Top Tips for Getting Your Garden Market-Ready
Getting Your Garden Market-Ready
Selling your house can be challenging, but you can be pro-active to get a quick sale for the best price. One step you can take is to enhance and add value to your outside space and garden.
To help you on your way, Sherry FitzGerald are working with Maddie Dineen of Maddie Dineen Garden Design, a finalist RTE’s Super Garden, 2017 and one of Ireland’s top garden designers.
Charm is what people should feel when entering your garden. Here are my top tips for creating a more charming outdoor space to add value to your home!
Tips for your garden before putting it on the market
1.Hide Offending Objects
First of all your garden should be clean and uncluttered. You can declutter on a low budget by putting up a trellis and planting some climbers to hide offending object like boilers, oil tanks or bins. Put sports goals, trampolines, and bikes in temporary storage until house is sold. Clothes line should be removable or placed out of sight.
2.Dress Up Your Shed
If you have a shed, paint it a bright colour. Add a pretty planter with some annuals on either side of your shed to add interest. By doing this, you can turn something functional into something with a homely, casually elegant feel.
3.Add Light
You can paint your fence or wall a contrasting colour to the shed to enhance its appearance. Another big trend over the last few years is good garden lighting, to enhance your lovely plants at night. This can be done cheaply with solar lighting, and therefore is particularly good if showing your property in the early evening in winter.
4.Freshen Up with Plants
Most importantly draw the eye down to the garden with lush plants and cheerful flowers. Plant in-season, colourful potted plants near your French door or back door. Invest in some grasses and prairie-style planting to give the impression of maturity.
5.Introduce a Small Patio
It is very on trend to entertain at home, and gardens have become a much stronger feature in homes all over Ireland. Therefore it is very important that the first impression is a good one. Have a place to sit down and relax, and place your table and chairs in the sunniest part of the garden. Furthermore, you can create a patio on a low-budget with pebble-edging and some outdoor furniture. I encourage clients to use the same style of décor in their garden as in their homes. Dress your patio furniture with a pretty tablecloth, cushions for chairs and add a vase of flowers (weighted down by stones).
6.Always Mow Your Lawn
This one explains itself!
7.Biggest Trend 2018:
Outdoor rooms are very on trend at the moment. Creating a covered space over your existing patio is increasingly popular because it allows you to enjoy and use your outside space. I always encourage clients to get rid of the step outside their back door or French door and bring it to the same level as the house. This brings the outside in, and vice-versa, while also being very user friendly, and good for children. It makes the garden become part of the house. Outdoor rooms are my speciality, so don’t hesitate to get in contact!
Please click on the following link to contact Maddie:
http://landscapingdesign.ie/process/
Finally to further enhance your garden for the autumn, Paul Kirwan, Horticulturalist at Archers Garden Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo offers some great tips for planting pots and containers on the following youtube video.
For further information and advice on selling your home please contact Sherry FitzGerald Feeney West at:
https://offices.sherryfitz.ie/ballina