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Fresh ideas for enhancing a home's appearance

2005-05-12
Curb Appeal: Exciting Ways To Enhance The Appearance Of Your Home provides fascinating before-and-after photos to show how changes in paint, decoration and landscaping can create a new look to a tired home. Fifteen projects are geared to the do-it-yourself homeowner, from fences to outdoor lighting and trim, and provide fresh ideas for enhancing a home's appearance.

Was hoping for more how-to...

2007-10-21
I was left wanting more how-to and less 'here are some pictures'. What I really want is a book that illustrates an idea, and then gives you details about the hardscape, construction, plant species, etc. to execute that landscape project. This book is about 80% pictures and ideas, 20% improvement how-tos that don't really seem to have anything to do with the first 4/5s of the book and look like they were cut out of sections of three other books and pasted into this one. For a relatively inexpensive book that might give you some ideas, it is okay, but if you get ideas from this book, you are on your own to figure out how to actually execute them.

Great book for modest-sized homes with great before/after photos

2007-09-23
This books uses before and after photos to show what improvements were made and why they were made. The homes appear to be moderate-sized homes mostly built 1920-1940. It shows how to add character. It will give you ideas that you can try a project here and another later, if your budget doesn't allow a full-scale project now. Many styles of homes are featured in the book. I found this book better than Megan Connelly's book: Design Ideas for Curb Appeal by Creative Homeowner, in which the homes featured don't show before and after photos. Instead most of the houses Ms. Connelly featured had to be 6,000 sq feet or larger. Many were newly-built obviously by people who had a lot of money. The sunset book, on the other hand, illustrates ideas on a less expensive scale. I watch all of the HGTV design shows, including Curb Appeal. But prior to this Sunset book, I wasn't sure where to start. I now have the confidence to take on Curb Appeal because "I get it".

don't waste your money

2006-03-30
Nothing new here and the pictures are not really that good.

Curb Appeal

2005-11-15
I was so excited when I flipped through this book that I bought 4 for gifts. Generally I only browse through magazines, where I can clip great ideas and toss the rest. Most books on this topic have a few good ideas and the rest is noninspirational.

Page after page. I was inspired and excited. I almost wanted to go buy a fixer-upper so I could utilize some of the fantastic ideas. This book is a keeper for sure.

Loved Curb Appeal!

2005-09-07
Great ideas for all styles of homes. Gets your immagination working to view your own home with a new sense of creativity, whether inspired to use the complete redo or a partial version thereof. Depicts realistic "before" photos, as well as the "after" photos.