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Whether you're looking at selling your home or just want to make it a little more appealing, one easy option to consider is creating a welcome wreath to keep on your front door. This creates a pleasant focal point for your home's entrance, and takes a minimum of investment to make it work. Here's a quick look at how to put one together and keep it current for the seasons.
To start, you'll want to consider the colors you have around your home - not just the trim and siding, but also the landscaping and other environmental factors throughout the year. Though you can find some basic decorative items that will match the current season, consider some items that will match other seasons, such as adding holiday touches around special times of the year, acorns and fall leaves for the autumn, clear pastel tones for spring and bright flowers for summer. Have a love for fishing? Fiber arts? Your home team? Whatever your passion, incorporate it into your wreath as well.
Take a look at your wreath and get a feel for how you want it to hang. If it has one area that is specifically heavier than the others, you may want to orient this section towards the bottom, so that it doesn't cause your wreath to drift out of alignment. Take your yardage goods, whether it's ribbon, decorative cord or other material, and wrap it around the wreath several times. For narrower material, you can wrap it more times, while for wider materials, you may want to limit the number of wraps to four or five, so that about two-thirds of the wreath's base material is showing. Tie an attractive bow or tuck the ends into the backside of the wreath. Next, you'll lay out your picks to determine how they'll be placed in the wreath. Once you've determined your layout, you'll push the wire end of the picks into the wreath, trimming off any protruding ends using a wire cutter.
When you're done putting your wreath together, simply hang the wreath hanger at the top of your front door, then hang the wreath on the hanger. As the seasons change, take a few minutes to update the picks and yardage goods that you used on your wreath to match. This allows you to keep your wreath current without a lot of extra pieces kept in storage. If you're improving your home's curb appeal to list your home or if you're looking for a new home, we can help! Please feel free to contact us today to get started.
I'm John Mahan, Sales Associate with William Raveis Real Estate, Harwich Port Office.
Throughout his childhood, John Mahan spent summers on Cape Cod at his parents’ home in Dennis Port. His intro to the Cape was, as he puts it, when his parents “carried me down the stairs at Sea Street Beach when I was a week old.” With a lifelong connection to Cape Cod, it seemed only natural for John and his wife, Mary, to move to Harwich – where they still reside – with their two young children in 1996.
Prior to moving to Cape Cod, John lived in the Worcester-Auburn area where he worked for Mass Electric for 10 years and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Utility Workers. When John and his family moved to the Cape, he worked at NSTAR for six years.
John began his career in real estate in 2002 when he joined Team Waystack Realty in Harwich Port. He has been a consistent top producing realtor in the Harwich area for the past 20 years. John’s approachable demeanor, combined with an integral understanding of the Cape Cod residential real estate market, have allowed him to build trusting, long-term relationships with his clients – both sellers and buyers.
