PREPARE YOUR YARD AND HOME EXTERIOR FOR CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
What’s your Christmas yard decorating style? Do you light up the block with a bedazzling display that attracts lines of cars and gets tons of likes on Instagram? Or is a beautiful wreath and a strand of white twinkle lights more your vibe?
However you like to decorate your exterior spaces for Christmas, make sure your house and yard look their best before you put up those lights and decorations. A clean exterior and yard will not only look great—and make your decorations stand out—but will also help make your displays safer. Space Makers Junk Removal offers these tips for cleaning up 7 key areas before you drag out your decorations.
DECLUTTER AND CLEAN UP THE YARD
Remove objects and clutter that will detract from your Christmas displays, such as toys, lawn furniture, summer décor, and garden tools. Give your yard one last pass with the lawn mower so you don’t have to set wooden or blow-up decorations in straggly patches of grass. Rake up leaves or mulch them, and yank dead plants out of flower beds.
TRIM BUSHES AND TREES
If you plan to deck out bushes, hedges, and trees with lights, first give them a trim. Be sure to remove any dead, diseased, or brittle branches that could fall on you or onlookers, or that might not be stable enough to hold heavy lights. Trimming up your bushes will also open them up so your lights won’t get tangled—and possibly damaged—in them.
CLEAN OUT YOUR GUTTERS
If you’re planning to string lights along your gutters, remove debris and clean the gutters first. The added weight of the lights can cause gutters full of leaves to come loose, posing a safety hazard to anyone walking under them. And attaching lights to metal gutters will be easier if the gutters aren’t slick with dirt or mildew. You may groan at the thought of climbing a ladder to scoop leaves out of your gutters, but did you know you don’t have to use a ladder? Check out these ideas from Bob Vila on how to clean gutters while standing firmly on the ground.
WASH YOUR WINDOWS
Those lights you plan to string around your front windows will look better if your windows are clean and streak-free. Find a warm, sunny day and take down all screens; then give your windows a wash to remove dirt and debris clinging to them. Don’t know how to wash windows? Follow these tips from The Family Handyman. If your window screens are torn or coming out of their frames, The Family Handyman also provides tips on how to replace the screens.
WASH THE FRONT PORCH
Make sure your porch decorations will stand out by decluttering and cleaning your porch. Put away any pots, furniture, yard art, or other items that will pull attention away from your decorations or make your porch unsafe for holiday guests as they arrive for parties. Then give the porch a thorough wash. Lela Burris of the blog organized-ish offers great tips for how to clean a front porch without using a power sprayer.
CLEAN THE FRONT DOOR
Make sure your holiday wreath is the star of the show—and not those muddy pawprints your cat left on the door. If your front door needs a wash (and maybe a fresh coat of paint), find a pretty day to get that done before you string lights around it or place your wreath. Better Homes and Gardens offers 6 tips for cleaning a front door to make it pop—for the holidays or any time of year.
CLEAN THE GARAGE DOOR
Plan to project snowflakes, penguins, dancing lights, or other patterns on your garage door? They’ll look much better if your door is clean. How to clean your garage door depends on the type of material it’s made of. Follow these tips from Homelight.com for cleaning a garage door so it not only looks great for Christmas but all year round.
CALL SPACE MAKERS TO HAUL OFF THE BIG STUFF
You want people to notice your Santa and reindeer display, not that old basketball goal with the torn net, right? But it’s not that easy to get rid of something that big and bulky by yourself. Space Makers Junk Removal offers full-service junk removal in San Antonio and surrounding areas, and we have the crew and the trucks to haul off any large items that might wreck your perfect Christmas yard display. We can remove junk like basketball goals, broken trampolines, worn-out lawn furniture, broken lawn equipment, and pots and planters. If you have old appliances in your yard or on your porch, we can haul those off for you, too. Whatever might get in the way of your holiday decorating, we can take it away for you.
CALL OR TEXT SPACE MAKERS TODAY to move the big stuff so you can concentrate on making your Christmas yard display the most welcoming and festive in San Antonio and surrounding areas!