardware? I would love to do that to spruce up the house–oh, and add a good power washing, too!
Andrea Hall says
Your yard looks beautiful! Myself, I need to paint the front door, paint the living room, redo the bathroom, organize the craft room…my list is endless!
Mary Ann Jenkins says
I subscribed, thanks so much for the info on getting the magazine!!
I need new color next to our front door. My pots are the standard terra cotta, and now that I’ve seen your idea for spray painting, I’ve gotta give that a try! They of course would need new beautiful flowers to fill them. It’s that time of year to add back what mother nature took away over the winter 😉
Gina says
All of it! We built a new home, and we have to start our landscaping from scratch.
Stephanie says
We need landscaping!
Jeanne says
I really need to replace the lights outside my front door. Don’t know what took me so long to realize they are way too small for the space. Lowe’s has some lovely ones that would look great on either side of my front door. Love the way your garage turned out!
MaryAnn says
We are in need of a little sprucing outdoors ourselves. Projects for this summer include: staining our fence, mulching the flower beds, keeping a small garden, and touching up outdoor trim with paint.
nancy ross vecchione says
subscribed to Lowe’s Creative Appeal, can’t wait to read it!
nancy ross vecchione says
I’d love to add a living wall garden in my backyard! Which since I live on a corner shows off into the street. Also need a new front door. To be practical, I’d probably get the front door, or at least paint mine!
Connie Haack says
I already subscribe to Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine and it is full of great ideas. I love it.
Connie Haack says
We need a new Storm door. Ours is in bad shape. But I would really like to put in a really different flower display in the front. Not just planted flowers but something with different heights and add some garden art.
Suzan says
The front of my house is so boring. I want to dress it up with one of those sweet, old fashioned wooden screen doors. You know, the one’s that slam because of the spring attachment. A Lowe’s card would surely help with that purchase! I signed up for the Lowe’s magazine. New ideas are always welcome. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Mary says
We need lighting! We live out away from city lights and some low voltage lighting would really help out. I subscribed to Lowe’s Creative ideas.
Larissa says
Oh geez, there are gardening issues. I ripped out a bunch of weeds and tried to plant flowers, but it’s just not happening properly. I need more flowers, ones that do well in shade. And veggies out back.
jenny says
My curb appeal needs lots of color…so flowers flowers flowers!
dusty says
I think just a little tlc would do it some good. A little paint here and there and getting the riding lawn mower to work would be amazing.
Britny Garcia says
Great giveaway!! My house needs the front door painted and new flowers that can withstand this AZ heat! 🙂
Christi says
I think new shrubs, a new color on the door, potted plants, and a patio swing would really help the front of our house.
Amy says
There is so much that I could do to add curb appeal to my house, definatly some new flowers and flower pots, paint my front door a bold color to stand out, definatly repaint the porch furniture. The list could go on and on…but thanks for the oppurtunity to be entered!
Tasha says
Love the look of the garage now!!
I think I can do that!!