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Curb Appeal: The Weekend Guide to a House You're Proud to Pull Up To
Paperback
Series: The Handy Homeowner, Book 5
General Construction & RenovationOutdoors
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Jessy Spruell
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your house makes a first impression in about eight seconds - to every guest, every neighbor, every buyer, and every single day, to you.
Curb Appeal is the weekend guide to making those seconds count. Inside, Hudson Briggs walks homeowners through the high-return exterior moves that make a house look cared for, intentional, and welcoming: the famous forty-dollar front door, the light fixture rule almost every house gets wrong, the free edge trick landscaping crews do not want you to know, and the exact order to spend in so cheap moves multiply and expensive ones actually pay.
With worked budgets at $500, $2,500, and $10,000, a 90-day seller's sprint, seasonal maintenance rhythms, and step-by-step Saturday playbooks, this is curb appeal as a practical skill - learnable, affordable, and waiting at the curb.
Go take the walk.
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