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I have been dying for the sun to show up so we can get our house looking good for Summer! Time to plant a few annuals, time to sweep away the gunk on the porch, time to give our home a little curb appeal facelift. I’ve got so many ideas for curb appeal!
I put my “Lowe’s Creator” hat on and got to work in making my home look a bit more pleasant. Last month was a room makeover, this month is curb appeal. I kept it simple by adding a lot of flowers that will look much better once they grow and bloom. I promise to take another photo in about a month to show you the progress.
Houses with Curb Appeal
My house needed more curb appeal. Boring garage doors, boring grounds……….. See what I mean?
I have been dying to add Carriage Door hardware (carriage door hinge & strap) to my garage doors for a few years. I think houses that have these types of garages are so cute! Talk about curb appeal. Sometimes it takes my husband awhile to come around. I don’t know why he drags his feet on a few of my ideas, because he knows eventually he’s going to have to succumb to my crazy notions.
We had to special order the carriage door hardware, which was no problem at all. Within a week, we had them. I think they are exactly what my home needed. My husband even thinks so now too. Cost was about $54 for both sets
Ideas for Curb Appeal
Look how much character it adds to the front of my home. I’d say it’s curb appeal just went up! It also helped that the sun came out.
I also added the star to the gate. My husband built the gate a few years ago and spoiled me by trying to make the top I described. I can’t wait for my honeysuckle to climb all over it. It’s the little things that make a home look better.
I updated my front flower pots with flowers for the summer. (yes, those are terracotta pots spray painted)
Cleaned up the flower beds and planted a couple of perennials and a lot of annuals. (yes, that fountain is spray painted too) They had many varieties of Lavender at Lowe’s but we decided with a Spanish lavender for bigger blooms.
I replaced my rosemary holiday trees with a boxwood that I hope will stay all year. I added more flowers of course.
Someday I’m going to get a new front door from Lowe’s. I’ll still paint it red, but it won’t have the rainbow window arch. But for now, it will do.
I fell in love with this Valspar Waverly Home Classics paint from Lowe’s. This color is called Crystal Blue. Now I have a little table to set my coffee on. I love it!
As a Lowe’s Creator “girl”, I am compensated with a gift card for each project. All purchases are my choice as well as my opinions.
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About Kim
Kim is the author of Today's Creative Blog where she brings you the best creative blogs out there. Being ranked #5 for overall best Craft Blog, she has featured over 500 blogs.
I desperately need to add some curb appeal to the front of my home. Specifically I need to pressure wash my deck, stain it and add a railing. I think it would help make it look cute and quaint just in time for those summer gatherings I so WANT to have.
My house needs color! Love what you did to your garage doors!
I need more color…..
I would buy new flower pots and patio accessories.
My front yard is in desperate need of some color in the flower beds, lights on the pathway, a small bistro sitting area on the porch to watch the kids play, and the house needs a good scrubbing.
Cute ideas! I needed to liven up my front porch!
I need to repaint my front door BADLY, and fix up my mailbox. I would love to add some shutters to my windows as well, I really think it would soften the look of my home!
We have a great front porch–I just need some spruced up furniture on it and some large planters.
I love your door color–ours is also a bright red and we have the same garage doors!
Everything! We have a big, beautiful country home that sits on over 40 acres. When my husband and I were still dating, I has grandeous visions for our home to be a place that would beckon friends and family to come and make memories with us. Between my husband and myself we have four children from previous marriages and I was determined to make our house a home filled with laughter, beauty and love. Well, 8 years later and all we’ve managed to accomplish is a tiny flower garden in the front! It’s sad because we have this gorgeous home with tons of yard space but ZERO landscaping or decoration…..so, when I say everything, unfortunately I’m not kidding..
ohhh, my home needs a ton for curb appeal. I’ve been trying, but it’s slow going. Some pretty flowers and mulch would really help a LOT!
great giveaway Kim!
Love the little changes you made. You have a beautiful home.
gail
I definitely need some pots and flowers!
We just resided our home, added new shutters and windows. We added new garage doors last year (with the same hinges – LOVE THEM). Now I need to redo my front porch, and I also need to add some color to my gardens. LOTS left to do.
I really need to repaint the trim around our garage doors and fill in old caulking… but I’d really probably buy cute new house numbers and some flowers!!
We really need to work on our landscaping — colorful flowers for the front of our house, and new shrubs for the side.
What a difference the hardware makes on the garage!
This rocks!
Your changes look awesome Kim!
We have a strip of yucky bushes on one side of our garage that should be torn out and replaced with something else!
