Four Ways to Dress Up Your Home’s Exterior

After 10 years as a premier homebuilding company, as Green River Builders designs each exterior elevation and interior floor plan, the overarching goal is to create homes that are a bold blend of beauty and functionality. We strive to ensure that every one of our homeowners feels an undeniable sense of comfort inside their homes. Moreover, we want them to feel an irrefutable sense of pride each time their home comes into view as they head into their driveway. Either by enlisting our help during the design and construction phases or in the months and years after our construction trucks have left your lot, there are four key ways you can “dress up” your home’s exterior.

1)     Statement-Making Landscaping: Beautifully executed landscaping is a wonderful way to set the tone for visitors to your home upon arrival. From an air of luxury to a sense of whimsy, the exterior should be well-matched to what they can expect inside. While GreenRiver Builders takes pride in the professional landscape packages we provide to our homebuyers, you can always take it to the next level with raised flowerbeds teeming with color, expertly groomed ground cover bordering your front walk, well-placed shade trees framing your front façade and more. Hanging plants overflowing with flowers and topiaries are either side of your front door serve as living extensions of your landscaping.

2)     Gotta Love Great Lighting: With landscaping as impressive as what we’ve outlined above, you’ll still want to show it off once the sun goes down. From the romance of up lit trees to the soft glow of accent lighting along the front path, professionally designed and installed landscape lighting can add a sense of drama, while lending added security to your home. Since your home is the STAR of the show, well-placed spotlights can showcase your front facades best features – making you the envy of your neighbors.

3)     Have You Considered Hardscaping: While nearly every homeowner has considered landscaping before, there’s a lotto be said for the impact of professional hardscaping. Unfamiliar with the term? In its simplest terms, hardscaping in anything that isn’t living or organic in your landscape design. It’s the pathways, landscape borders, patios, gazebos, fences and benches. If you have stone accents on your front façade, you might consider building a landscape border that features that some stone around your front flower beds. If you have a brick-front façade, you may want to replace your concrete front walk with brick and mortar for increased charm. A garden arbor or patio pergola can be designed to match the timber accents on your front porch. A fire pit out back can be of the same brick or stone you used to augment the front of your home. Whatever you elect to do in this arena should serve as an enhancement of your home’s design – not stick out like a sore thumb.

4)     Life is Bigger and Better Outdoors: If you have a front porch or if the rear of your home is visible to passersby on the street or from the water, you’ll want to create outdoor living spaces that complement the look of your home’s exterior AND serve as an extension of your interior design. If the overall sense of your home is one of luxury, stay true to that with your outdoor décor by incorporating timeless seating – such as wrought iron settees, chairs and tables – softened by pillows in upscale prints and fabrics. A lake home is ideal for Adirondack chairs and décor that evokes a sense of welcome combined with an air of adventure. A farmhouse-inspired home begs for inviting rocking chairs and a porch swing with more colorful and fun décor.

From exterior elevation to outdoor living spaces, Green River Builders invites you to create the home of your dreams with us. To discover the Green RiverDifference, view our list of communities and learn more about our luxury lake homes, visit www.GreenRiverBuilder.com.When you’re ready to start building towards your family’s future, call us at770-790-1096, email us at GreenRiverBuilder@Gmail.comor fill out our secure online contact form and one of our team members will be in touch with you soon!

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