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Columbus Outdoor Lighting Business Offers Top 10 Ways to Stage a Home's Exterior at the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show
A home and its accompanying property are probably the largest investment that an individual will make. With so many adverse conditions currently facing housing markets, acquiring an optimum price for a property is a high priority for most homeowners. Maximizing a homes' curb appeal can greatly assist in achieving this goal. Some home sales experts claim that appropriate garden and lawn improvements can bring an estimated return 100% to 200% of the property owners invested dollars. NiteLites Outdoor Lighting of Columbus offers these helpful tips to maximize your home's selling potential.
The first step is to clean up. This is often one of the least expensive yet most significant things you can do to improve the look of your home. Pick up the front yard, put away unused items such as lawn furniture, children's toys, or other random items, and pressure wash the driveway and sidewalk.
Second, clean the landscape that is seen upon entering the property. Cleaning the landscaping is a relatively easy step. Start by pruning trees and shrubs to enhance their beauty and to create the appearance of order for the property. Adding trees to the yard will create focal points. Tall shrubs can frame and accent interesting features of a house and yard or be used to conceal unsightly areas. Make sure to plant mature looking flowers in the foreground, as they are a sure way to bring a yard to life.
Third, houses with siding or pressboard should be washed by either the homeowner or a pressure washing service.
Fourth, if cleaning doesn't revive the building's exterior, a fresh coat of paint may be called for. Since painting can be expensive and time consuming, owners may want to consider painting just the trim.
The fifth step in improving curb appeal is to address the front lawn. The front lawn carpets much of the front yard, so its condition is critical to how a house looks from the street. Start with regular mowing, raking, edging, weeding, and watering. If necessary, seed the thin areas, fertilize, de-thatch, or aerate it to get it looking great. Also check for and remove any weeds that may have found their way into the breaks in the driveway or sidewalk.
Sixth, create focal points by adding front yard gardens, small fences, arbors, and/or water features. This type of addition creates a distinct character, and visual interest to your front yard. Please remember, though, that less is more. You may love the twenty garden gnomes and ceramic frogs and fairies attending to your azaleas, but potential home buyers might not.
Seventh, the walkway and/or steps that lead to front door can do more than provide safe passage. They can set the tone for a home's style. Brick, concrete, stone, or decorative pavers may be the choice. Lining the walkway with orderly low shrubs or blower will also create a positive impression.
Eighth, small things can make a big difference. The mailbox, house numbers, hardware on the front door, front light, and potted plants on the porch all present a relatively inexpensive but high impact. Also, the front door to home should be in perfect shape. If it isn't, either refinish or replace it.
The ninth step is to put cars in the garage. Many people use the garage as a storage room and park their cars in the driveway where they clutter the view of the house. It also can create the impression of disorder.
Last, but certainly not least, highlight your property's assets with landscape lighting. Outdoor lighting provides an effective way to highlight a home and its yard features in the evening hours. The front yard should have functional path and front porch lighting as well as accent lighting to help create dramatic effects. At the same time, landscape lighting not only highlights the features of a property owner's yard, it also creates a safer living environment, eliminating the "dark spots" that intruders could use and be unnoticed.
For custom lighting design with safe and reliable lighting fixtures, always use a professional outdoor lighting company. Their training and experience will help the homeowner to accent the best features on and around the property.
NiteLites Landscape Lighting of Columbus will be on hand at the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show (http://www.dispatchevents.com/home_garden.php), pairing up with EMI Lanscape Pros (http://landscapepros.com/), to extend their exterior lighting expertise to show attendees. Guests are invited to visit with General Manager
NiteLites Outdoor Lighting Franchise Systems sole business is outdoor lighting for homes and business properties. The company installs high quality, energy efficient LEDs, specification grade low voltage fixtures and transformers which are manufactured to their exact specifications. NiteLites continually strives to elevate standards of quality, safety, and professionalism in the industry. The outdoor lighting business serves Bexley, Blacklick, Bucyrus, Canal Winchester, Carroll,