Bring Out the Landscape Designer in You with These 7 Easy Ideas

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Creating a unique landscape design for your home is a great way to express your creativity and save money in the process. Whether it’s a softscape of colorful blooms or a hardscape like a paver pathway, creating and maintaining a beautiful landscape shows pride of ownership and enhances your home’s curb appeal. Why not make your home stand out and add value with the creation of a backyard retreat or a garden oasis? You’ll be the envy of the neighborhood when you put the creative DIY side of you into action. While designing a landscape may sound pricey, there are some simple things you can do yourself to make it look high-end, and you don’t have to be a master gardener or design maven to do so. With these easy landscape design tips, you’ll spend more quality time with your family and less time pulling up weeds:

  1. Create a Path with Stepping Stones

Creating a pathway with colorful stones adds a touch of class to your garden and will help keep the weed population down. Inexpensive stones come in many shapes, sizes, textures and colors. Cluster them together or form unique shapes to create a pathway. This is an easy and fun way to elevate your garden and for the entire family to join in to help!

  1. String Some Lights

Whether you want to create a romantic feel, add mood lighting for a dinner party or special occasion or even add security to your backyard, why not light it up by hanging pretty string lights or different color lanterns that cast a warm glow. These inexpensive lights can be found at your local Target or Walmart and will make your backyard festive and party-ready all year round.

  1. Create a Small Bird Sanctuary

Choose a small area in your garden with tree cover (birds need to feel safe from prey) and line it with colorful rocks to create your bird sanctuary. Add a few fun bird feeders with birdseed that you’ll find online or in any home improvement store. You can add a freestanding birdbath and a bench to make it cozier. Enjoy watching all the different species of birds that flock to your yard.

  1. Line a Pathway with Potted Plants

An easy way to make a decorative statement and welcome friends and family to your home is to line a walkway with pots of luxurious plants or colorful blooms. Consider the amount of sunlight your path gets, and then choose the appropriate type of plants for full sun or half sun.

  1. Add Perennials

Perennials are a garden favorite and staple, much loved for the color and beauty they add to your landscape and the consistent blooms they produce year after year. Note the height of the plant on the tags so you can place the larger plants in the back and shorter ones in the front. Make sure you know how much sun each plant requires to maximize its growth potential.

  1. Add Edging

Setting off your garden with edging conveys the perfect finishing touch. Edging will not only keep your mulch in place, but it will add a polished look to your beds or vegetable garden. You can use various kinds of edging, such as paver stones, natural rocks, bricks, decorative fencing, rubber edging, and more. Just be sure to choose something that works nicely with the look of your home, whether it’s traditional (stone edging) or more contemporary (metal edging).

  1. Just Add Mulch

Simply adding mulch in a darker contrasting shade to your flower beds will create a stunning background for your blooms and make them really pop. Mulch also helps to keep those dreaded weeds that plague your garden from growing and adds moisture to your flower beds, so your plants thrive.

Financing for all Your Home Improvement Projects

Now is a great time to think about your next home improvement project, whether it’s a new landscape design or a new kitchen or bath. If you need help to finance your dream project, NP, Inc. can help! We offer a cash-out refinance for all your home improvement needs. As a top trusted national lender, we have assisted homeowners with financing for homes and home improvement projects for over 25 years. Just contact one of our experienced loan officers at usmtg.com to discuss all your options!