My husband is in the process of redoing our landscaping in the front and it looks terrible!! But we’ll get there. Your house is so cute!!
Great giveaway! I just moved into my first house and it needs a LOT of TLC. The garage door needs to be painted, we need patio furniture, yard working tools, flowers and mulch for the front and back beds, something done to the garden, new fence. I have started working, but there is so much more to go.
Need to paint my boring white front door at bright color – I think it’s going to be red! (What color paint is yours?) Some pretty perennials couldn’t hurt also!
My gardens need help and I’d love to cover our front porch. We bought our house a little over a year ago. It had been abandoned for 2 years previous to that. It hadn’t been remodeled since 1970. The gardens were over grown and when we redid the roof in the fall it destroyed what was left. It’s not my dream house but someday it will be.
My house needs paint and shutters!!
More color from flowers and shrubs!
I love your red front door!!
I think I would paint my front door a new color – maybe a nice buttery yellow. Change out the mat to something cuter and add a hanging basket of flowers.
I would love to add some solar powered lights to our flower beds in the front of our house.
I need to get some flowers planted, my front door painted, some new bark down and a few sprinklers replaced and maybe a new door handle since no one can open my broken front door : ( Lowes here we come!!
My front porch needs new (and safer!) front steps so that people wouldn’t trip getting into my house! I would also get paint to paint the front door a much more appealing color!
Great giveaway! My house could definitely use some flowers and for the porch to be painted
We need new lantern lights for our front porch. The original ones are tarnished, and one is even crooked.
I’d also like to get new address numbers. It’s hard to see the number on our house unless you’re really close to the old numbers. Would also love to buy some wall decor and a planter for the front porch.
We already get Lowe’s magazine – great ideas, and a nice publication! Looks like you made some appealing changes to your home!
Kim! Your whole house is darling!!!! The befores and afters
I love everything.
Hubby and I are currently working on our front yard, I have a new corner to plant a garden outside my front door. I would love to buy some plants and a birdbath or garden statues. I also love your garage door makeover. It’s was so simple yet made such a big difference.
We are just buying a house so there’s a ton of stuff that we need to do! Starting with planting flowers and painting the front door
We’re trying to refinish the deck. It had about 3 layers of paint on it that were peeling when we bought it. We know we can’t get the paint off of the railing so we’re trying to get it off of the flat areas, water seal those so the natural color comes through and then paint the railings white.
Our front porch has gross carpet and super ugly rod iron railings. It so needs updating.
My mom is a single mother, so she often because of time and money she isn’t able to ‘update’ the yard. I would love to get her some flowers and such to give the yard a fresh look!
I would love to add touches to the garage door like you did. I also would love to add some color by planting some flowers and adding a bench to the front porch. Some paint for the front door would be awesome too!
Your home is lovely! Really like the exterior colors and your door? Red is perfect and model home!Thank you for tweeting the link. I may find my paint and fill my cart with summer annuals, too.
I’d love to add some nice new trees to the front yard. Thanks for the chance!
I’m already signed up for Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine. Thanks for the chance!
What a great facelift! We have a new portico on the front of our home thanks to our son but need to fit it with appropriate lighting now!
Our entire yard needs help. We have a lot of improvements to be made, but with a new baby comes a tight budget! We have a carport that needs to be fixed so we can park our vehicles in the correct place. We also could use some flowers! I’d love to have a succulent flower bed. We need some rocking chairs or a bench to put on our front porch. Winning this gift card would help us get a jump start at making our front yard & home welcoming!
Thanks!
Wow, Kim. I thought your home had TONS of curb appeal before !!! but you just tipped it over the edge with those carriage door hinges and handles. Love it! Everything looks great! My house needs some serious help. Landscaping, my deck needs refinishing, I want to paint my front doors and garage doors….but now I’m inspired by how cute your house looks!
Thank you Melissa! What a compliment coming from you.
my house needs just about everything and anything but I think I’d fix the porch up so my husband and I can sit outside and watch the kiddos play.
New outside paint job!
My shutters and front doors need to be restained! It’s on our list of “to-do’s”!! I also would love to spruce around my small front porch- new doormat, wreath, lighting, planter.
Seriously LOVE the hardware on the garage, adds curb appeal, style, and is just plain cute! Love the blue table also. Can’t wait to get my Lowe’s Magazine! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
oh gracious – what DOESN’T the front of my house need for curb appeal?! Truth be told, I have a “black thumb,” so my sweet daughter gets excited over the fact that one, random purple pansy made a random appearance recently. I do have a cute wreath I made, as well as an equally cute “No Solicitors” sign I made as well…but that’s because craftiness is my strong suit. We’re getting ready to put our house on the market, so I am certain that curb appeal is going to be one of the very first things we address. I’m thinking potted plants, and bright flowers planted in the flower beds. Thanks so much for posting this tonight! I’ve been looking for ideas and the pics are definitely inspiring!!!
