Add value to your house with a great garden!
Recently posted on the TimesOnline in the property section, Stephen Anderton and Lucy Alexander have stated that having ‘A cracking garden’ can add 2 to 10 percent to the value of a property.
There are a few rules to follow though, City home owners want a small walled garden with nice pots and furniture. Their country cousins like a cottage garden in the English theme, fast paced people with little time to garden like low maintenance lawns and shrubs, while keen gardeners (Like us!) love to have a kitchen garden and herbaceous borders.
From all of that, I think I may be a bit of both. My front garden is going to be a low maintenance water wise garden, while the back yard will have an area of tropical rain forest, a kitchen garden and a formal garden. This may be hard to imagine, but I will post photo’s as it goes.
So lets see, having spent a lot of time and a little money on designing and planting your garden, you could easily make $30,000 extra on a $300,000 house… Not bad going if you enjoy gardening!
Thanks to ladybugbkt for the photo!
Tags: garden, property value
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It seems like it would be difficult to pick the right kind of garden to put in, if you’re really just focused on improving the property value. You might turn an otherwise-likable house into something that fast-paced people don’t want to keep up.
This slate stream is a very beautiful way of adding a water feature to your garden. Forest Garden