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Archive for June, 2010
Summer Is the Time for Porches!
If you are selling your home or not, it’s time to spruce up that porch for summer with a little home staging. Often we forget about our porches. We let them languish either in the front or the back of our homes with barebones furniture and a container of flowers from the local plant store.
But this summer, let’s get it together and make the porch a special place. If you are selling your home, it is really important to show potential buyers some wonderfull outdoor spaces for dining or just reading a book.
Here are some simple steps to sprucing up your porch:
1. Clean the porch and furniture using a pressure washer if needed to remove cobwebs and pollen.
2. Bring out the colorful seat cushions and pillows (throw pillows like the blue ones here are easy to make).
3. Plant some impatiens in a coordinating ceramic pot. Impatiens are good if you have a shady porch. Use marigolds or some other sun lovers if you have a sunny spot.
4. Borrow some indoor decor, like your favorite glass vase and fill it some faux grasses.
5. Hang a metal sculpture.
6. Lay a cotton rug or two.
7. Grab and good book, fill up your iced tea glass and enjoy!!