My house would look so much nicer if it had a covered entry way. It could also use a paint job and maybe my front yard could be spruced up a bit!
I need some colorful plants!
My goodness, I’d take the before house! My poor little house is a yard of rocks, and the house is painted yellow, rust and primer…ugh! There are so many things that could be done it’s overwhelming! The idea magazine will be a great inspiration to get going on some projects!
Love the look of the garage now!!
I think I can do that!!
There is so much that I could do to add curb appeal to my house, definatly some new flowers and flower pots, paint my front door a bold color to stand out, definatly repaint the porch furniture. The list could go on and on…but thanks for the oppurtunity to be entered!
I think new shrubs, a new color on the door, potted plants, and a patio swing would really help the front of our house.
Great giveaway!! My house needs the front door painted and new flowers that can withstand this AZ heat!
I think just a little tlc would do it some good. A little paint here and there and getting the riding lawn mower to work would be amazing.
My curb appeal needs lots of color…so flowers flowers flowers!
Oh geez, there are gardening issues. I ripped out a bunch of weeds and tried to plant flowers, but it’s just not happening properly. I need more flowers, ones that do well in shade. And veggies out back.
We need lighting! We live out away from city lights and some low voltage lighting would really help out. I subscribed to Lowe’s Creative ideas.
The front of my house is so boring. I want to dress it up with one of those sweet, old fashioned wooden screen doors. You know, the one’s that slam because of the spring attachment. A Lowe’s card would surely help with that purchase! I signed up for the Lowe’s magazine. New ideas are always welcome. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
We need a new Storm door. Ours is in bad shape. But I would really like to put in a really different flower display in the front. Not just planted flowers but something with different heights and add some garden art.
I already subscribe to Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine and it is full of great ideas. I love it.
I’d love to add a living wall garden in my backyard! Which since I live on a corner shows off into the street. Also need a new front door. To be practical, I’d probably get the front door, or at least paint mine!
subscribed to Lowe’s Creative Appeal, can’t wait to read it!
We are in need of a little sprucing outdoors ourselves. Projects for this summer include: staining our fence, mulching the flower beds, keeping a small garden, and touching up outdoor trim with paint.
I really need to replace the lights outside my front door. Don’t know what took me so long to realize they are way too small for the space. Lowe’s has some lovely ones that would look great on either side of my front door. Love the way your garage turned out!
We need landscaping!
All of it! We built a new home, and we have to start our landscaping from scratch.
I subscribed, thanks so much for the info on getting the magazine!!
I need new color next to our front door. My pots are the standard terra cotta, and now that I’ve seen your idea for spray painting, I’ve gotta give that a try! They of course would need new beautiful flowers to fill them. It’s that time of year to add back what mother nature took away over the winter
Your yard looks beautiful! Myself, I need to paint the front door, paint the living room, redo the bathroom, organize the craft room…my list is endless!
I love the look of carriage doors, too! Only problem is that my doors don’t have the cut out windows on top. Would it look weird to add that hardware? I would love to do that to spruce up the house–oh, and add a good power washing, too!
I desperately need to replace bushes and add color with some planters and flowers. I need something hardy as I do not have a green thumb. I already subscribe to Lowes magazine.
Mine sweet little house needs much more than a little hardware and flowers. It needs a good scraping and paint job (I need to figure out what colors to paint that would go with my brick.) New lighting and lots of landscaping. And a new front door would be fabulous. I do love the Lowe’s magazine and have been getting it for a couple of years now. Great ideas.
We really need to have a new driveway put down. We could do all kinds of things to add curb appea, but the driveway would still be any eyesore.
Love your new updated look. I know this is not new but that pop of red is really great! We’re redoing the front landscape (hopefully) have just installed a sprinkler system and am having new sod laid but in desperate need of bushes, flowers, etc. It is so hot down here (SW Florida) that we have to be careful of what we plant but with a sprinkler system that should help. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize.
I need to do some work to the flower garden. Mulch, flowers, etc!
Signed up for their free magazine!
Your updates to your flower gardens and garage door really boost the curb appeal. Our front porch needs HELP. It needs a new floor and some TLC. Our shutters also need to be revived with a good paint job. The $100 card would help start us on our way.
