It’s perfectly normal to want to make your home look as nice and attractive as possible. We put a lot of effort into our homes’ interiors to incorporate our unique tastes and styles, but some people neglect what’s outside their front door.
Whether you’re looking for a new project or just want to update your home, Mobile Home Outfitters has seven ideas for sprucing up your mobile home exterior to enhance every element of your home’s curb appeal.
1. Perform a Thorough Cleaning
Before you consider making any significant changes to your home’s outward appearance, it’s always a good idea to give the exterior of your home a complete cleaning. Throughout the year, it’s normal for dirt, dust, grime, and other residue to build up on the exterior of your home.
During a nice afternoon, getting out the power washer and cleaning your home properly helps prepare it for any projects on your to-do list. Whether you’re removing dirt, emptying the gutters, or wiping down the windows, a deep clean is an ideal first step in improving your home’s exterior.
2. Upgrade the Skirting
Skirting is one of the most fundamental aspects of your mobile home. This protective piece shields the underside of your house from various weather conditions, wild animals, and other hazards. Skirting also provides ventilation and is a valuable addition to your home’s exterior.
Skirting comes in many different colors, styles, and materials that allow each homeowner to find the right kit for their home. Many wooden skirting kits come in various wood shades or have unique carvings that offer a more visually appealing home exterior. Many kits give homeowners the opportunity to paint or stain the skirting to bring a sense of personalized flair.
3. Refresh With New Paint
One of the best ideas for sprucing up your mobile home exterior is to get creative with colors. Many mobile or manufactured homes come in neutral colors, like white, gray, or beige, that go well with most aesthetics but don’t particularly pop.
When you have a stronger idea of how you want your home to look on the outside, you may find it worthwhile to explore a variety of color opportunities and give your home a fresh coat. One of the advantages of trying out new colors is that if you decide your new paint isn’t working out, you can cover it with a different shade.
4. Consider Exterior Additions
Depending on the amount of space available around your mobile home, you may want to consider creating some exterior expansions. If your mobile home has stairs leading up to the front door, we suggest creating a nice porch. A front porch gives you a place to sit and relax outside, adds to the overall curb appeal of your home, and can provide additional storage beneath it, depending on its construction.
While front porches tend to be on the smaller side, maybe allowing for a few chairs, the backyard typically offers more possibilities, such as the option to add a large deck. While decks don't provide as much curb appeal since they’re usually found at the back of the house, a deck can still improve your home’s value and offer a touch of decorative class. Decks are wonderful places to host backyard get-togethers or just relax in the evening hours.
Decks and porches are typically constructed with wood or fiberglass, depending on the aesthetic of your home’s exterior. There are many options when it comes to mobile home fiberglass steps that provide style and function, leading up to one or both of these additions to your home.
5. Plant a Garden
Adding a bit of agriculture to your home’s exterior is one of the best ways to spruce up your yard. You may consider planting trees that bear fruit or offer colorful leaves. A bed of flowers provides unique and distinct colors that could attract butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. Some homeowners might even discover they are passionate about growing their own vegetables as they explore various gardening opportunities.
Diverse and unique plants add a lot of visual appeal to a home’s exterior and provide homeowners with a long-lasting outdoor project they can nurture throughout their time there.
6. Incorporate Proper Landscaping
While a garden provides a homeowner with an opportunity to add more colorful and vibrant plant life to their home’s exterior, proper landscaping helps keep things looking clean, organized, and appealing. There’s more to landscaping than keeping the grass cut short; homeowners may also want to regularly water their grass or provide nutritional additives to make it appear livelier.
Enhancing your yard through landscaping might involve placing down garden stones to create a walking path or adding light fixtures to the yard to create a more enticing nighttime ambience. Maintaining everything that goes into your lawn, from the grass to the walkways, is an essential part of creating an attractive and welcoming home exterior.
7. Install Exterior Window Treatments
If your home has front-facing windows, it may be worth investing in a way to make them appear more interesting to those passing by. Many homeowners have blinds or curtains on the inside, but those elements don’t always offer the most exciting view.
There are many wonderful exterior window treatment options to spruce up the outside of your home. Some homeowners choose to invest in wooden shutters, while others opt for a small, colorful awning or flowerbox to add a little more visual appeal to the homestead.
Different window treatments work together with the aesthetics and colors of your home, so it’s important to spend the time finding materials and colors that match the vibe of your home.
Before making any large changes to your home’s exterior, it’s essential to remember that many mobile home neighborhoods and areas have community rules and guidelines to which you may need to adhere. Talking with a supervisor in your area and finding out which additions are or are not acceptable in your neighborhood could affect any potential plans you have for modifications.
When looking for parts and materials for improving your mobile home, reach out to Mobile Home Outfitters. We have a large selection of interior and exterior options for your home, with several helpful and professional guides for making the most out of your living space. Contact us today for more information.
