Adding Vibrance to the Outside of Your Home

Adding Vibrance to the Outside of Your Home

The following contribution is from another author.

Color has long been seen as one of the most powerful tools in a designer’s arsenal. Not only do the shades you see help to build associations and memories, they can often have an even more powerful hold over your emotions. Living somewhere with the right colors can make you into a happier person. To help you out with this, this post explores the outside of your property, and the resources which can be used to transform it into a beacon of vibrance. Not a lot of people go down this route, making it hard to find places which have embraced the need for a pleasant space.

Flowers

It’s easy to assume that you won’t be very good at something like gardening when you haven’t tried it before. In the past, keeping plants alive was always an ordeal, with only those who enjoy the struggle feeling keen on taking part. Nowadays, though, there are loads of products which make creating a beautiful and colorful garden a breeze. If you don’t have space on the ground for this, hanging baskets can often be installed. As a side benefit to this sort of option, you will attract more wildlife to your home when you have plants around.

Paint & Siding

Taking a more traditional approach, adding color to your entire home is becoming very trendy. Some of the world’s most popular architects are using this sort of technique on their buildings, and it is a great way to make the whole place more lively. You can learn all about exterior paint with a quick search around the web. Along with options like paint, siding can also be used to add some color to your home, with some modern options coming in bright shades which you didn’t find in the past. Both of these routes are perfectly good, but you will have to choose the one you use based on the type of building you own.

Lights

Finally, as the last idea to consider, a lot of people like to use ornaments to decorate the outside of their home, but this will always run the risk of looking tacky. If you’d like to find a way to spice the place up while maintaining its appeal, lights can be an excellent tool. Finding color changing options which will work outside has never been easier, with LED strips costing a fraction of what they used to. One of the key benefits of an option like this is the ability to turn it off whenever you like. Of course, though, unless you get very bright lights, they won’t show up during the day.

Hopefully, this post will leave you feeling inspired to start working on the outside of your home. While this part of the house isn’t seen from within, people on the outside will see it all the time. This makes it worth putting some time into, especially if you care about the look and feel of the building you live in.

Author

Eric is the creator of At Home in the Future and has been a passionate fan of the future since he was seven. He's a web developer by trade, and serves as the Director of Communication and Technology for a large church in Nashville, TN (where he and his family are building a high tech home in the woods).