What Outdoor Living Space Projects Add Resale Value?

Nothing compliments your home more than surrounding it with a beautifully hardscaped yard. Hardscaping is the technique of combining decorative hard materials such as brick, concrete, and stone with softscaped components like shrubbery, grass, and other organic materials to creatively transform your home’s landscape. This includes incorporating features such as walkways, patios, walls, garden elements, pergolas, gazebos, water elements, fire pits, and more.

Why Hardscaping And Landscaping Is A Smart Investment For Homeowners

Hardscaping does more than just beautify your home and add eye-catching curb appeal. It invokes a sense of pride and satisfaction, adds functionality, increases enjoyment and usage of the space, provides new areas to socialize and entertain, and even helps with environmental issues such as drainage and pest control. And best of all, hardscaping adds significant resale value to your home. Even a modest budget can bring as much as a 20% return on investment. In short, it’s a total win-win with endless innovative options and terrific versatility. If you don’t already have some hardscaped elements around your home, there’s no time like the present to dig in! Here are six of the very best:

1) Fire Pit: We’re listing this element first for a reason. Pardon the obvious pun, but fire pits are smokin’ hot right now. They’ve become one of the most highly desired features today, and it is easy to understand why. Many of us seek ways to spend more time outdoors, and we naturally want to do that close to home. A backyard fire pit is attractive, functional, and a cozy, comfortable place to gather socially. Having quality family time around a crackling fire is simply something everybody enjoys. Why should you wait for camping trips when you can have that experience whenever you want, just by taking a few steps out your back door? Plus, consider this—experts say that fire pits provide a truly exceptional ROI, one of the best of hardscaping elements, up to an amazing 67%.

2) Walkways and Pathways: Homes can benefit from the addition of walkways and pathways. Not only are they functional as they make traversing your property easier, but they also help to shape, define, and unify the different elements of your landscape by artistically connecting the various areas surrounding your home. Material options are numerous, including gravel, brick, stone, tile, concrete, and wood.

3) Outdoor Living Area: This could be something as simple as a patio, as extravagant as a fully functional outdoor kitchen, or an elegant, casual seating/lounging area where your family and friends can relax, unwind, and socialize. Patios are an immensely popular feature that are always “in.” They are also timeless in the way that they consistently remain one of the most utilized features, as they extend your family’s everyday living area beyond the walls of your home.

4) Retaining Wall Or Terrace: Retaining walls, terraces, and other wall elements are a fantastic way to add resale value. They increase your landscape’s structural integrity, particularly in areas where it may be uneven or sloped. It can help protect your foundation, stop erosion, improve water drainage, and provide more functional, usable areas, such as a garden. (A garden terrace is another hot, trendy feature right now.)

5) Water Features: There is something soothing about having a water element on your property. Of course, there’s no ignoring the classic appeal of having a pool, but there are also many other water element options to consider. A fountain, a pond, a birdbath; no matter what you ultimately choose, water attracts the ear and the eye. It draws us in and creates a stunning visual focal point that elevates the surroundings. Plus, it has a calming, almost mesmerizing effect on our senses that we are not immune to. You just cannot go wrong with adding water.

6) Pergola: Pergolas are a stylish way to add an architectural element that provides beauty and a vital need in sunny landscapes: shade. Positioning a pergola over a patio, walkway, grill area, or other locations in the yard where you’d like a little shade is a perfect solution. It also serves as a superior support for vegetative softscaping such as a grapevine, ivy, roses, etc. You can expect a ROI of about 50%.

King Kutz Landscaping Makes All The Difference

When you’re ready to add some hardscaping features to your home, you can trust the friendly, experienced, five-star professionals at King Kutz Landscaping to help bring your vision to life. No matter what your budget or project, we do it all. From initial design to installation to ongoing maintenance or repair, we can provide you with expert assistance every step of the way. Give us a call today.