Simple tips to present at a home or garden show
This news article seemed like it would be very relevant to home show exhibitors who are looking for topics or ideas for show presentations.
John Gidding from the HGTV show "Curb Appeal" offers his five tips presenters could show homeshow goers:
1. Mailboxes: Get a new one or paint and properly install your old one. Crooked mailboxes are everywhere and it’s the first thing people see when approaching your home. This is a cheap and easy upgrade. Finish the look with some plantings at the base for added color and life.
2. House numbers: Get two matching sets, and install one on your new mailbox, and the other at your entrance. Feel free to be creative — next to the door, over the pediment, perhaps on the riser of one of the stairs if you have a staired path leading up to the door. Just make sure they’re large enough to be seen, and match the style of your home.
3. Paint your front door: This is one of the signature “Curb Appeal: The Block” fixes. The show designers paint almost every door they come across. Find a complementing color that will also draw people’s eyes to the front stoop. It really makes a huge difference for how you and visitors feel when entering the home.
4. Sitting space: Put some kind of inhabitable space in your front yard. This could be a little bench along a path, a small box with an outdoor cushion on top right next to your door (this also doubles as a place the mailman can leave a package), or even a small bistro set on your porch if you have one. The implications of having some seating in front of your home are wide-reaching because they impact your whole street. When people start spending time in their front yards, communities start getting stronger. Also, it implies that you are proud of your neighborhood, that you like spending time there — and that increases the perceived value of your home.
5. Lighting: Solar lights have come a long way and are great for lining up a driveway, but Gidding recommends spending a little cash and hiring an electrician to pull some power out to the front of the house to install some sconces around the front door, possibly a pendant or chandelier if you have the porch space for it. He also recommends a light around the front of the property where the mailbox is.
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John Gidding from the HGTV show "Curb Appeal" offers his five tips presenters could show homeshow goers:
1. Mailboxes: Get a new one or paint and properly install your old one. Crooked mailboxes are everywhere and it’s the first thing people see when approaching your home. This is a cheap and easy upgrade. Finish the look with some plantings at the base for added color and life.
2. House numbers: Get two matching sets, and install one on your new mailbox, and the other at your entrance. Feel free to be creative — next to the door, over the pediment, perhaps on the riser of one of the stairs if you have a staired path leading up to the door. Just make sure they’re large enough to be seen, and match the style of your home.
3. Paint your front door: This is one of the signature “Curb Appeal: The Block” fixes. The show designers paint almost every door they come across. Find a complementing color that will also draw people’s eyes to the front stoop. It really makes a huge difference for how you and visitors feel when entering the home.
4. Sitting space: Put some kind of inhabitable space in your front yard. This could be a little bench along a path, a small box with an outdoor cushion on top right next to your door (this also doubles as a place the mailman can leave a package), or even a small bistro set on your porch if you have one. The implications of having some seating in front of your home are wide-reaching because they impact your whole street. When people start spending time in their front yards, communities start getting stronger. Also, it implies that you are proud of your neighborhood, that you like spending time there — and that increases the perceived value of your home.
5. Lighting: Solar lights have come a long way and are great for lining up a driveway, but Gidding recommends spending a little cash and hiring an electrician to pull some power out to the front of the house to install some sconces around the front door, possibly a pendant or chandelier if you have the porch space for it. He also recommends a light around the front of the property where the mailbox is.
View the original article here.
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