An Easy Way to Improve Your Home's Curb Appeal
By ARA-Fusion
Published: Tue, Feb 21, 2006

(ARA) - Drive down any street and chances are good there'll be at least one house that stands out from the rest.  The lawn is always mowed, there's beautiful landscaping, the paint is just perfect and the driveway looks so nice, you wish it were yours.  

If every time you drive past a house like this, you feel guilty about the state your own property is in, it's time to do something about it!  Give it some curb appeal.

How, you ask?  Start by stopping across the street or far enough down the driveway to get a good view of the house and its surroundings, and ask yourself these questions: What is my first impression of the house and yard?  What are the best features of the house or lot, and how can I enhance them?  What are the worst exterior features and how can I minimize them?

If you're like most people, the biggest distracters from curb appeal will include flaking paint on the home's exterior; dirt, mold and mildew on the roof, walls and windows; weeds in the yard and oil stains on what used to be a beautiful concrete driveway.  

Start by tackling the easiest project - which is returning your driveway to its original splendor.  All you have to do to remove those unsightly oil and gasoline stains that have collected over the years is get a bottle of Five Star Technology's Pour-N-Restore Oil Stain Remover,  www.5starshine.com, apply it to the stain, let it dry from a liquid to a powder and sweep it up. No scrubbing. No rinsing. No mess.

Pour-N-Restore Oil Stain Remover is biodegradable, phosphate-free, and has a fresh orange fragrance. Each 16 ounce bottle can cover approximately 3 square feet of driveway.

Next on the list should be the lawn.  If it's overrun with weeds, take a weekend to go through the yard digging up as many as you can and spraying roundup on the others.  As they die off, the grass will take over.

Once you've gotten your feet wet, you'll be ready to move on to the biggest appearance- enhancing project of them all -- repainting the house.  Whether you do it yourself or hire someone to do it, during the preparation process, you'll also get rid of all dirt, mold and mildew on your home's exterior.  It will have been pressure washed away.

After tackling the exterior projects, a good next step is to move into the garage, where once again, a bottle of Five Star Pour-N-Restore Oil Stain Remover www.5starshine.com would come in handy.  Unless you've been parking your car on a mat for years, chances are good there will be oil stains in need of cleaning up.

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