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How to Improve Your Lawn: 4 Easy Steps

An impressive-looking lawn is more than just an aesthetic asset for your home. It’s also a great way to improve the value of your property. Good landscaping is important if you want to get the best value for your home, so it’s important to invest time and money in improving the way your lawn looks to your guests and passersby.

For this, let’s take a look at a few important tips you should consider when you’re improving your lawn.

Give it a rustic atmosphere

One thing’s for sure, many homeowners are aiming for a rustic atmosphere for their lawns. It comes as more people are drawn to nostalgia than to functionality. For some reason, people want to harken back to a time when things were simple.

Sure enough, it’s very possible to give your lawn a nostalgic vibe. All you need to do is to repurpose old or damaged furniture and use their parts to create makeshift coffee tables and stools which you can place in front of the house.

 Spruce up your walkway

Your walkway is basically the path that leads to your front door. While you can always go the safer route by getting marble slabs, you can use other means to make your walkway more appealing to your guests.

For one, you can always go beyond marble slabs and look at other materials for your walkway. Wooden beams, for instance, can be cut into flat planks which you can coat with some varnish to create a nice tropical path. If you have extra tiles around, you can break these into pieces and lay them down on the path to create a mosaic of colors. Another option is to lay some white pebbles to form the path. Then, you can lay white or black tile to create a more zen-like vibe to your front entrance.

Keep your grass healthy

The key to a stellar lawn is the grass. After all, it’s the grass that defines your home’s attractiveness from the get-go since it’s one of the first things that your visitors will notice. That being said, proper care has to be done when it comes to maintaining your grass.

Sure enough, lawn maintenance takes on regional dimensions, since certain places across the United States have different species of grass and, therefore, different ways of maintaining them. In Texas, you might want to consider knowing the different kinds of grass that grow there. And if you’re living in warmer climates, expect to read a Florida yard work guide to know how to properly take care of grass in this part of the country.

 Improve your lighting

Who says you need sunlight to appreciate an impressive-looking lawn? Sure enough, you can always install the right lighting fixtures that will illuminate the frontage of your home as well as key fixtures on your front lawn.

For this, you might want to install patio lamps as well as string lights that run across from a nearby tree to the edge of your roof.

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About Shanna

Shanna started writing shortly after her daughter was born. She's written for various outlets over the years. When she's not writing about her adventures with her daughter, she's out having adventures!

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Shanna is a single mom living in the suburbs of the Twin Cities raising her daughter.

Shanna blogs about family, food, travel, middle-school-age children topics, and more. She shares tips and tricks she has discovered to help make her life run smoother.

She is also an avid cook and enjoys sharing recipes and entertaining. Shanna plans educational events and field trips for her daughter and shares her experiences so other families can plan their own adventures.

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