Light up your Curb Appeal for Christmas in St. John's!
Amazingly, we're already into another Christmas season! The bright lights are already appearing on some homes in St. John's and area, and more will no doubt be lit with each passing day. For most of us, this time of year means lots of shopping, decorating, baking, and celebrating. In the midst of all that activity though, some of you will also be in full real-estate mode, as you prepare to buy or sell a home! That can create some added stresses, but you can also blend it all together into a win-win situation.
Let's face it: homes can look and smell great at Christmas time. All the bright lights, nice decorating touches, greenery, and the delicious smell of fresh baking mixed with the fresh aroma of a freshly cut tree can bring your home to life. So give some extra thought to how you can improve the curb appeal of your home this season. You may find it can pay big dividends. At the very least, you'll find your home even cozier this Christmas.
There are lots of great ideas to be found on the Internet — albeit with many of them laden down with more Google Adwords than decorating ideas — so feel free to Google. But if you want to spend your hours decorating instead of clicking in and out of spammy ad sites before finding the ones with something real to offer, we have some quick links to get you started. Of course, no discussion of home decorating would be complete without Martha Stewart, so we'll start right there. We were especially impressed with Martha's Christmas Lights photo gallery. Not only do you get 15 very nice lighting ideas (including the glowing gift boxes shown in the photo), but you also get full instructions for creating them yourself. You'll also find other photo galleries, complete with instructions, for Christmas trees, Christmas Decorations You Can Make or Buy, and several more ideas for filling your home with the Christmas spirit.
Another trusted name for decorating ideas is Better Homes and Gardens, and their Website is lit up with plenty of ideas for Magical Outdoor Christmas Lights as well as 29 Creative Christmas Wreaths. I have to admit we didn't think it was possible to find new ideas for wreaths at this point, but we found several here. Well worth checking out!
A bit closer to home here in St. John's, Canadian House & Home has their Outdoor Holiday Decorations Photo Gallery. Several of these ideas are more decorative than Christmasy, so you may find they serve to brighten up your property long after most of the season's decorations have been packed away for another year. In this blog post we've been exploring ways to boost your real estate investment by improve your curb appeal. However, if the whole decorating thing is getting you excited, you'll find this Website also has photo galleries, decorating idea, recipes, and entertaining tips for almost every holiday of the year, so you might want to bookmark this site for ongoing reference.
If you prefer video rather than pictures and text when looking for Christmas decorating ideas, take a look at House to Home. It's a British Website with several videos exploring "hundreds of great ideas for Christmas from craft ideas to decorating inspiration." We didn't count to see if there were actually hundreds, but the videos are indeed pretty full of ideas, so we're comfortable in recommending it as a site worth checking out.
So there you go. We started this post by saying that these ideas would help you build your home's curb appeal, and many of them certainly should. However, these ideas will of course brighten any home, whether visions of real-estate agents dance in your head or not! So take a look through these links, and enjoy all that the season has to offer, whether you're buying, selling, or settling in for a long winter's nap.