Okay, I have everything crossed that can be crossed – and so does my family. We live in Northern Virginia – where the cost of houses is equivalent to CA! No way can we afford any curb appeal living here. The house we moved into has tiny white rocks and mismatched large stepping stones leading to our porch. It is crazy looking and hard to step gracefully on to ring our doorbell. We would have it paved!!!!! Goodbye tiny rocks, choking hazards for upcoming baby #3!
well i’d start with paint for the cement floor, outdoor rugs, lumber and hardware to build a porch swing, cusions and fabric and plants and lighting and and and.. obviously i chose to leave out many of the items on our wish list(ha!!!)
really nice work on your own outdoor updates! I especially love how the well the ‘crystal blue’ and red work together
We need flowers, herbs, pots, and paint. We move a lot. My husband is in the military and we need things that move with us and also give us a sense of home at each new place. II really like your after pictures you have some great ideas. Thank you!
I would LOVE to add some color and plants to our boring balcony! Thanks for the chance to win!
I need to repaint the front door and change the door lock!
Hmmm…what does my house need….
a bath (pressure wash)
new plants (ferns, succulents, ground cover, annuals (for pops of color)).
new paint for the front door
new light for front door
Cant wait for the magazine too!!! Super excited for the insipration!!!
I need paint for my rockers on my front porch, along with some plants for around the porch, and maybe a table of some kind to go between the chairs.
I need paint for my rockers on my front porch, along with some plants for around the porch, and maybe a table of some kind to go between the chairs.
My husband built an amazing fence years ago. We’ve never stained it. Staining it would make a hug difference in our curb appeal. Your house looks terrific! I love the blue table with the red chairs and front door.
I really need to add some color to our landscaping! Seeing all your flowers shows me what a difference a few blooms can make. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love your RED door and I actually like the rainbow arch! I would like to add some curb appeal to my front windows..maybe window box planters.
What my home needs the most for more curb appeal is a new coat of stain on my trim. It has been neglected for waaaay too long. We need to replace some of it also. So a $100 Lowe’s gift card would come in pretty handy. Thank you for the opportunity to win one!!
Your home is beautiful! My home definitely needs a backhoe to dig out all the bushes &shrubs in front. We have lived here 14 years and the plantings are enormous. No amount of pruning will do, they just need to be replaced so you can see the front of my pretty house!
I would love to repaint our wooden front porch swing and make it white and also add new lights to the porch too
I’d love to add a new lantern-style light fixture to our front porch! thanks for the chance!
I think my home could use an arbor and gate like your husband built. It is beautiful.
I’m dying to paint our front door or maybe even get a new front door.
I need to get going on my flowers
I was already signed up for the Lowe’s Creative Idea Magazine!
My home could use so much to enhance the curb appeal. This year we’re focusing on landscaping.
Our home needs a new mailbox and fence to up our curb appeal. I truly think our yard would be perfect with those two changes.
Our house needs some new shrubs in front of the house. And I already receive Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazine and love it!
My home needs so much help!! Two years ago, my husband got a new job that required us to relocate back to Washington State from Utah. Well, we weren’t able to sell our house when we had to move so we rented it out to some “friends”. Well they just let the house go while they lived there for a year and a half and now everything we had planted died, is overgrown, full of weeds, and dirty!
We are going to have a lot of work to do to get it back into looking great and having good curb appeal again…
My home could use some BIG planters in front of the garages…like yours but bigger;)
signed up for the Lowe’s Creative Idea Magazine!
we need shrubs and plants in the front garden and a new mail box
We are in a continual fixer upper and could use landscaping ideas, plants and building supplies too.
I would like to refinish our deck in a darker color.
awesome! my front of the house needs help! flowers and plants!
signed up!
Our poor sad deck needs attention-a good coat of paint and some new furniture!
I already subscribe to Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazine, and I love it.
Hi Kim! My home (okay, my apartment!) desperately needs something to make the front porch more appealing. I’d love to furnish it with some colorful hanging plants to take advantage of the southern exposure and frame those gorgeous dawns and sunsets and have a lush container sitting by the door as well.
I’ve signed up for the Creative Living magazine AND I’ve posted this giveaway on my FB page – The Bottomless Heart
We bought out home 4 years ago. Since then I have removed 6 of the 14 shutters that were on the front of the house (it’s a split-foyer) to bring the focus up. Repainted the kelly green shutters black, painted the brown door white, removed the juniper bushes and the 2 story tall rhododendron from the front of the house. We’ve tried planting japonicas (2 of the original 5 are still with us). I want something evergreen so that the foundation plants are dead/bare in winter. But I’m having trouble finding one that will stay alive. :/ Also, I’m wanting to paint the front door black. The white was a good switch from the brown stained door, but now I’m not feeling it anymore. Black would really stand out. Thanks for the chance to win!
