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A simple splash of color can transform your home's exterior and reboot your front yard, so rev up your imagination and try out one of these creative ideas.

So you're looking for a way to make your front facade pop. Could the key could be your humble porch swing? It's an unexpected spot to find a bold color, and can freshen up the look of your whole house with minimal effort. "This yellow swing is a charmer," says Annie Elliott, the boss of Bossy Color in Washington, D.C. The key, she says, is preparation. Take the time to sand the piece well and apply the appropriate primer.

Don't limit your house numbers to merely displaying your home's address; let them tell passersby a bit about who lives there. This creative homeowner used fun accent colors and creatively arranged wood to show some personality through an otherwise perfunctory part of a home's exterior. The ways to inject color into your house numbers may be as numerable as the addresses in your city, but key to making the project work is proper placement. "With such a deep porch, this homeowner came up with a creative way to bring the house number front and center," says Elliott. Be sure to pick a spot for your colorful house numbers that serves their greater purpose: getting the pizza guy to your front door with minimal confusion.

Using metallic paint to restore luster to an old porch light is a terrific idea for enhancing curb appeal. "I love how this homeowner used a coppery color, which looks terrific against the teal clapboard," says Elliott.  The vibrant, metallic fixture brightens up the entire entry, even when the light is off.

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