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Readers Respond: Give Your House Curb Appeal

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Curb appeal is that elusive quality that makes a house warm, welcoming, interesting, and inviting. Curb appeal will make a house easier to sell, but it can also make your home so enjoyable that you want to stay.

Have you discovered a way to bring out the beauty in your own home? Tell us what you did to add curb appeal (or what you hope to do, soon). We'll add your ideas to this page.

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Adding an inviting entrance

I think creating an inviting entrance or porch, with an interesting colored door, and providing a little privacy with plantings and an interesting walkway gives an immediately cozy and approachable feeling to any home. Any warm colors on the siding or landscaping adds that feeling. With white vinyl siding, adding a warm colored door, paving, and flowers would be excellent choice.
—Guest Glush Dada Ozturk

Add Lights!

Our street is really dark and no one could even see my house at night. So I tucked solar lights in the garden bed and hung a Frank Lloyd Wright pendant light from the porch ceiling. The lights didn't cost much and the play of light and shadows is perfect.
—Bronzebook

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