First impressions are lasting Impressions, try these tips to enhance your Helena, MT home curb appeal!

1. Make sure the yard is neatly mowed, raked and edged.

2. Prune and shape shrubbery and trees to compliment your house.

3. Consider adding seasonal flowers along the walks or in the planting areas. Plop the plants into a well-placed wheelbarrow, an old-fashioned washtub, or what have you. Such standbys as nasturtiums, petunias, impatiens, and verbena are easy to maintain if you only remember to water them regularly. Try a row of sweet smelling alyssum to line a short sidewalk or pop in some perky dwarf marigolds to form a cheerful oasis of color in your yard. The local nursery’s will offer great advise to what will & what won’t grow in Montana’s short growing season. Also, another main concern is finding plant species that our local deer population do not eat, the nursery’s will help with this also!

4. It is important to devote at least one area of your yard to outdoor living. Buyers will still recognize a scene set with a picnic table and chairs and respond positively to it. Cover your picnic table with a fringed, red-and-white checked cloth set out some plastic plates and glasses bring out the barbecuing equipment, and buyers will almost smell the hot dogs cooking!

5. The driveway is no place for children’s toys. Not only are such things dangerous, the clutter is unsightly.

6. The surface of your driveway should be beyond reproach; after all, it’s one of the first things a buyer will see when he drives up. Sweep and wash the driveway and walks to remove debris, dirt and stains. Repair and patch the cracks, edge the sides and pull up any weeds. If it is in the winter months, keep the driveway & walkways shoveled & clean of snow & ice.

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