I was already signed up for the Lowe’s Creative Idea Magazine.
We have been working a lot on our curb appeal. We stained the mail box post, painted the mail box, planted some flowers and pressure washed the driveway. It looks sooo much better now! The next project is to recover our porch swing cushion and put down some grass seed in the bare areas of our yard.
My husband has been working on our front porch for 3 years…it needs to be done already!
I need curb appeal at the front door – I want to paint it black – add a kick plate and then work on the urns and flowers!
THANKS for the opportunity to win!
My home seriously needs new front lights. Just changing those out would be a HUGE improvement!
My home needs to be painted to improve it’s curb appeal!
I need to add some planters to the front porch.
I signed up for Lowes Creative Ideas magazine.
I think a new front door or at least a new paint job on the old one would add the splash of color our house needs. I just signed up to receive the magazine…I can’t wait to take a look!
Our house has a front porch that spans the entire front…and it needs a few boards replaced and needs to be restained. Hubs is working on the roof this summer. Like you, I need to adds pops of color with flowers. I love the carriage house garage doors; I think I’ll do that too..it looks great!
Love the curd appeal changes and ideas. Thank you for offering the give away. I need curb appeal help!!!!
Something needs to be done with the flower beds. The dirt is so hard you can’t plant anything there, only weeds will grow. Some of them are falling apart and either needs to be repaired, or ripped out completely.
I love garages with carriage door hardware! Definitely adds a cute touch
I would love to have a privacy fence type using planters in the back patio.
DEFINITELY some big beautiful planters! We also have a little dead-spot between two bushes that needs filling with something fab.
LOVE the hardware on your carriage doors! The kapow-factor is stunning.
We need *everything* to improve our curb appeal, lol! We just resided our new (to us) home, so now everything else is on the list — a new painted door, finish off our new steps, paint our foundation block, plants, house numbers…..the whole shebang! =)
~ Mara
Our home desperately needs a new paint color for our front door and some flower pots for the front porch.
need more color and cleaner look
I already receive the Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine…and am constantly coming up with some project to try (a.k.a. convince my husband to make!!)
I would love to work on our front porch (b/c there isn’t one!) Would probably buy lumber and build an A-line porch/cover as our home currently has no “rain coverage” at the front door… need that in rainy Oregon!!
Thanks for the giveaway and great inspirations!!
My home need a pick me up! I would definitely change the light fixtures, get a new front door and add some colorful flowers. Your fabulous makeover has inspired me to make some much needed changes! Thanks for the opportunity to win, Kim.
I subscribed to Lowes creative ideas magazine.
I live in a condo – very cookie cutter. We aren’t permitted to make any exterior upgrades/changes but I’d love to have lots of pretty flowers on my deck – both in planters and hanging baskets. That would definately boost my curb appeal. =)
My front door needs a fresh coat of paint to improve my curb appeal.
I’d like to work on front flower beds
Signed up for Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine
Our house was a rental before we bought it, so needless to say it is definitely lacking in the curb appeal department. We planted some annuals this year, but other than that…it is untouched.
We just moved into a new home, and although the bones of outside are BEAUTIFUL, it definitely needs some waking up! I would love to change the front door and get the landscaping under control! I feel like we need some updated rockers too because the white wicker that is there {and is now yellow} just doesn’t appeal! I love your Adirondack chairs and I’m thinkng they would be perfect for our vision. Thanks so much for a chance to win!
My house could use some mulch and some plants for my new planters. I love your red accents! i want to do the same thing with orange, maybe not on my front door though
We need plants and landscaping to replace the 15 nasty Junipers we just ripped out that wrapped around the front and side of our house. We also need some new outdoor lighting.
I love the garage doors! That is a great idea, that I think I will incorporate into my house! I would also love a new front door. Ours is BORING!
I love the garage door hardware! I might need to do that to our home! We just built a new house so right now I’m working on replacing the builder’s landscaping with better looking plants and getting our grass to grow. Thanks for the chance to win a gift card-I feel e I’m spending our life’s savings at Lowes since we moved in last month!
Our deck needs refinishing and our porch needs help big time! Would love to be able to get this kick start to improving the curb appeal.
Oh, I am signed up for Lowe’s Creative ideas, too.
Our deck needs to be refinished. Lots of cool pictures you have!
I could use some plants to spice things up! Also a new porch light!
Our front porch needs to be painted.
Our home needs the fence pressure washed and stained. I would also add some landscaping and reseed the yard.
