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Amping up your home’s curb appeal during the colorless winter months doesn’t need to be a challenge when you use some of these tips. Buyers will appreciate seeing the difference these small efforts make and how your home will be perceived. With the focus on lighting, added color and texture, cleanliness, and your home’s best features highlighted you can help your home standout. Let’s attract some serious buyers who are ready to move—even during the colder days of the year.
A well-maintained and clean landscape is desirable and eye-catching. This begins seasonally with removing the summer and fall dead foliage and leaves. A tidy yard makes a positive impression. Adding a thick layer of fresh mulch adds color plus hides any missed weeds—preventing new weeds from sprouting.
Removing any debris from gutters and washing the windows will make your home pristine. Include the often-forgotten garage or outbuilding windows in your cleaning plan.
Two elevated touches that help your home standout include painting your front door in a fresh, warm color. Talk with your realtor about colors trends for doors around your community. While you’re focusing on the front door, this is a prime time to upgrade the door’s hardware to replace anything that is rusted, dated or tarnished. Give the same attention to brighten the look of your house numbers and your mailbox.
Over time dirt, stains, and mildew can accumulate on hardscapes and leave them dull, dingy, and unappealing. Houston winters can be wet and muddy. As you prepare your home for listing, take a moment to pressure wash walkways, porches, and the driveway. Don’t overlook the back patio area or around the pool.
If you notice any cracks around the hardscape joints or surfaces, go ahead and make the needed repairs. Be mindful of any retaining wall cracks or issues. It’s easier to spot and repair problems when the summer growth isn’t camouflaging a hidden problem.
When the bold colors of summer have faded and autumn’s colors have fallen, this is when the evergreens reign. Focus on layering textures and colors between the hardscapes, fresh mulch, evergreens, and plants to create maximum eye appeal. The mixed textures and evergreen colors can complement your home’s architecture.
In the evergreen family, seek out arborvitae, boxwood, holly, and junipers to keep their color and add interest to any landscape. Cold-hardy plants for flowerbeds or planters will add pops of color. You can’t go wrong with pansies, petunias, violas, or ornamental kale.
A well-lit walkway emphasizes the home’s safety and alleviates fumbling in the darkness to unlock a door or stumble while walking the garbage to the curb. Here’s where you can add LED or solar-powered lighting along walkways, across the front of the home, or to spotlight trees. These low-voltage lights set the mood around the landscape to be both inviting and cozy.
Be sure to replace outdoor bulbs with fresh bulbs and test that all landscape lights are working properly. You may even want to add small solar-powered lantern on your porch for a unique stylish touch.
Adding a seasonal door wreath or colorful cushions to your porch and patio furniture are two ways to style the front and back entrances. If you have space for a planter or pot, consider planting something or creating your own display of evergreens. Adding some evergreen and winter berry cuttings is a quick way to add interest with minimal effort.
Have an empty birdbath or fountain? These are prime locations to add a sparkly display by filling the birdbath with twigs, greenery, and berries. To get the sparkles, spray twigs with spray adhesive, roll in glitter, and add to the display. Adding a mirrored gazing ball elevates the look.
If you’re thinking of selling your home soon, let’s talk. There are many ways to amp up your home’s curb appeal when nature’s color palette is dull. Let’s help buyers to see your home’s best features.
Since 2004 Sara Lyn Nguyen continues to bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise about buying and selling real estate around the Houston area to those she serves. Sara is a multi-year award winning REALTOR® and relocation specialist where her clients trust her to have up-to-date information on the real estate market. She has been one of Gary Greene’s Multi-Million Dollar Top Producers, and citywide was the #2 Top Producing agent in 2020, #3 in 2021, #2 in 2022, #5 in 2023 and 2024. When it’s time to buy, sell, invest, or relocate speak with a trusted professional knowledgeable in the homes and neighborhoods of Fort Bend/Sugar Land and the surrounding region.
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