Curb appeal is an important aspect of buying or selling a Lutz FL home

Curb appeal is an important aspect of buying or selling Lutz FL homes.

Sometimes when you’re buying a house an advertisement or photos from the inside may make it look like the home of your dreams but when you pull up outside the house, it looks more like a nightmare.

An important part of selling Lutz FL real estate is curb appeal. You want potential buyers to know you have invested just as much time on the outside appearance of the home as you have with the inside.

Curb appeal will go a long way with potential buyers because it tells them you care about all of the real estate and not just the inside the home.

Curb appeal is more than planting flowers.

Brandon Cornett, editor of the Home Buying Institute, defines curb appeal as a strategy to remove, improve and colorize the outside real estate area. He said creating curb appeal involves landscaping, lawn care, painting and cleaning.

When tackling the subject of curb appeal, the first step is lawn care. In the article on curb appeal tips, Cornett said lawn care should be the first priority because it takes the longest to get under control.

Taking a lawn from unsightly to aesthetically pleasing can be chore, as well as time consuming, that’s why Cornett recommends tackling it first. If the lawn is in dire condition, Cornett said there’s no shame in seeking professional help from a landscaping service. Often a landscaping service can evaluate, diagnose and correct a problem lawn quicker than you can perform online research and find yourself wandering around the lawn and garden section at a home improvement store.

Once the lawn situation is under control, Cornett says the next step of establishing dynamic curb appeal is sprucing up bushes or hedges by giving them a trim or even shaping them into squares or spheres using s hedge trimmer which can either be electric or manual.

Whatever you use you definitely don’t want is one giant unshaped bush that resembles a blob of some sort. When you are done and admiring your handy work, don’t forget to remove excess/discarded branches. You don’t want anything to take away from your hard work, that defeats the purpose of trying to create ideal curb appeal.

Hedges or shrubbery that is dead or in the process of dying should be removed if they can’t be revived in a timely manner.

Another situation where hedges or shrubbery should be removed or relocated is when the greenery is blocking a door or window, Cornett says this gives makes the house seem closed in or small.

A small and inexpensive thing you can do to add color and contrast to beef up curb appeal is planting flowers and plants.

Cornett suggests removing dead or dying flowers and plants, just as you did with the bushes and shrubbery. He also advocates placing potted flowers of the same kind on either side of the front door.

If you have other areas of flowers or plants, make sure they are neat with fresh mulch added where needed.

While adding flowers or plants may be an easy task to handle, trees are a different subject.

Trees are also a part of curb appeal but they can’t be moved or replaced without enormous cost. Cornett suggests watering trees that are in full leaf. He said watering a tree is different than watering grass or plants.

Trees require a longer period of watering at a steady pace. There are unique devices you can use with a garden hose that allow trees to be watered in a proper way. Trees will revitalize after a few hours of having the proper amount of water. It is important to water trees when a home is on the market to ensure they always look their best.