Buying a new house means the chance to decorate the inside of the house in just about whatever manner you choose. You can decorate a room completely in Baroque art if you want. Your kitchen can be rooster-themed, cat-themed, or have no theme at all. Whereas apartment complexes have very specific rules about when and how you can hang things on the walls, those rules really don’t exist when you own the home yourself. You have as much freedom as you want, as long as you don’t do anything too crazy like hang meat at room temperature in your dining room.
While you’re busy focusing on your house’s interior, it’s easy to forget that you also own a patch of land outside your house. It could be a tiny fenced area or acres of untamed countryside. There’s also your house’s exterior, which you want to keep looking clean and tidy as well. You can do that by adding vinyl or composite siding, for instance. You can put up Christmas lights in December and leave them up year-round, assuming there’s no Homeowners Association around to tell you otherwise (HOAs have a bit of reputation for things like that, unfortunately).
Adding a garden
One of the nicest things about adding a garden to your property is that you don’t need a ton of land to do it. You can have a small garden with just a few rows in your front yard, If you have a lot of land, you can certainly bring in a backhoe and start prepping it for planting, but your garden can be as big or as small as you want it to be.
A garden is a great way to add a bit of charm to your property, and it can also be a really nice way to have fresh fruits or vegetables at certain times of the year. Before you start buying seeds, look into what kinds of produce do well in your particular part of the country. It may help to go online and pull up a map of the various growing zones that exist in the continental United States. Parts of Florida will have a growing season that lasts almost all year for certain plants, but cold, snowy locales like North Dakota only have a growing season of two or three months for the same plant. So you’ll probably have more time and more options in a place like California, but it doesn’t mean people with green thumbs who happen to live in Idaho shouldn’t even bother. You should absolutely bother, as long as you stay realistic about things like climate and soil where you live. A plant has to be hardy enough to survive in your area; if it’s not, you’re just creating more work for yourself, and you still might not succeed.
There are also things like lawn ornaments that can be used inside or outside a garden. Such decorations are especially popular from October through December, as that encompasses the period from Halloween through Christmas. Have some fun with it, but try not to scare the neighborhood children too much. That’s unless you’re running a haunted house operation in which case you’ll have very different goals than most homeowners.
