''Curb Appeal'' is a half-hour television series that has aired on
HGTV
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
in the United States from September 30, 1999 to the present, exploring how a house's outside "
curb appeal" will be updated. Various hosts over the years (including Sasha Andreev), talk the viewer through the planned improvements. Originally the new look was imagined by drawing the proposed changes over a
still picture of the exterior but now computer-generated visualizations are created. Changes include painting,
landscaping
Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following:
# Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal ...
, and fences, as well as
pruning
Pruning is the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots.
It is practiced in horticulture (especially fruit tree pruning), arboriculture, and silviculture.
The practice entails the targeted removal of di ...
or removing overgrown shrubs, and sometimes cutting down trees.
John Gidding is now the only host and more recent episodes involve multiple homes on a San Francisco Bay Area block, and are titled ''Curb Appeal''. There has also been at least one hour-long
Christmas special
Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists and writers. A prominent aspect of Christian media, the topic first appeared Christmas in literature, in literature and Christmas music, in music. Filmmakers have picked up on this wealth o ...
, ''A Very Merry Curb Appeal'', with two homes adorned with
Christmas decoration
A Christmas decoration is any of several types of ornamentation used at Christmas and the greater Christmas and holiday season. Typical images on Christmas decorations include Baby Jesus, Mother Mary, angels, Father Christmas, Santa Cla ...
s.
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1999 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
HGTV original programming
Makeover reality television series
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