The beautiful front yard of HGTV Smart Home 2022 in Wilmington, North Carolina offers a preview of this sophisticated and timeless waterside retreat.
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Tons of Curb Appeal
Illuminated at night, this sophisticated and timeless waterside retreat with white board and batten siding, black trim, and cedar wood accents offers tons of curb appeal.
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Coordinated Look
The home’s handsome garage takes design cues from the main house, and functions as a workout space, potting shed, heated and cooled package drop room, and spot for storing your vehicle from the elements.
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Sporty Luxury
The exciting HGTV Smart Home 2022 prize package includes a 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 with innovative features that enhance the driver’s and passengers’ enjoyment.
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Friendly Front Porch
Oversized pavers lead from the garage to the home’s friendly front porch, with a front door that welcomes guests and opens to a foyer and fashionable office space inside.
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Rustic Warmth
Rustic cedar wood accents offer warm contrast for the home’s classic black and white exterior, and reflects the woodland landscape that surrounds this spectacular Wilmington, North Carolina property.
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Indoor and Outdoor Living
The lounge-worthy front porch is part of this home’s celebration of indoor/outdoor living. The porch wraps around the side of the home, to utilize all the outdoor space and views of the north Cape Fear River.
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Deter Intruders
A yard sign in front of the house confirms this property is protected 24/7 by a total home care security system with modern technology. This allows you to sit back, and enjoy all the beauty of this impressive property.
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Natural Beauty
Black containers with hardy and handsome greenery beautify and help define the front porch. Landscape designer Carmen Johnston used the same type of containers all around the house, to create visual rhythm and a unified look.
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Prime Spot
Swings on the front porch make this outdoor space more functional, and offer a relaxing way to take in the neighborhood. Enjoy a cup of morning coffee, check emails, or stream your favorite HGTV shows on discovery+ from this prime spot.
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Easy-Care Plantings
A combination of native flowering plants, hardy shrubs and fresh sod add natural beauty and texture to the front yard. Added mulch reduces soil water losses, and helps suppress weeds.
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Seamless Look
Incorporating wood details into the front and side porch helps the home seamlessly blend into the surrounding area, in this historic eastern surf town full of scenic beauty.
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Welcome Inside
Additional black containers with greenery help define the black front door with glass panes. “I love to use evergreens because it’s budget-friendly, so it can go through both hot and cold seasons,” says landscape designer Carmen Johnston, who choose Autumn Ferns, Cast Irons, and Fatsia for this project. “These plants are great, and they grow in so many zones, so you really can’t go wrong. What can be smarter than that?”
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Safe and Secure
A front door smart lock helps keep this home safe and secure around the clock, and provides more flexibility than a standard lock.
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Step Inside
The welcoming front door with side lights opens to the foyer inside, that introduces visitors to the home’s livable coastal vibe, and automated features you can control from your favorite smart device.
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On the Lookout
Whether it’s dark or light out, a video doorbell captures video of anyone standing at the front doors. The camera’s expansive view allows you to zoom in and pan out, so you can watch over it all.
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Lively Style Sconces
Crafted from study steel, ten large outdoor beveled light sconces illuminate the front porch and exterior of the home. The sconces feature lantern figure frames, with attractive beveled glass panes.
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Durable and Eco-Friendly
The front porch includes a high-performance, eco-friendly composite board made with 95 percent recycled materials, for superior durability and aesthetics.
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Low-Maintenance Beauty
This weather-resistant material withstands fading and staining over time, to give you a beautiful, low-maintenance surface for enjoying long and leisurely days out on the porch.
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Sit and Relax
The front porch includes two inviting porch swings built by local Wilmington surfer Cody Frennea, who crafts functional art from the finest woods he can find. One swing sits by the home’s front entry, while the other enjoys a cozy spot where the porch wraps around the side of the house.
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Grow Your Own
A Mocktail Garden off the Outdoor Kitchen with lavender, thyme, and rosemary gives you easy access to fresh ingredients for your favorite mocktails, that you can enjoy by the home’s enticing pool. Drip irrigation used throughout keeps the yard in tip-top shape.
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Warmth of Wood
Rustic cedar wood accents added to the upper windows of this waterside retreat bring more natural beauty and warmth, and coordinate with the wood-look details on the front porch and garage doors.
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Bold and Sleek Profile
HGTV Smart Home 2022’s bold and sleek 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 offers sporty rear-wheel drive, turbo power, and advanced safety in a stylish and elegantly athletic package.
This luxury SUV includes a spacious, sensuous cabin, with a center console with intuitive controls and advanced technologies.
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Hit the Road
Pack a weekend tote and explore the local Wilmington, North Carolina area in this standout SUV with sleek front and rear styling with all-LED lighting.
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Spacious Driveway
The spacious concrete driveway to the garage offers parking space for two cars, and creates a focal point for the front of the property
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Amped-Up Package Room
This door opens to an amped-up heated and cooled package drop room with retro style refrigerator. This handy space is great for receiving packages, neighborly treats, or leaving items for someone to securely pick up. A separate keypad for entry means any person accessing the room cannot enter your main living space, or the remainder of the garage.
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Durable Doors
This contemporary waterside retreat has insulated garage doors with a wood-look composite overlay, to offer the beautiful look of warm wood over the strength and durability of steel. Glass inserts bring natural light inside the garage.
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Nice Touch
Strips of painted sod in the driveway add nice visual interest, and another design detail that brings this sophisticated and timeless waterside retreat to the next level.
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Decorative Accent
A black-painted trellis over the garage doors adds an attractive decorative accent to the structure. The black trellis also creates a unified look with the black trim and front door seen on the main house
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Natural Beauty
Surrounding tall trees that frame this property provide shade and add natural beauty. Take a walk in the woods, or visit one of the local beaches in Wilmington, named one of the top 20 surf towns in the world.
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Welcome Home
The large driveway with added strips of landscaped greenery, provides a welcome entry to HGTV Smart Home 2022.
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Set the Scene
The advanced smart lighting system allows you to set scenes, and create a welcoming environment that promotes safety and enhances the stunning architecture of this home, with layers of beautiful furnishings and accessories.
