Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
29.02.2024 - 19:28 / growingfamily.co.uk / Catherine
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If you want to prepare your house to sell, you’re probably considering the need for repairs or improvements. Projects such as installing frame sliding glass doors are a great way to increase your home’s value and make it more attractive to buyers. Or you can save costs by staging the property for pictures, sales videos, and viewings; something as simple as rearranging furniture, painting walls, or altering the colour palette can have a big impact.
Homes that have been staged tend to sell for more than those that have not. Viewing videos, high-resolution images, or a virtual tour of a well-stage home will give buyers a positive impression of the property’s layout and features. If your home is less than clean, poorly lit, or cluttered, potential buyers may be less inclined to take a look.
This article will cover seven low-cost ideas that can increase your home’s worth and help you generate more interest from potential buyers.
To make your home more desirable to prospective buyers, the easiest and least expensive thing you can do is to declutter. Removing some of your possessions will help potential homebuyers to see your property as a blank canvas, just waiting to be embellished with their own style.
Tackle this task methodically, working on one room at a time. You can donate unwanted items to charity, given others a new life via recycling or upcycling, and get rid of everything else. The reward at the end of this job is a home that feels more spacious and organised – two things that buyers will love.
A simple, low-cost way to refresh a room is to paint the walls, skirting, and doors. Using light, neutral hues will create a sense of space, and also help to maximise natural light.
Prior to inviting potential
Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
From the lone Irish yew tree, first discovered growing in Co Fermanagh in the 18th century, whose countless offspring now flourish in gardens all over the world, to the great Irish gardeners, garden makers, planthunters and plantspeople who have made valuable contributions to the world of horticulture, we have many reasons to be proud of our unique gardening tradition. Here are some suitably horticultural ways to celebrate Ireland’s “40 shades of green”.
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If you have a pile of cardboard boxes sitting around your home and aren't quite sure what to do with them, consider reusing them to create home decor accents or a playhouse for your kids or pets. With a sturdy structure thanks to an inner layer of fluted material, a cardboard box can often be useful a second or even a third time.
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Sowing a seed directly into the ground, nurturing it, and reaping the rewards is one of the easiest gardening activities you can do—yet many gardeners don’t. There are many reasons to direct sow. Often, you’ll have earlier harvests because the seeds will germinate when it’s the perfect time to grow, and stronger seedlings because transplant shock isn’t an issue. Planting seeds in general (instead of buying transplants) gives you more varietal options, and you can also save a lot of money (1 packet of 30 to 150 seeds often costs less than a 6-pack of plants). And then there is the personal satisfaction factor. Ask any child who has planted a sunflower seed how they feel when that flower towers over their head, and you’ll understand what I mean.
Are you wondering about the ways you can use to grow houseplants without soil? Can it be sand, water, or any other medium? Let’s learn!.
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Common juniper (Juniperus communis) is one of only three conifers native to the UK. It’s a member of the cypress family and grows on chalk or limestone in lowland areas, and moors, woodland and cliffs in northern Britain. Juniper is in decline in wild populations and has been designated a UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species. This special tree has disappeared from several areas in the south of England. Many remaining colonies are so small that they’re considered functionally extinct. Scotland is now the stronghold for 80 per cent of the UK’s juniper trees.