Maintaining The Curb Appeal Of Any Home Can Be Simple and Affordable

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The topic of boosting or keeping the curb appeal of your home is of utmost importance for many home and property owners. Things like trimming the bushes, mowing the lawn, planting flowers, refreshing the gardens to name a few are what come to mind. Adding some allure to your home can be quite simple and can be done on a shoestring budget. It either requires some resourcefulness and ingenuity to do it on your own, or currency to pay a professional to handle the job. The determining factor of how the job will get done, (DIY or hiring out) is decided by the complexity of the project.

Here are some simple projects you can do to spruce up the home:

1. Fine Tune The Lawn

Giving your lawn some tender loving care is a common do it yourself project that not only adds instant curb appeal to your home but is relatively simple if you have the equipment to do so. So break out the lawn mower and cut the grass each week. There are also other yard work projects that can be done but it is best to hire a trained professional to do them, such as core aeration or dethatching, also called power raking. We reached out to a professional who provides aerating and dethatching in Champlin, MN, “These tasks can be done manually with spiked shoes to aerate, but rarely do they outperform a core aerator machine. Homeowners can rent aerators, however more often than not, the rental and time spent picking up, returning home, operating on your lawn and returning the machine costs more than just paying a contractor. One can also hand rake their entire lawn but it can be incredibly time consuming and frustrating.”
The contractor has this informative video discussing the yard sprucing services they offer and recommend homeowners seek out.

If you have lawn related questions, they can be reached here:


Anticipated cost: Cutting the grass each week with your own lawn mower will cost nothing except the fuel for your machine. If you want to have the lawn core aerated by a professional is usually around $75 – $200 depending on the size and complexity of your lawn. Dethatching or power raking is generally around $100 and is done in the early spring.

2.  Trim Your Bushes

Yard Clean Up in Champlin

Yard Clean Up in Champlin

Nothing can look more untidy on a home than a bunch of overgrown shrubs, hedges, bushes and trees with their branches hanging to the ground. For most shrub trimming and tree pruning projects, these can be achieved with a simple hand pruner for the tree branches and renting a hedge trimmer. The hard part is gathering up the branches and hauling them away. You could either hire a local tree service that can come pick them up for a fee, or if you have a vehicle of your own and a yard waste site nearby, it would only cost the fuel. Just make sure to prune your trees early in the season before the buds for leaves begin to sprout from the branches, as the tree uses a lot of energy to produce these buds, therefore to cut these branches that are actively growing could stunt the tree for the future.

Anticipated cost: A set of pruning sheers for a tree will run you about $50 plus the disposal fees unless you use them as firewood, provided that you have a place to store the wood as it dries. Hiring a tree service and shrub trimming company to perform this can vary depending on the work required, expect a minimum of $150 and upward from there. If just needing a crew for the haul away, shrub trimming can be cheap, around $20 if a lawn crew uses their large debris vacuum. A tree service can come out and chip the branches for probably around $75 if not making a separate trip.

These two projects alone will completely revamp and revitalize the appearance of your home. After these basic yard and landscape maintenance projects, you will be surprised as to how good your home will look and you can boast about it to the neighbors as they look at their dismal lawn, low hanging tree branches and overgrown shrubs.