Creating Curb Appeal

This guide helps you create personality and presence for your home. Take a visual tour of architectural styles and design schemes with vitality and impact. 300 full-color photographs and well-researched text explore design elements from lighting, color, and landscaping, to doors, windows, paths, driveways, and accessories. Take cues from the country's foremost residential design professionals that demystify design terminology, expose trade secrets, and offer expert advice, ideas, and solutions. Get information on the professionals and products essential to your successful front-of-the-home transformation. Discover and magnify the design impact of your home's front spaces.

Michelle Valigursky and Lisa Vail have worked as real estate agents, collaborating with investors to find high-potential properties for redesign. They advise homeowners to maximize property value through design consulting and staging services. Photographer Theresa M. Grant specializes in home, garden, and artistic photography. All three women call Atlanta, Georgia, home.