I need to paint the outside as well as add some new bedding plants!
Oh I already get their magazine. I love it.
Since we’re in a rental, and can’t do anything permanent, I would definitely need some planters and flowers and some patio furniture to make it feel like home!
Outside pots! Pots do better in Colorado weather, vs. in the ground. I love pots, and would love to buy some! Thanks for a chance.
We need everything, we have lived here 9 years and every single year we say we are going to plant bushes and flowers and then of course we never have the money to do it. So you can say our home lacks serious curb appeal.
To rent a mini skid steer to level and grade my back yard. Right now we are “shoveling” it and it’s back breaking work! Need about 14″ of dirt removed to fix the drainage problem we have…the living room floods every time it rains..;o(…
We are buying a home soon, and it’s going to need a lot of love and curb appeal. Would love a little something from Lowes to help us get started! Love your red door by the way <3 Maybe that will be first on the list?
I signed up for the newsletter. I have no real curb appeal. So I have absolutely everything to change. We had a bush that died and some trees in our yard. We really need to fix the flower beds and fix the grass/weeds. I would love to work on this. I would also love to paint our front door and do some touch up since pant is falling off around the garage doors. I would also love to find some good drought resistant plants and make an herb garden on our back porch.
Our front porch and walkway need desperate help. There is nothing there that is welcoming or inviting.
Our house is getting there, but I think we need a better looking screen door and new railings- the concrete steps are solid at least, but I hope to make them prettier. Our garage needs to be painted too, but at least that’s in the back so you don’t notice it right away.
edging! like fancy, nice looking, edging, not the black plastic nonsense we’ve got.
This would be so great! My house def needs some Curb Appeal
My home needs plants! And some flower beds. And a fun painted front door!
I would love to paint my door and add some fresh greenery to my flower bed. We are about to close on our new house so there’s plenty of projects I could use a Lowe’s card for
What a great Giveaway! My house could totally use a update… we are redoing our front porch and need paint and a few new flowers would be fantastic!
I just signed up for the Lowes Newsletter!!!
We could use a landscape architect!! LOL Love your blog, thanks for sharing such great ideas!
We could use some grass seed and mulch!
Our entry way sidewalk lacks curb appeal. We could use some grass or seed, because it is really bare in some spots and gets muddy! I also would love to either tile or stain the entry way. Thanks!
Our entry way sidewalk lacks curb appeal. We could use some grass or seed, because it is really bare in some spots and gets muddy! I also would love to either tile or stain the entry way. Thanks!
The primary thing I need to do is get all the scattered shoes off my front porch
Seriously though something as simple as an overdue painting of my porch swing would help a great deal. On my list!
Our house REALLY needs outdoor lighting. A new front door light…landscape lighting…everything! Please help!!
I’d like to add some rockers & new lighting to the front porch. Thanks for the giveaway!
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we could use some new lighting along the front of the house and a new garage door (walk door and big door), also something on the front door.
i would like to add some landscaping
Could use this to add bushes to our landscaping!
I love Lowes, and need a new paved walkway.
Oh wow, I love your home, it’s beautiful! And I love that you spray painted the terra cotta planters! Our house desperately needs a paint job! We have stucco and the color they painted it originally is just a terrible shade of grey, and I actually LOVE grey, just not the shade they chose. And the purple-ish trim on the eaves is peeling like crazy so while we have a million other projects around the house, I think painting would be the biggest improvement for now.
Thank you Jessica!
The porch rails needs to be painted and the lighting would benefit from an upgrade and refreshening. I love showing at Lowe’s more than anywhere!! Thanks.
We need the front porch railings painted BAD! Gutters done last, now to have money for the porch! If we could find a self cleaner for them too for afterwards, even better! Dreaming I know!
Thanks!
I think some help for our grass would add a huge amount of curb appeal!
Still needing a little help in the plant department, but I’m working on that!
Our home needs the details…. accessories, like you’ve been doing. Love the garage doors!
My front yard is in desperate need of some landscaping! I would get some new mulch and flowers!
Would love to win! Need a new screen door!
We have a front bed that could really use some plant additions. I believe that’s what I’d do with the gift card. That or stain our fence which is also on the top of the list. I’ve been enjoying Lowe’s Creative Ideas for years and am already a subscriber.
I love the updates on your home. I think mine actually needs a professional but if I had to choose one thing it would be exterior paint!
My front porch really needs to be painted and a splash of color added to the door! Thank you for the giveaway.
I love curb appeal.
Right now what I need is my front patio to be cleaned up. There are weeds sprouting between the pavers. Also need our water fountain cleaned up and filled with water.
