4 Easy Ways to Help Your Home Stand Out From Your Neighbou’s?

Your House isn’t just the place you live, it’s your home, and it should reflect your personality and individual style not simply be another identical building in a busy street. Thankfully, there are many simple, easy and cost-effective ways to make your house unique from others on your street. From your garden and driveway, to the house itself this blog will cover just some of the ways that we think make the biggest difference.

Adding a Front Door Canopy

A front door canopy can make all the difference in turning a bland, flat, monotonous house into a stylish, independent home. There are lots of different types and looks of canopies to choose from which include apex, mono pitch, apex low pitch and mono low pitch. You can get all these designs from Apex Canopies.

At Apex Canopies we make door canopies of all shapes, colours and sizes out of prime and recycled plastic polymers. This means it is lightweight and easy to install without the need of scaffolding or lifting equipment. These plastic polymers are more weather resistant than other materials such as wood and glass as they need less maintenance and won’t crack or rot. This allows your canopy to stay new-looking and helps your house to keep its independent look as well as increasing your houses’ value!

Add a decking overlooking your garden

Adding a decking to your house not only makes your exterior better looking and more independent than your neighbour’s but also gives you an amazing place to sit outside in the summer socialising with friends and family.

Adding a decking to your house may sound time consuming and expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Ram Extrusion offer high quality decking made from the same prime and recycled plastic polymers as Apex Canopies. It might be more expensive than wood or other traditional materials initially, but in the long run it will end up far cheaper as it is more weather resistant than wood as it needs far less maintenance and won’t crack or rot. I’m sure everyone has seen rotten wooden decking that ruins the look of a house.

With Ram Extrusions high quality decking you can be sure that your decking will last, while looking just as good as traditional wooden decking’s without any extra maintenance. prime and recycled plastic polymer decking is also easy to install and should be relatively easy for a competent DIY’er to install themselves, saving on the costs of an external laborer.

Plant a Hedge

Although a hedge can take a while to grow, it will eventually separate your house from your neighbors but can also add a lot of other benefits to the front, or back, of your house. The first benefit is it creates a natural barrier between your garden and public spaces and your neighbors, allowing you to feel more comfortable when you, or your kids are in it.

The second benefit is blocking noise pollution and strong winds. A hedge can greatly reduce road and wind noise if your house is on a busy street or open space, which will allow you to relax more when in and out of your home. The final reason is that it’s good for the planet! Hedges help smaller animals move around different habitats and hide from predators, making them vital to the survival of some species.

Small Personalised Decorations

By far the easiest way to make your house stand out is to add small exterior decorations that reflect your personality and style. This can be anything from potted seasonal plants, custom house numbers or added exterior lighting. These can all create a welcoming and cozy environment that greets people when walking towards your front door.

If you combine these personalised decorations with symmetry such as matching plant boxes either side of the path to your door or lights positioned evenly around your home, it will create an extremely appealing atmosphere that everyone, including you and your visitors will experience every time they enter your house.

So, how do you easily help your home stand out from your neighbour’s?

In conclusion, there are many easy ways to help your house stand out from your neighbours. personalised decorations can be the easiest and quickest way to differentiate and cosify your exterior but might be less obvious from a distance. This is where the front door canopy and decking come in which will give your house a complete makeover and will ensure your house is being admired and talked about by your whole street.

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