It’s no surprise when people are doing spring home improvements to welcome in the new season. The motivation to make some home renovations is oftentimes a result to adapt to the climate. But of course, these modifications can maintain the sturdiness and provide a refreshing look at your home.

Your home exterior is the one the people see on a regular basis. Oftentimes, your home is criticized by what they see in your exterior. This is why your home exterior should be on top priority for modification especially this spring season. Here are some great ideas on adding spring touches to your exterior home:

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Take some time to plan for your spring home exterior design. Make it look like an extension of your character or personality.

Get your garage updated

Your garage is obviously making the scenery on your exterior. This is an area of your home wherein renovations are easily noticed by people outside. You can have it repainted to give a brand new look in an instant. Also, you can change the materials used on your roof. This will be a noticeable change to your exterior.

Customize decorative items

This is something that will capture their attention. It’s a decorative fill in a plain view. For instance, if you have a plain and wide wall, you can add a parapet or a molding to enhance its look. You can also hang on customized planters of lighting fixtures to make it look lively and interesting.

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Broaden your entrance

One of the best ways to make your home exterior look elegant is to enlarge your entrance. As you see it in luxurious hotels or mansions, entrance door is commonly wide and huge. This will provide a decent illusion of the majestic view from the outside. A nice two door opening is something that you might want to consider.

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Home improvement is always so exciting. You can feel the pressure and thrill all throughout the process. From the creation of the blueprint until the construction, you just can’t take your eyes on looking into the details. Everything should be in accordance with your specification and meet your expectations.

More often than not, improvements are done by portion or section of your home. This is an advantage on your part since you can easily supervise the whole construction. Just like when you’re planning to improve curb appeal on your historic home, everything should be done perfectly to highlight the change.

Here are simple ideas to improve curb appeal of your home:

Choose the best color combination

Paint color does the magic. Whether it’s for interior or exterior, you can always count on the colors. So, if you plan to improve the curb appeal of your home, choose the best color. This can be achieved by combining colors to highlight the edges. It is best to highlight lines and curves with dark color shades and have the background with lighter ones.

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Hang antique lanterns and brackets

This is basically a must if you plan for curb improvements. Lanterns and brackets are great decorative items especially when you match them with your theme. For instance, a historic home setting can be well compensated with antiques lanterns and brackets. It’s like icing on the cake.

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Have a show-stopping window

Your windows can make the best of your enhancement. Explore on having a thick molding that surrounds your window to provide accent. This brings highlight to the window frames and commands the attention to any passerby. Also, try different window styles you desire.

These are great ideas that you can use for your curb appeal and definitely worth a try.

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Did you know that your main door may provide a clue to your personality? Let your impeccable taste show through your choice of entry door worthy of representing you and your family.

So what does your main door say about you?

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Wood-stained Main Door

If you prefer main doors that are stained rather than painted, there’s a big chance that you’re a nature lover. You appreciate the rustic beauty of wood finishes and feel the rustic appeal of wood-stained door best suit your personality. When people see that you have this kind of front door, they may have an initial impression that you’re someone who’s big on outdoor adventures.

Main Door with Glass Panels

Wooden doors with glass panels are more inviting than those without. This allows your guests to get a glimpse of the inside of your house without entering the house. It makes people see you as a transparent person and they will be more comfortable around you because they believe you don’t have anything to hide. Such doors give an impression of warmth and hospitality.

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Main Door With Intricate Designs

Most people are aware that made to order wooden doors with intricate designs are quite expensive. Ornately designed wooden doors give off the impression of luxury, of well-maintained household and wealth.

Worn-Down Main Door

This gives off the impression of an ill-maintained home. Doors that are worn down have to be replaced. Depending on the damage, adding a fresh coat of paint should give your main door an updated look.

Bright-Colored Main Door

Bright colors indicate happiness, youth and vigor. It also makes that statement for you that you want to stand out. Your house may look similar to those who live in your neighborhood but you can still make your house look livelier with a brightly colored front door. A bright red door or a lemon yellow door will do great for a vibrant home.