I need some color on my front porch – like some hanging art work – would love some extra cash to get some boards, and make a brightly colored welcome sign!!!
I want my front flower beds landscaped!
ohhh….our plants in the front could use some sprucing up. So could the light fixtures and house numbers. what a big improvement just that would be!
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I have no potted plants in front my house. I need color!
I need some curb appeal because my porch doesn’t face the street, so I need something to make the sides of my drive way to look much nicer.
We could use some landscaping. We recently transformed our front porch and now need to have landscaping to match. We have NO flowers or bushes! I do already receive the magazine, love their ideas!
Great Giveaway… I would like to add a few potted plants to my front and/or create a privacy area for my garbage cans (patio stones and white fence panels). You can see the the cans from the road and I don’t think it looks nice. Thanks again!! AJ@queenofmynest
BTW… forgot to say – Signed up for the Magazine! AJ@queenofmynest
I’d love to paint my front door a fun color. It’s currently a very dark, bland hunter green and I’d like to freshen it up a little for my tastes (not the previous owner’s!). Thanks for the chance!
My house needs some color and new screen doors. It would be so awesome to win this gift card. Lowe’s has the most awesome plants and flowers ever!
My home needs some serious color. It’s so……… blah. It’s my very first house & it was a foreclosure. The only way that I could’ve ever afforded it, but anyway. It take time to repair or replace broken or outdated items in a house. So the curb appeal has been mostly on the back burner, for now that is.
We rented out our home for a few years. Now we are trying to fix it up after the renters. It needs a major over-haul. The front yard is so boring with a circle drive in front of the covered front porch. It only has grass and bushes in front of the porch. I need help! Thanks
WOW! So many great ideas to use for our home! My husband and I came home from a trip to find a water leak and mold… we’re off to Lowe’s for bathroom remodeling ideas!
I have all of these great repurposed “planters” on my front porch. They are empty and need some life/color added to them for some curb appeal. I am currently subscribed to the Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine and love their simple projects!
In July 2010 we lost our house due to foreclosure & have been renting since then, last year in May my best friend’s rental house became available for us to rent. When she bought this house, I helped her move in. A few years later she moved up North & has been renting it out. Last May God worked out all the details & we were able to rent from her, it was a blessing both ways. As soon as we moved in it felt like home & I fell in love with the house….a few months ago she offered to sell us the house & carry the paperwork. As of yesterday 5/31/12, we closed escrow….and now are the proud owners of this wonderful house. The front could use some curb appeal with new light fixtures & some new plants…my husband has a great eye for landscaping.
Thank you…
I could actually use a new paint color for the house. Or some grass seed for the patchy areas would be great.
I signed up for the Lowe’s magazine on my ipad!
I need to something/ anything to my dreadfully plain front door entry. It is awful! Also need new plants for the flower beds by the entry (lost them when we had the foundation leveled due to the Texas drought). Thanks!
LOVE the carriage garage doors!!!! Doesn’t fit with my house style…. but a fresh plants in my entry flower pot sure would look nice! Also flowers for my new flower box that I got for mother’s day… she’s been asking for some greenery
paint! and I love your tall vases/urns. I’ll be shopping for one of those to put next to my front door. so much to do right now, but then so much to enjoy all summer long!
This is a toughie because my answer is different every time I think about it. I need pavers! I need to paint my front door and entryway! I want a birdbath.
Decisions….
A driveway/garage would definitely help, lol! Thanks for the giveaway!
Been trying and trying to get to those Lowe’s hinge straps (they are no in store) and can even get there from Lowe’s website. I NEED them badly for the shutters I just built and hung on my house AND for the garage door!
HELP ME KIM!
Pam
oh and p.s. – send me a link if there is a way to order them through Lowe’s – I LOVE Lowe’s!!!
Pretty please!
My dear Pam…..I had to special order them from Lowe’s. I couldn’t find them on their site either. They were very helpful in showing me ones to pick out, and then order. They arrived in about a week.
What curb appeal? We pulled daying old holly bushes years ago and now it is just a big empty blah. The red maple tree above is slowly disintegrating limb by limb. Yikes.
I need to repaint the hanging lanterns as they have faded as well as add flowers in the currently empty planters on either side of the door. Oh and restain the shingles that have faded on the front of the house. Thanks for the chance at a little help.
I would love to repaint my front do and get some outdoor decorations for my porch!
we could use work on the front yard -we need curb appeal down the sidewalk an across the front. we have an arbor, but no fencing…
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I love the way you spruced up your home. I live in Florida and miss the character that northern schools have.
