An attractive landscape can improve a family’s life in many ways. Your back yard can act as your own vacation spot to get away from today’s fast paced society. A well designed landscape can be used to entertain your friends, watch the kids play or a romantic evening. Using different materials your landscape can provide different sounds and smells while having a constantly changing picture every time you look out the window. It has been shown in studies that being able to see out doors at a natural landscape it can increase productivity at work and even helps recovering hospital patients. With some creativity and professional advice it can be very easy to create a back yard getaway that is a representation of you and your family.
Having a diverse landscape your adding aesthetic value to your house and at the same time you are helping the environment and the community around you. Plants help air quality conditions because they absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during photosynthesis. Plants and trees also create a place for many forms of wildlife to live. You will be able to watch and enjoy the presence of the different animals and birds in your backyard all year round.
Not only can your landscape create a place to relax it also increase your property value. According to Money magazine a landscape renovation can have 100%-200% recovery value compared to 75%-125% if you were to do a kitchen remodel. Having a beautiful landscape will increase curb appeal and attract more people when trying to sell your home. Using the proper plants can also reduce heating and cooling bills. During summer shade from one deciduous tree can reduce a homes cooling bills by up to 20%! Coniferous tree can be planted to block the cold NW winter winds resulting in lower heating costs.
4 comments:
Great post Andrew, this is the one of the most attractive blogs in the class. The stats you provided are interesting and are pretty convincing arguements to convince someone to pay for landscaping. I look forward to your future posts.
Awesome blog Andrew, everything is well written and consise. It is short and concise yet displays alot of information. There is alot of good points in the first paragraph, that have a good potential to attract future clients to hiring you to construct a landscape. Everything looks great, Cheers
Great posting Andrew! You presented great reasons for creating dynamic and interesting landscapes. You also had some good information regarding the benefits of landscape designs/renovations and how they can increase the value of a property. You provided a lot of great information in your post; my one comment would be to add more pictures. All in all, good job! I enjoyed reading your post.
Good start Andrew,
more pictures, links to other websites or blogs that backup your claims to either human well being or your claim on monetary gain from a great landscape...... anything that you can add or link to that will give you more credibility as a business person. Breaking up the blog with images really makes it much more reader friendly as well.
good to see the poll as well as the YouTube links - just make sure the videos pertain to the information within your blog
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