A Rustic Garden Blog

My wife and I had originally planned on looking for a new house last fall, but we all know what happened to the economy and, by extension, the housing market. We decided to wait for things to rebound a bit before putting our own home back on the market. In the meantime, we were left with plenty of opportunities to make improvements and boost the property value.

While I focused most of my efforts on the back lawn and garden area, my wife took command on the indoor improvements. It struck me that prospective buyers would be making snap judgments about the home, so I wanted to give them a positive first impression. I put up a tasteful wrought iron fence around the garden and commenced the landscaping job I had been planning for years. In the end, we liked the improvements so much that we opted to stick around this house for at least another year.