We need some nice,but easy to take care of, landscaping. Also the cracked cement in our front pathway desperately needs to be replaced, or better yet, pavers will make it more appealing.
We need a new garage door…BAD! I always loved the carriage door look. However, now I’m thinking to go with a plain door and DIY the fancy hardware. I bet the money I’ll save will be better spent on my other crafting needs!
I really needs some nice throw pillows and some potted plants!
We live in a condo with a small yard and we definitely need to improve our yard. If we won the gift card, we’d hit Lowes for annuals and some garden accessories.
Actually to improve my yards curb appeal it needs a total make over,=) short of that, I could start with mulching some area’s to look better…
Carri Wright
Probably the best thing our house needs for curb appeal is to replace the trees out front. I foolishly put silk ones out there because I found them on a clearance sale. They looked fine at first, but after two summers of blazing sun, they have faded to an odd lime green color that makes it very clear they are fake.
PS: Looking forward to seeing you at EVO! I can’t wait.
umm….What DOESN’T my home need to add curb appeal! Exterior paint, I LOVE the carriage hardware and want to add that to my garage, and the flower beds in the back are hideous! I’d love to win this g/c and put it to good use!
My house needs some flowers in the front, and we need to replace the retaining wall.
Your house is SO lovely, Kim! And, the combo of red & blue that you used is one of my fave color combos!
Love this giveaway. And what do I NOT need for my house to give it some curb appeal?
We have columns framing our entryway that are badly in need of re-staining (they get beaten down by the sun as our house is south-facing), I’ve been dying for some large planters to help frame the entryway, new solar pathway lights, some fresh paint for the outdoor furniture, and I have been dying to paint our door a luscious rich lime color… that’s just to start! 
Thanks for the giveaway!
I SO need to win this. We had a flood 2 years ago when we bought our short sale and had to do an unplanned remodel which has really drained finances. Our neighbor asked me when we were ever going to get to the yard – THAT was embarassing. So we really need to pull out some of the clay, add top soil and landscape. BADLY!
I would definitely add some color. I currently have two planters with nothing in them. Also would love to add some seating out front for when the kids are riding bikes.
I would like to update my front porch with some pretty pots and summer blooms.
As you pull into the driveway…need some landscaping done with flowers,mulch,rocks etc;.
I get the lowe’s creative magazine by mail thanks
My flower beds are in dire need of attention!
They need a big make over.
I need shrubs and flowers lining the sidewalk!
I subscribed to the magazine!
We need more work done in our yard. It is only half done. It does look like a mess out there!
I so want to add the hardware to my garage doors. My husband like yours is dragging his feet. I am going to show him this and I think he will jump on board. thanks.
My front door and porch needs a new paint job!
We need some more color in our yard – it’s mostly green and brown lol. I LOVE Lowe’s and would love to brighten up our yard for better curb appeal!
I am signed up for the Lowe’s newsletter (love the tips!)
I need a new front door!! Thanks for the great giveaway
We need to build new steps to our covered porch!
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I need some ideas on painting a front door and adding more curb appeal to my exixiting plants…we just moved into a house this past winter and have to wait for all the plants to bloom to see what I am working with!! I am subscibed to the newsletter…ps love the red door!!
Need some color in my front yard and around the front porch. Spent $1.25 for some WHITE petunias and that’s the extent of it! Like most, finances are tight and what I could do with that gift card. Thanks for sharing your home – looks great!
Great ideas! We are working on creating a brand new front garden. We would like to add a dried riverbed with lots of plant on the outside. Also, we would like a nice bench or bistro set for the front porch.
We need to freshen up our flowers & paint the garage!
Love what you did …great inspiration!
The projects are endless at my house but the CG would come in handy for a porch redo
Our home is in desperate need of new landscaping! We pulled out some way overgrown, mostly dead bushes and need to replace them with something beautiful!
We could use some potted flowers and a fruit bush in front of our home. We rent a town home and there’s a big space where a bush used to be in front of our living room window. We can certainly spruce that up a bit.
You did a great job, I love the red and teal!
Your house looks wonderful! My favorite idea was spray painting the terra cotta pots and fountains….I spray paint A LOT of things but never thought of a fountain….
I would use the $100 gift certificate to paint my front door. It is still white from when we built our house. I also would buy some bark dust to freshen up my flower beds. In addition, I would buy a cute doormat and install some decorative metal brackets to put up some hanging flower baskets.
It looks better in my mind already!
Oh my you have such an adorable house! I wished mine (townhome) looked as cute as yours. Maybe someday I will have enough of a house to be able to decorate with such charm and curb appeal.