Curb Appeal on a BUDGET//This Is a GOOD One!

[00:00] not everybody has an amazing house some

[00:02] of us live in a very modest house that's

[00:06] relatively boring it doesn't have a lot

[00:08] of architectural elements that make it

[00:10] jump off the page so how do you take a

[00:12] house that is is pretty bland and make

[00:15] it amazing how you do it is with

[00:17] landscaping curb appeal i'm going to

[00:19] show you exactly how we're going to take

[00:21] something super boring and make it

[00:23] awesome

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[00:28] if you're new to the channel my name is

[00:30] bobby cam professional landscape

[00:31] designer install and i love to help

[00:33] people usually very busy people

[00:36] with their landscaping they don't they

[00:37] don't quite know what a space can look

[00:39] like or how to update something or make

[00:41] it look cool

[00:42] we're going to jump right into this

[00:43] we're going to go into the design we'll

[00:44] have a little time lapse going on i'm

[00:46] going to fire off a bunch of tips that

[00:48] break down the design and help you and

[00:50] give you out some cost effective things

[00:52] that you can do when it comes to your

[00:54] landscaping and by the end of the video

[00:55] i'm going to tell you how much it costs

[00:57] if you were to pay someone or if you

[01:00] were to do it yourself which i think a

[01:02] lot of us are diy-ers nowadays and

[01:05] that's pretty important to know what am

[01:06] i going to be paying if i want to have

[01:08] this look let's go

[01:10] so the first thing when you got a house

[01:12] that's pretty bland pretty flat there's

[01:13] not much going on is have fun with the

[01:16] beds bring those beds out away from the

[01:18] house create some depth in the design

[01:20] one thing that i think is super cool

[01:22] that i haven't done on a lot of

[01:23] designing is i really had fun with

[01:25] curves going on here where i brought it

[01:28] away from the house a good probably 12

[01:30] feet off that corner brought it around

[01:33] and then connected it and hooked it all

[01:35] the way down to the mailbox and so it

[01:37] gave this really cool shape not only to

[01:40] the beds but to the lawn so play with

[01:43] curves have fun with them and bring

[01:44] those beds off the house and create

[01:46] depth

[01:47] the second thing to create even a little

[01:49] bit more depth and interest is with

[01:52] these trees we got these two cherry

[01:53] trees so instead of everything being

[01:55] bushes and flat and down to the ground

[01:58] we created some height by putting a tree

[02:00] over in the corner and a tree over by

[02:03] the walkway that we've got going on so

[02:05] it's almost like as you pull up you kind

[02:07] of go around that first tree opens up to

[02:09] the house it creates a little bit more

[02:11] interest versus everything just being up

[02:13] against the house and flat so have fun

[02:15] with heights have fun with textures have

[02:17] fun

[02:18] with funds fun you know just have fun

[02:21] with different kinds of plans and

[02:23] different kinds of colors and textures

[02:25] and heights and that is going to create

[02:27] interest with something like this the

[02:29] third thing that i really like is we

[02:31] busted out the old concrete walkway that

[02:34] was just your typical kind of came out

[02:36] hooked over

[02:38] end of the day and we created a paver

[02:40] walkway which ups the value it's a

[02:42] cooler material

[02:44] a little bit of money is going to go

[02:46] into that but it's only about 25 feet

[02:48] total by three feet wide so it's not a

[02:51] ton of square footage and you take that

[02:53] walkway you bring it out you bring it

[02:55] out and away from the house and kind of

[02:56] go along with the curve of the bed it

[02:59] just really flows really neat

[03:02] the last thing that i think is the x

[03:04] factor and something so small in this

[03:07] design is the mailbox a lot of people

[03:10] don't ever even look at a mailbox or

[03:12] when they do a mailbox it might be brick

[03:14] and mortar or a veneer stone but in this

[03:17] way we did some wood and we would stain

[03:20] it and that gives it this modern

[03:22] contemporary vibe so we just took this

[03:24] like old nasty sorry it's not old and

[03:26] nasty it just hadn't been touched since

[03:28] like 1950

[03:29] house

[03:31] and we gave it a modern vibe by upping

[03:33] the landscaping working with curves

[03:35] putting some different colors and

[03:36] textures in updating the walkway

[03:39] updating that mailbox and man this thing

[03:41] is a cherry i think it looks awesome

[03:44] night and day better and then the final

[03:46] thing you do is you light it all up you

[03:48] put some lighting in there you light up

[03:50] the mailbox you light up the trees you

[03:52] put some intimate path lights along that

[03:54] walkway and this thing

[03:56] screams curb appeal absolutely screams

[03:59] it so how much does this all cost

[04:01] if you were to do this yourself all the

[04:04] plants the wood the trees couple

[04:06] boulders the lighting i think you're

[04:08] going to be in for about 3 500

[04:12] that's what you're going to spend you

[04:13] might have a little bit of turf repair

[04:15] you can either do seed and straw on the

[04:17] outskirts or you can do sod

[04:19] if you're going to pay a company like

[04:21] mine to install this

[04:23] you're going to be closer to

[04:25] the 8 to 10 grand range depending on the

[04:28] quality of the lights how many lights

[04:30] you put in just a couple of different

[04:32] factors so there is a savings obviously

[04:35] with paying a company or doing it

[04:37] yourself versus paying a company but

[04:39] here's what i want you to think about

[04:41] are you better off

[04:43] paying a company and doing what you do

[04:46] or going out and thinking you're saving

[04:48] three to four grand but putting in a ton

[04:51] of sweat equity going out and getting

[04:53] the plants and just really using your

[04:57] time there versus using your time doing

[04:59] what you do and making money it's

[05:01] definitely something to think about if

[05:03] this is something that you want to take

[05:04] some pride in you want to say i did the

[05:06] front landscape i'm all for it i get it

[05:08] when you get out there and you start

[05:09] digging and you mess with that shovel

[05:11] and it's 100 degrees you might think

[05:13] otherwise and you might want to hire a

[05:14] company

[05:15] so

[05:16] if you like this kind of video go watch

[05:19] this video i got some other really cool

[05:21] little gems in that one if you want to

[05:23] define a small space or make something

[05:25] pop off the page see on the video

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