Getting started with improving your home can be an intimidating process to start, but the joy it can bring is hard to resist. Whether you’re interior decorating, or renovating the exterior of your home, making some changes can have a remarkable impact on how you experience your home, how other people view it, and how real estate agents will value it for sale or refinancing. When it comes to going through with a redecoration, there is a massive number of things that you can do that are all great options, but some options are better than others. One of the areas that is sure to get you the most bang for your buck is with improving the external face of your house, so here are five ways that you can do just that.

First is with improving your home’s façade. There are a lot of options for approaching this matter, and we’ll go over a few of the best of the lot. One thing that you can do is remove pebbledash from your external walls. This is a style of wall covering made up of small pebbles cemented to a wall in a kind of haphazard fashion. It was one of the most popular options throughout the UK for a number of decades in cheap housing developments. Pebbledash is a matter that divides opinions, but negative feelings for it are pretty strong, and if you want to have something that is off putting to half of the public then it might be just the solution. Otherwise, having exposed brick, a painted surface, or wood cladding are all great options that can allow homeowners to present a well-liked first impression for their homes. It speaks to a generally higher quality that can add value to a home, as well as being, in the view of most, a much more aesthetically appealing option.

The second issue you should look at tackling is your front garden. Not all homes have a front garden, but studies have shown the importance of having green in our environment, and so even adding potted plants can be beneficial, but if your home does have a front garden, getting it in order can be great for you and for visitors. One of the approaches that you should have for this issue is to focus on developing both the sights and scents of your front garden. Using flowering plants such as a rose bush, along with a herb such as rosemary or lavender, will cover all bases for you. In order to develop your front garden, you may also want to consider the amount of maintenance you’re willing to do beforehand. If it is something that you want to limit, limit yourself to just a few plants that have nice flowers and a great scent, and otherwise use something like pebbles or slate to suppress the growth of weeds and other plants over the rest of the front garden. This can give the appearance of a lot going on with only minimal work involved.

Thirdly, you can make sure that all of the components of the front of your home are well maintained. This is fundamental for putting a positive face on your home, and requires that you make sure that gutters are well maintained, and that everything that requires it has a fresh coat of paint. There are plenty of options available in terms of products that can help with this, including automatic gutter cleaners, that you can just place into gutters and it will remove all of the detritus quickly and easily. You also need to make sure that the windows of your property are well maintained. Keeping up with the maintenance of your home is important because a well maintained house is one of the first things that people will notice, regardless of the actual style used for the home. Having lots of obvious signs of deterioration around can also be a real drag on your own state of mind, so dealing with it regularly can be a great thing.

Lastly, you should look at the front entrance door of your property. This part of the front of your home is perhaps the most important thing, as visitors will likely be placed right in front of it when they wait for you to answer the door. It can provide an idea of class and prestige with the massive range of options available to you when it comes to replacing a front entrance door.