While studies show that you will only recoup 80 to 90 cents on every dollar you spend to upgrade your kitchen or bath, professional landscape designers estimate that improvements to your lawn and garden can boost your home’s value by 7 percent to 15 percent. Those findings have been confirmed by survey results [from the Gallup Organization and the National Gardening Association (NGA)] this year, despite the economic down shift toward the real estate market. Lawn and garden equity is all the rage these days as homeowners continue to invest heavily in their property values. The NGA says U.S. homeowners ...<< MORE >>

Real estate is a business where curb appeal is everything.  The most important part of a home can often be the exterior where first impressions can set the entire mood for the rest of the home.  Let's just face it, no one wants to buy an ugly house.  A good looking house on the outside can emotionally appeal to home buyers and sometimes be the difference maker in selling a home or having it sit on the market for months and months.  Window boxes are an affordable way to take a home's exterior to a whole new level.  No rot PVC ...<< MORE >>

Planters are a great way to add curb appeal to businesses and homes.  Planters can be made from almost any material and cast planters have traditionally been the most popular.  Cast iron and cement planters are very typical and offer a beautiful look to complement a front entrance to a home or building.  Cedar planters are very popular in front of commercial entrances, especially restaurants.  Vinyl planters have popped up as a nice affordable alternative to wood that will not rot and PVC planters have come on strong, emerging as an upgrade over vinyl capturing the look of wood ...<< MORE >>

Congratulations to Flower Window Boxes for being featured on The Today Show.  A full version of the article can be seen from MSNBC's website.  Flower Window Boxes was part of a home improvement upgrade segment starring Lou Manfredini and the product was selected as a way to add curb appeal to your home and "transform it into an oasis."  Their PVC window boxes were featured at the top of the segment as a great alternative to wooden window boxes which need to be replaced every five years.

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Window boxes seem to be popping up all over the place lately.  Over the last decade window boxes have become increasingly popular with online searches doubling from 2004 to 2005 and doubling again in 2006.  Window boxes used to be a seasonal item that was only searched for online in the months of april and may.  In 2007, searches were up 8-fold over 2004 for window boxes and reached high volumes from february all the way to october.  This increasing trend for window boxes is due to a variety of factors.  Low maintenance materials such as vinyl, PVC, and fiberglass ...<< MORE >>

With the housing market in a small recession, home buyers are in a great power position to get the home of their dreams at a spectacular price.  This is especially true in Atlanta where a very large surplus of homes has left the market flooded and plenty of choices for buyers to choose from.  Builders are dropping prices and offering incentives and upgrades to the exterior to add more curb appeal for buyers.  This has included architectural elements such as window boxes, cedar brackets and gables, garage door hardware, functional shutters, and more.

With excellent housing growth in 2006, Forsyth county was ...<< MORE >>

Building a window box is an easy DIY project that is great for any beginner.  The best choice of wood for a window box is cedar or cypruss, because both woods will naturally resist rotting the best.  This will give your window box the best chance of lasting more than five years.  The process of building a window box begins with measuring the window for window box length, followed by assembly, followed lastly by hanging it.  Let's skip straight to the middle and focus in on the actual building of a window box and the steps that are required. 

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Craftsman style architecture was a huge hit in the early 1900s.  The beautiful architectural style with unique craftsman trims and decorative exterior accents were a display of craftsman beauty, architectural dilligence, and pure woodworking expertise.  The craftsman style faded, however, because as beautiful as these architectural accents were, they became maintenance nightmares on the exterior due mainly to rotting.  Beautifully crafted architectural details were needing to be removed or redone in order to maintain the architectural integrity.  Craftsman style homes eventually faded out and track homes took the limelight. 

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How to repair a wooden window box. Ok, so you bought a wooden window box and it was absolutely gorgeous when you first installed it.  You remember it like it was yesterday, but now it's starting to show signs of rot and decay and problems are starting to loom.  The real problem is that it really does seem like just yesterday that you put it up.  That's because the average wooden window box only lasts 3 years.  In many cases signs of rot begin to show in as little as months.<< MORE >>

Flower Window Boxes is collecting pictures of window boxes for our spring gallery.  All of our customers are eligible to send in their window box pictures and one picture will be chosen for our front page header.  If you have purchased a window box from Flower Window Boxes and you would like to send in a photo, please email your pictures to sales@flowerwindowboxes.com.  All pictures will go in our spring gallery online and will be displayed on our website.  Additionally, you can call Matt at 770-845-5570 if you have any questions about our spring window box gallery collection. ...<< MORE >>