If you want to spend the summer upgrading your home with a worthy renovation project, we highly recommend focusing on your exterior appeal. Curb appeal, as it’s otherwise known, tends to go a little neglected in the home renovation world, but it’s one of the most valuable investments you can make as a homeowner. After all, if the house looks good from the outside, people are going to be excited to see the inside!
Summertime is also a great time to get things done. While the weather tilts toward the hot side of the gauge, it’s actually a little easier to get big structural work done! A small chance of rain, moisture can be removed with a dehumidifier, and you can take more time getting bigger jobs done without worry.
So let’s get your home’s exterior looking good again! Here’s why your curb appeal deserves some focus over the next couple of months.
Sunshine Is Perfect For Showcasing The Best Side Of A House
When it’s sunny outside, you’re going to see the best your property has to offer. This means you get a much clearer, closer look at what’s going on around the exterior. From here you can decide what renovation jobs really need to be done, such as fitting new guttering or ripping off the old siding.
Once you’re done with your project and the house is up to scratch again, the world passing by has a much better chance of seeing the appeal of your home. It’s not blocked by rain and wind and storm clouds above; it’s breezy blue skies for the next few weeks, which also makes taking real estate photos a lot easier! If you want to sell, take pictures when it’s sunny.
Less Moisture Means A More Stable Ground
If you’ve been planning any big changes to your home’s exterior for a while now, working on them during the summer period almost guarantees smooth progress. Why? Because you’ve got solid ground to work with, and you won’t have to stop for the weather to consider how that may affect the moisture level either!
Indeed, when there’s less moisture in the ground, the soil isn’t going to shift or sink anywhere near as much as it would during any other season of the year. You can plan out your renovation and/or extension, get in an Approved Contractor, and then set your working window to the timeframe that actually works for you.
Of course, the ground may also be a little more dry than you’d really like it, but dry soil is much easier to work with than wet, muddy soil, thanks to the way you can add moisture until it’s the right consistency for you.
Paint Has More Time To Dry
Noticed your home’s exterior could use a little more color? Don’t head out and buy the paint now; if you want to paint your home, save the job for the summer. Exterior paint tends to be fast drying in general, but if you apply a fresh coat of paint when it’s sunny and there’s no rain to worry about, the paint is more likely to dry properly.
This will lead to far less fading and flaking over the next few years, and the protective seal that exterior paint applies to a house won’t be disrupted by excess moisture. Give your paint a lengthy drying window by waiting until it’s summertime and your curb appeal won’t be plagued by chips and cracks in the paintwork!
Plants Are More Likely To Flower
If you decide your front garden needs a little TLC, and you’d like to get some more plants growing and intermingling with the rest of the wildlife, a summer curb appeal project is more likely to lead to thriving, flowering plants, shrubs, and bushes.
Of course, the earlier you plant in the summer the better, but even late August plants have a much better chance of flowering going into the autumn period. There’s plenty of sunlight, you can provide them with the water content they need, and the ground is likely to be more welcoming for their root systems as well.
Upgrading your curb appeal is the best thing to do during the summer. If you’ve been putting off a few jobs here and there on the front lawn and the backyard, now’s the time to get them done! Start with the siding, fill in the gaps in the paint, and get new seeds thriving in the ground.
Meg is an author at Cinnamon Hollow. She writes on a variety of topics sharing tips and ideas for daily life.
