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48 Before-and-After Curb Appeal Makeovers

By: H. Camille Smith and Lauren Fansler

See how HGTV's all-star designers, architects, landscapers and contractors turn neighborhood eyesores into real showstoppers.

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Front Yard of HGTV Urban Oasis 2017 in Knoxville TN

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Photo: Robert Peterson; Rustic White Photography. From: Brian Patrick Flynn.

Creating Charming Curb Appeal

Check out these home exterior renovations that will inspire you to create charming, love at first sight curb appeal at your own home. We have included some incredible transformations and tips for improving your landscaping or home's facade to boost your curb appeal.

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Photo: Jesse Loftis. From: Jean Stoffer.

Before: Dark and Drab

Though certainly charming, this cottage's monotone brown shade isn't eye-catching and is doing nothing to highlight the home's architectural good bones.

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Photo: JEAN STOFFER. From: Jean Stoffer.

After: A Vision in White

Designer Jean Stoffer polished the diamond-in-the-rough by adding on additional living space upstairs and giving the home's brick exterior a bright white coat of paint contrasted with charcoal gray trim. Low, foundation plantings and a pair of boxwoods in zinc planters softly tie the home into the natural surroundings.