If you choose to go with a colored door, you should also know about what the color you choose can say about your personality. Here are some of the most popular colors used for main doors and their meanings:

Brown

Main doors can be brown in color either through paint or wood stains. This color emulates someone who loves the environment. According to psychologists, brown has contrasting meanings. Their positive attributes include stability, reliability and warmth. However, darker shades of brown may express that a person does not function well in a large group so he or she would prefer to be left alone.

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Red

Psychologists have proven that the color red signals passion. If your main door is painted red, you give the impression that you are a very outgoing person who loves having fun and going on adventures.

Green

This color is well-loved by most people for one very obvious reason. Green exudes the color of good health and peace of mind. In psychology, green means harmony, safety and tranquility. Anyone would love to have these in one’s home.

Black

Main doors painted black express professionalism, sophistication, and strength. Black indicates authority and tells others that the person who owns that house treats his home seriously.

Blue

Studies show that blue is the most popular color chosen by many for their main doors. According to psychologists blue shows serenity, calmness and comfort. People love the color blue because it makes them forget all their problems once they enter the front door.

Everyone should be aware of the fact that main doors give others a hint of the homeowner’s personality. Wooden main doors create a big impact on the first impression people get when they visit your house for the first time. Choose the color and design which would best describe what you want your visitors to think about you.

Jove Arthur is a very detail-oriented carpenter. He also works as a sales manager at Door Emporium, an NJ-based company which offers a fantastic selection of wood entry doors, solid wood doors, and other equally beautiful interior doors.

For more exterior door ideas on Stagetecture, click here.

Today’s project? Give your front door a facelift with easy ideas and inspiration. Whether you remove your existing door and give it a new finish like this You Tube video from DIY Network, or you choose paint colors that are inviting to guests and compliment the architecture and exterior of your home, you will love these ideas.

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Also don’t forget about simple accessories – door numbers, door hardware, and even porch lighting can make a huge difference! Here’s to a new look for your front door.

You Tube Video – DIY Network – How to Give your Front Door a Facelift

Tips to give your front door a facelift

Whether you want to revamp the entire door or just change up some key elements, here are some tips from resources around the web.

Refinishing

One of the best ways to update the look of your door is to refinish it. Select a location that is out of direct sunlight and be sure the weather is decent enough to leave the door open for a while. You will need to remove the door from the hinge. Scour off or strip off the peeling paint on the door. Sand down the surface. Next, apply two coats of an oil-based primer that is slow drying. You can then use an oil based pain or a latex topcoat. Try a different color or change up the stain color.

Changing Out The Hardware

If you like the color of your exterior doors, or if you still want to add something more to the look, change out the door locks and other hardware. Switching from silver to gold, for example, seems like a very simple change but it will make a dramatic difference.

Exterior doors are often forgotten. Yet, a simple change or facelift for the door will make a significant difference in the look of your home. Take into consideration the way your home looks from the street. Could your front door use a facelift? If so, exterior doors may be a good way to get started. – tips via

Paint your front door

Paint your front door. Brighten it with a new paint coat of its current color, or use a new hue. Paint the door trim white for a clean, fresh look, or choose a color that complements the door’s shade. Take the time to do the job correctly: Sand off the old paint, apply a primer, let the primer dry and apply the top coat of paint.

Remove old, damaged, outdated trim and surround your door with new, updated trim. Choose a style that goes well with the overall style of your home.

Add a faceplate and doormat

Add a faceplate or replace the existing faceplate. Replace the doormat with a new one. – tips via

Your front door is on its way to looking fabulous! You just may want to enter your home from the front door now instead of the garage!   (Or is that just at my home?)

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The outside of your home is beginning to dethaw from the harsh winter and curb appeal is one of the forefront topics in Stagetecture’s – “Home Renewal’ month this March. This is the perfect time to start thinking about how to make your home look better, feel better, and welcome guests to your property.

Evening exterior address signage is not only important for guests to find your home, but in the evening time it can be the difference between your guests finding your home or not.

