How to Add Value to Your Home's Landscaping
A well-designed space is beautiful and adds to your home’s value, but it’s so much more than that. Improving your landscape with new additions means that you’re investing in your home — according to the ASLA, professionally landscaped homes can increase resale value by 15 to 20 percent — and your family by creating memories they’ll never forget. In this blog, we’ll show you how to add value to your home’s landscaping with a few luxury additions.
How to Add Value to Your Home’s Landscaping
Adding value to your home’s landscaping is easy when you know what other buyers are looking for — and when you realize what will add the most enjoyment for you. Getting outside to exercise or relax has a positive effect on a person’s mental health, and it’s much easier to do when you’ve got everything you need at home. Here are our favorite ways to add value to your home’s landscaping.
Add Softscaping for Luxuriously Natural Results
Landscaping includes both the softscaping (natural, living elements of your backyard) and hardscaping (structural elements of your backyard), but the starting point to really make your outdoor space feel like home is the softscaping.
Flowers, bushes, trees, and shrubs are a great way to add some green to your landscaping to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Then, your home’s curb appeal improves so you can show it off to your neighbors or increase your chances of a sale. Plus, a garden area helps reduce mowing time, and you can use mulch to help prevent weeds, so it’s all fairly easy to manage. To determine what kind of plants and natural elements you’d like to include, write out a list of your favorites to get started.
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Building an In-Ground Pool or Hot Tub
Adding a hardscape like an in-ground pool or hot tub adds a lot of value to your home for its eventual sale and for your family to enjoy. Swimming is a great exercise for all ages, and being outside improves a person’s overall happiness. Instead of having to face the busy public pools, your family can stay home and even invite some guests over. It’s a great way to socialize and make friends with neighbors, so it benefits more than just the overall value of your home.
Adding an in-ground pool or hot tub brings you virtually infinite possibilities for what you can create. Do you have dreams of adding a fun-filled space with water features and a swim-up bar? Or maybe you have a relaxing and ambiently lit backyard with a poolside spa built in. Whatever you have in mind, the right landscape designer and builder can bring it to life.
Enjoy the Outdoors with an Outdoor Living Room
If your family already spends a lot of time in the living room, extend it outside to an outdoor living area. Then the whole family can get some fresh air, and there are even more places to relax. Depending on your needs, you can include lots of features like a fireplace, fire table, outdoor couch, and outdoor TV. Fire features are a great addition because then you can still enjoy the area on those colder summer nights and extend your time outside into the late fall and early spring.
Creating an outdoor living space looks a little different for everyone and can include a gazebo or pergola or be a fully enclosed space if that’s what you envision. It all depends on your wants and needs. If you’d like to spend time outside year-round, a more enclosed space is perfect for Minnesota winters whereas an open space can keep you more connected with nature.
Spend More Time Outside with an Outdoor Kitchen
Grilling has become a favorite pastime for the summer, so go all out if you’ve got an avid griller or someone who loves to host parties. An outdoor kitchen has become a popular addition for backyard landscapes, so it’s a great investment for the enjoyment of your family and overall market value.
There are so many outdoor kitchen luxuries that any chef or cook would be drooling over — and the best part is they can be outside with the family on beautiful summer days. Whether you dream of a wood-fired pizza oven, kitchen and bar combination, or grilling heaven, an outdoor kitchen can encompass it all.
Enhance Your Property with Hardscaping
On top of the fun additions, there are a few functional ways to improve your home’s value. Adding retaining walls, paver patios, walkways, and landscaping lighting can pair well with all the other new additions to your home. Plus, it can help tie everything together if you opt for a few different outdoor options.
Increase Your Minnesota Home’s Value with Landscaping
Whether you’re ready to sell your home or want to make an investment that your family can enjoy for years to come, learning how to add value to your home’s landscaping with both function and luxury in mind is key.
Our experts would be happy to start discussing your landscaping job if you’re interested in investing more in your landscaping. Outdoor Innovations has been in business since 2007 and excels at large-scale projects like pool construction, outdoor kitchens, retaining walls, paver patios, and so much more. Whatever backyard dreams you have in mind, we can design and build them. Contact us today for a free consultation.
Outdoor Innovations Landscaping creates elevated backyards for homeowners in Minnesota. From in-ground pools to luxurious grilling stations to outdoor living rooms, we do it all. Explore our past projects and get a quote online to make your dream backyard a reality.
