5 Ways To Increase Your Property’s Kerb Appeal This Year

Create an elegant entranceway: stone porticos and door surrounds

If there’s one thing that will add immediate style, sophistication and elegance to your property, it’s a cast stone portico. Inspired by Georgian architecture, today’s porticos not only shelter your entranceway from the elements, they without doubt increase the kerb appeal of any property.

What’s more, adding a portico can help to increase your property’s value right away. The UK’s top website for self-builders and home extenders, Homebuilding & Renovating, includes installing a porch in their top 20 tips for adding value to the exterior of your home.

Porticos may look grand, but designing and installing a cast stone portico is relatively straightforward. Haddonstone’s standard portico designs, available in five options, suit most property types.  We also offer a bespoke design service enabling you to custom-design a portico to suit your property.  Choose from curved, straight or octagonal portico designs in almost any dimension.

If a portico isn’t quite right for your property, a cast stone door surround could be an elegant alternative. Suitable for both interior and exterior use, door surrounds incorporate a number of smart architectural components to work with your individual property requirements.

Elevate your walls: beautiful stone wall dressings

Installing stone dressings is an easy and affordable way to add instant style and kerb appeal to your boundary walls, entrance ways and gate piers.

Crowning gate piers, pillars and posts with cast stone pier caps immediately completes their look. Designed to offer protection to brick or stone walls, pier caps also add a decorative finish. Available in a range of standard designs, pier caps can even be custom-designed to suit your individual taste and requirements. What’s more, most cast stone pier caps can be incorporated with copings and finials, so you can achieve a truly personal design.

Speaking of which, when it comes to finials, the choice is (almost endless!) Cast stone ball finials are smart and sophisticated. They work with almost any style and age of property.  If you’re looking for something a little more individual though, a decorative finial is a good choice. From baskets of fruit to lions, and from pineapples to urns, adding personality to your walls can very easily be achievable.

Finally, decorative and plain cast stone copings are a great choice for protecting the lengths of outside walls. Not only practical, copings also help to harmonise and bring together your landscaping design.

Transform your outside space: practical and attractive stone landscaping

Whether it’s a dramatic stairway, an elegant balcony or a way to delineate a courtyard or patio, balustrading is immediately eye-catching and grandiose. As well as adding high levels of practicality, balustrading adds decorative flair to both interiors and landscapes. It’s also very easy to create a bespoke look with complementary landscaping components such as finials and planters. For a more informal look, try parapet screening.

An impactful way to elevate your landscaping project is to combine balustrading with paving and steps. Using complementary landscaping components in the same style and colour helps to achieve proportion, harmony and symmetry. Flooring is sometimes forgotten when it comes to renovating your outside space, but installing beautiful, high-quality smooth, riven or textured paving can make all the difference.

Finally, whether it’s a grand outdoor stairway, or a few simple steps leading to your front door, our traditional, integrated and radial cast stone steps are available in over 80 styles.

Create the right view: stylish stone window dressings

Stylish stone window dressings will transform the exterior of your property’s façade and elevate its kerb appeal. The good news is that window surrounds and sills can be retrofitted as part of a renovation or restoration project. Using our TecLite material, our team manufactures window dressings that are lighter and thinner than other stone alternatives.  This means creating an elegant, crisp and clean outline to your property’s windows is easily achievable..

For self-builders, the range of window dressings is even more extensive. Window heads and hood moulds can be integrated at the build stage. As well as offering protection to your windows, for example by throwing off rainwater, they help to create a strong aesthetic too.

And to inject a little more individuality to your property, why not consider adding gable vents, key stones or a bulls-eye window surround?

The perfect finishing touch: tasteful stone home and garden features

For the perfect finishing touch, a great way to complement your façade stonework is to add some tasteful home and garden designs.  Placing a pair of beautifully-designed garden planters, troughs or urns outside your entranceway will add real interest.

At this grand country manor house, the owner has chosen two of Haddonstone’s made to order Elizabethan Jardinières in smart Portland colour.  These impressive planters provide lots of planting space for tasteful topiary.

Garden statuary doesn’t need to be old-fashioned or fussy.  Add personality to your entranceway with a pair of cast stone dogs (as shown) or opt for another of your favourite creatures.  Elephants, lions and eagles are popular choices.

Let’s add more kerb appeal to your property

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