Got Curb Appeal?

Does your home have curb appeal? Mine certainly didn't.  That is until about a week ago when my mama came up for a visit, and we decided to take on the task of giving my front yard a little personality. Our house is only a couple of years old, so there has been no landscaping done to it. Eventually I do want to do some landscaping, but only when we have the money for it to be done properly. I didn't want to dig up parts of my grass, only to plant a few flowers in the ground. So I started racking my brain as to how to give my house some curb appeal, without the digging and spending tons of money.

It started with a bench. A simple bench. Benches can have things on top of them, under them, and can be moved in the future when landscaping will be done (or will I want to incorporate the bench in my landscaping...hmm...) I sent my mom a text before she left asking if my dad could quickly whip up something for me. Of course I knew he could, I knew it would be perfect, and I knew he would be able to make it very fast. My dad is very talented at building furniture. He built me this in the past:

                        This is the bench he built me using an old door

 
We put some potted flowers on it (taken from the Hodgson farm), an adorable candle holder (bought from the salvation army) and placed a antique childrens chair with a flower on it in front of the bench.

We didn't have a little table and chairs to place by the front door, and found them to be very expensive (even on kijiji and at garage sales...bummer) but it needed something. Its not a very large space, but looked empty with nothing there. So we put a flower planter there, and instantly the house looked more inviting.

              
                  This is what it looked like after we were all done:

What do you think? What are some of your ideas to add curb appeal to your home for cheap?