Today, my Guest Blogger is Dan Springer, from EVERLITE Tile & Illuminated House Numbers of Lake Geneva, WI. Dan is going to outline tips for you to add curb appeal to your home and enhance your exteriors with their illuminated signage.  Their low voltage lighting and solar options are eco-friendly, and that means a win- win for you and the Earth!

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Everyone’s obsessed with adding value to their home.  Of course, this is a natural outgrowth of buying a home, and if you have one, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Ask any decorator, and they’ll tell you that curb appeal is the first thing people notice about a home.  Or, in the case of all those poor delivery drivers schlepping antique furniture or that expensive new fridge with the brushed metal finish or whatever other item you obsessed over buying for months or even years to make the interior of your home an absolute delight, your home is literally getting passed up and probably cursed at.

Wouldn’t it be the worst if you built a new staircase, added central heating and cooling, hand built a gorgeous library, added new marble countertops in your kitchen, painted every wall top-to-bottom, and absolutely broke your back adding real value to the interior of your home only to have a buyer pull up to the curb and grimace at the first sight of your shabby entryway?

Ouch.

Well, never fear!  There are several easy things to do for your home’s entryway that are very easy but highly valuable to the look of your home.

Add Visibility!

Can anyone even see your house or is it just an inexpensive imitation of The Black Hole of Calcutta at night?  Do you notice your pizza orders always seem to be just a bit late rather than right on time?  It might not be the pizza guy’s fault.  A house’s address has got to be the number one curb appeal fail amongst homeowners.  Install a light that accents your door and cozies it up (or just buy a lamp and screw it in, lazy bones), get an exterior door with a large window for a more inviting “look inside” feel, or get more visible house numbers and replace numbers that are becoming an eye sore.   You could also illuminate your existing house numbers or replace them altogether with something totally new and stylish.

Keep it tidy!

This is of course a basic rule, but the consequences of not sweeping up on a regular basis, cleaning the windows and dusting down things a bit out there can’t be underestimated.  Salt stains, gunky windows you can’t even see inside of, and other such sloppy hallmarks are all-too-common in a surprising number of entryways world-wide.  Get the broom and window cleaner out!

Paint It, Stain It, Color It

This is one that’s very affordable and gets missed quite often.  It’s great that you have that freshly painted clean look inside, but treat the door to a nice little sprucing as well.  Paint that once-lovely trim while you’re at it!

Get Gardening!

A lot of stoops and entryways are blocked by shrubbery.  Cut it down and open it up.  On the other side of things, many entryways lack any form of life whatsoever and feel like walking into some kind of lifeless death trap.  Plant a shrub or add some potted plants near the door.  You could also plant some ivy at the base of the walls surrounding the door.

Add Accents

Get a new doorbell and rip out that boring, dirty plastic thing that’s been there since you moved in.  The door bell is probably the first thing any visitor to your home will interact with, so change the button into something that reflects you.  Install something that shows your family’s heritage or artistic flair on the front door.

As any homeowner will tell you, it’s the little things that matter at home.  Getting the details right is important on every level from your kids to your relationships to your home’s value.  Touching up and conducting proper upkeep on the front door is one of those little things that’s obviously (excuse the pun) key, but people tend to overlook it whilst treating the interior like it’s a shrine to Isis.

Upgrade the entryway and who knows?  You might even get a nice wave from the delivery guy every so often.  Hell, he might even be able to find your house!

We invite you to view our product on our web site or at one of the fine distributors that can be located on-line. If you choose to purchase an EVERLITE®, we are certain that you will agree, this is not just a lighted address sign…
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Dan Springer is the Office Manager at EVERLITE Tile & Illuminated House Numbers of Lake Geneva, WI. Follow us on Twitter. They can be found on the web at www.everlite.us,

For additional information contact EVERLITE at:

P.O. Box 878,

Lake Geneva, WI 53147

866-895-9172

Fax 262-248-1722

sales@everlite.us

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