Let Your Backyard help you sell your Home

With your Curb Appeal Budget

You have up graded your curb appeal (the aesthetics of the front of your home). You worked hard  by taking care of  cracked and uneven concrete, repainting the house and porch, placing brightly colored planted pots on the porch, planting loads of color in the yard, hanging beautiful flowering baskets, built  retaining walls and focal points and perhaps even changed your front door. The front of your home is updated, beautiful and invites one in. Nice Job, all this work has set the tone of your home.

Your next step was the inside of your Home

You will have spent most of your budget here on the inside of your home. You have repainted, de-cluttered and minimized your personal items and furniture to make your home feel larger, clean and open.  You spent most of your budget on the kitchen, replacing out dated appliances and countertops and maybe even added new flooring throughout the house. You have upgraded your bathrooms with new tile and fixtures. You have staged your home in just the right way to be as, inviting inside as it is out front.

But, what can you do with the Backyard?

Well, with most of your budget spent and little left for the empty square in your backyard, where do you start? If your grass has seen better days, you could try and revive it or you can get creative. Put in an inexpensive patio area. With used bricks placed in sand and formed into a circle and an inexpensive birdbath or homemade fountain in the middle, you can create a wonderful and soothing focal point. Surround it with Butterfly and bird attracting plants of all colors. You could cut away more unsightly grass to make planting areas for flowers and shrubbery. You can even use large pots lined up against the empty fence and plant them with tall grasses and greenery. Now, with your grass area whittled down you can possibly afford to put in new sod or if you have the time and water you could replant it yourself. Invest in several bags of mulch to make your plants pop against the colored mulch. Planted pots and hanging baskets can also cover an empty slab of concrete and bring it to life.

If your patio furniture is looking past its due date; brighten it up with a can of paint or stain and accessorize with brightly colored pillows, glass bottles and lanterns. You can turn that empty square of bad grass into an oasis with a lot of elbow grease and imagination. You can find inexpensive ideas in magazines at Sunset.com, Southernliving.com, Coastalliving.com, betterhomesandgardens.com, and so many more. Check these out and use your creativity to make your backyard a place that will not only help sell your home, but make you not want to leave it.