[0:00] not everybody has an amazing house some
[0:02] of us live in a very modest house that's
[0:06] relatively boring it doesn't have a lot
[0:08] of architectural elements that make it
[0:10] jump off the page so how do you take a
[0:12] house that is is pretty bland and make
[0:15] it amazing how you do it is with
[0:17] landscaping curb appeal i'm going to
[0:19] show you exactly how we're going to take
[0:21] something super boring and make it
[0:23] awesome
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[0:28] if you're new to the channel my name is
[0:30] bobby cam professional landscape
[0:31] designer install and i love to help
[0:33] people usually very busy people
[0:36] with their landscaping they don't they
[0:37] don't quite know what a space can look
[0:39] like or how to update something or make
[0:41] it look cool
[0:42] we're going to jump right into this
[0:43] we're going to go into the design we'll
[0:44] have a little time lapse going on i'm
[0:46] going to fire off a bunch of tips that
[0:48] break down the design and help you and
[0:50] give you out some cost effective things
[0:52] that you can do when it comes to your
[0:54] landscaping and by the end of the video
[0:55] i'm going to tell you how much it costs
[0:57] if you were to pay someone or if you
[1:00] were to do it yourself which i think a
[1:02] lot of us are diy-ers nowadays and
[1:05] that's pretty important to know what am
[1:06] i going to be paying if i want to have
[1:08] this look let's go
[1:10] so the first thing when you got a house
[1:12] that's pretty bland pretty flat there's
[1:13] not much going on is have fun with the
[1:16] beds bring those beds out away from the
[1:18] house create some depth in the design
[1:20] one thing that i think is super cool
[1:22] that i haven't done on a lot of
[1:23] designing is i really had fun with
[1:25] curves going on here where i brought it
[1:28] away from the house a good probably 12
[1:30] feet off that corner brought it around
[1:33] and then connected it and hooked it all
[1:35] the way down to the mailbox and so it
[1:37] gave this really cool shape not only to
[1:40] the beds but to the lawn so play with
[1:43] curves have fun with them and bring
[1:44] those beds off the house and create
[1:46] depth
[1:47] the second thing to create even a little
[1:49] bit more depth and interest is with
[1:52] these trees we got these two cherry
[1:53] trees so instead of everything being
[1:55] bushes and flat and down to the ground
[1:58] we created some height by putting a tree
[2:00] over in the corner and a tree over by
[2:03] the walkway that we've got going on so
[2:05] it's almost like as you pull up you kind
[2:07] of go around that first tree opens up to
[2:09] the house it creates a little bit more
[2:11] interest versus everything just being up
[2:13] against the house and flat so have fun
[2:15] with heights have fun with textures have
[2:17] fun
[2:18] with funds fun you know just have fun
[2:21] with different kinds of plans and
[2:23] different kinds of colors and textures
[2:25] and heights and that is going to create
[2:27] interest with something like this the
[2:29] third thing that i really like is we
[2:31] busted out the old concrete walkway that
[2:34] was just your typical kind of came out
[2:36] hooked over
[2:38] end of the day and we created a paver
[2:40] walkway which ups the value it's a
[2:42] cooler material
[2:44] a little bit of money is going to go
[2:46] into that but it's only about 25 feet
[2:48] total by three feet wide so it's not a
[2:51] ton of square footage and you take that
[2:53] walkway you bring it out you bring it
[2:55] out and away from the house and kind of
[2:56] go along with the curve of the bed it
[2:59] just really flows really neat
[3:02] the last thing that i think is the x
[3:04] factor and something so small in this
[3:07] design is the mailbox a lot of people
[3:10] don't ever even look at a mailbox or
[3:12] when they do a mailbox it might be brick
[3:14] and mortar or a veneer stone but in this
[3:17] way we did some wood and we would stain
[3:20] it and that gives it this modern
[3:22] contemporary vibe so we just took this
[3:24] like old nasty sorry it's not old and
[3:26] nasty it just hadn't been touched since
[3:28] like 1950
[3:29] house
[3:31] and we gave it a modern vibe by upping
[3:33] the landscaping working with curves
[3:35] putting some different colors and
[3:36] textures in updating the walkway
[3:39] updating that mailbox and man this thing
[3:41] is a cherry i think it looks awesome
[3:44] night and day better and then the final
[3:46] thing you do is you light it all up you
[3:48] put some lighting in there you light up
[3:50] the mailbox you light up the trees you
[3:52] put some intimate path lights along that
[3:54] walkway and this thing
[3:56] screams curb appeal absolutely screams
[3:59] it so how much does this all cost
[4:01] if you were to do this yourself all the
[4:04] plants the wood the trees couple
[4:06] boulders the lighting i think you're
[4:08] going to be in for about 3 500
[4:12] that's what you're going to spend you
[4:13] might have a little bit of turf repair
[4:15] you can either do seed and straw on the
[4:17] outskirts or you can do sod
[4:19] if you're going to pay a company like
[4:21] mine to install this
[4:23] you're going to be closer to
[4:25] the 8 to 10 grand range depending on the
[4:28] quality of the lights how many lights
[4:30] you put in just a couple of different
[4:32] factors so there is a savings obviously
[4:35] with paying a company or doing it
[4:37] yourself versus paying a company but
[4:39] here's what i want you to think about
[4:41] are you better off
[4:43] paying a company and doing what you do
[4:46] or going out and thinking you're saving
[4:48] three to four grand but putting in a ton
[4:51] of sweat equity going out and getting
[4:53] the plants and just really using your
[4:57] time there versus using your time doing
[4:59] what you do and making money it's
[5:01] definitely something to think about if
[5:03] this is something that you want to take
[5:04] some pride in you want to say i did the
[5:06] front landscape i'm all for it i get it
[5:08] when you get out there and you start
[5:09] digging and you mess with that shovel
[5:11] and it's 100 degrees you might think
[5:13] otherwise and you might want to hire a
[5:14] company
[5:15] so
[5:16] if you like this kind of video go watch
[5:19] this video i got some other really cool
[5:21] little gems in that one if you want to
[5:23] define a small space or make something
[5:25] pop off the page see on the video
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