Narrow, winding stairs and an overgrown trumpet vine and small tree that block the front door add to the house's uncared-for look.

Before: Plain Jane With overgrown landscaping along with a disappear-into-the-background white paint color, this California bungalow was generally thought of as among the least attractive homes on the block. Narrow, winding stairs and an overgrown trumpet vine and small tree that block the front door add to the house's uncared-for look.

Following: Colorful Cottage To create the home pop, designer John Gidding chooses sunny yellow for the siding and cheery turquoise to the front door. The winding stairs have been straightened and widened to draw attention to the front entry which is shaded by a honeysuckle-coverered arbor. The homeowners are not big fans of mowing the grass so John eliminated the lawn in favour of a broad stone route flanked by plants that were overburdened.

Before: Hidden Gem Overgrown vegetation, ramshackle wood siding and a treacherous looking front porch combine to provide this rambling Texas ranch a haunted house appearance.

After: Ranch-Style Standout Fixer Upper's Processor and Joanna Gaines worked their magic to provide the formerly rundown ranch a massive curb appeal increase. Because of a little selective trimming, the front lawn's ancient tree is now an asset rather than an eyesore while the present cedar siding has been brought back to life with a fantastic sanding and cleaning to reveal fresh wood prior to resealing. A low stacked stone wall along with fresh landscaping soften up the faade.

Before: Faded Belle The homeowners are a couple of the French Quarter's most vibrant characters but their residence's vanilla facade is definitely lacking. A fall of weeds fill the beds that line the porch along with the cement set-back glass walls . or little area that separates the home by the sidewalk, is broken and unlevel.

After: Big Style in the Big Easy Jason Cameron comes to the belle's rescue with kicky paint colors, a bluestone patio to replace the crumbling concrete and a cast-stone fountain. The weedy beds are given a tropical makeover with dwarf pygmy date palms and striped stromanthe that tie in with the home's new colour palette.

Before: A Architectural Mismatch Dubbed "the cargo ship house" by Fixer Upper's Chip Gaines, this long, grey and dull exterior was certainly short on charm. The ranch-style brick portion was originally built in 1958 using the wood-clad second narrative tacked on as a later addition.

Following: An Artful Accession Wow, what a transformation! Chip and Joanna radically took this house from sad to float using a porch bump-out which has post-and-beam building, horizontal railing and a flagstone porch and staircase. Woodsy green paint, new windows and black shutters additionally boost the home's curb appeal.

Before: Overgrown Adobe The black sheep of this street, this small Spanish Colonial Revival-style home constructed in the 1920s, is a rarity in suburban Atlanta. It has the potential to be a true gem in the area but using a barren yard, overgrown arbor and faded stucco, it only stands out for its rundown appearance.

After: Spanish-Style Standout The that the Curb Appeal team begin the makeover in the curb with this one, creating wide tile-accented steps that lead from the street to the new front porch that spans the whole length of the house's facade. The front yard is replaced by a circular stone courtyard surrounded by hardy ferns, petunias and banana plants.

Before: Past Its Prime Built in 1959, this midcentury modern rancher isn't the typical candidate for a makeover in Fixer Upper Chip and Jo's signature farmhouse design but the property's location and size won on the homeowners.

After: Mid-Mod, Made-Over A new coat of white paint brightens up the previously muddy brick while cedar mullions upgrade the home's signature midcentury modern architectural characteristic: the floor-to-ceiling corner window. A fitting cedar front doorway and window boxes tie into the window's brand new look. To further lighten the property's outside, Joanna swapped the brick at the reduced planters for grey stacked stone. Low plantings of ferns, ornamental grasses, dwarf laurels and Indian hawthorn replace the home's leggy, overgrown boxwoods.

Ahead: Hiding in Plain Sight Evergreens are great for year round color in your landscape but if you don't plan to always keep them trimmed, they can grow too large to work as plants.

After: Can't-Miss Yellow Cousins Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri eliminate the overgrown evergreens, substituting them with oakleaf hydrangeas, hostas and bronze-leafed heuchera. Bright chartreuse false cypress really liven up the landscape and pair beautifully with the house's bright yellow front doorway.

Before: Dark and Forboding Recessed doorways are great because your entrance is guarded from the weather but they are generally dark. Painting the door black doesn't help to brighten things up.

After: Warm Welcome A couple of coats of fuchsia paint require this formerly ho-hum front doorway from drab to fab. The cheery pink theme is carried to pots flanking the door filled with bouganinvillea and candytuft. The terracotta tile steps and board-and-batten siding also receive a makeover with fresh coats of hot, neutral paint.

Before: Well-Built but Bland With all-brick construction, large windows plus a circle drive, this house has good bones however its monochromatic color palette and uninspired landscaping may use a pick-me-up.

After: Classic Transformation Fixer Upper's Chip and Jo pulled off a big   update for minimal effort with just a few swaps. They replaced the uninspired rows of boxwoods with decorative grasses and other low growers so they do not compete with the home's first long windows. To give the entryway more presence, the front door market was eliminated and Jo added a pair of beveled glass French doors surrounded by big glistening black planters and fitting gas light-style lanterns.

Before: Haunted House? The owners of the century-old San Francisco house are parents to five kids, including two sets of twins, therefore yardwork and house maintenance has taken a back seat to raising their family. This home is also, unsurprisingly, a hub of activity each Halloween when the owners put the Victorian forboding looks to use as the area haunted house.

Following: High-Style Victorian John discovered that the house was white since its structure (120 years ago!) So in keeping with true Victorian fashion, he chose not to less than seven paint colours to really make this painted lady the area showstopper. To complement the historical architecture, that the Curb Appeal group replaced the front lawn using a parterre -- a formal garden composed of symmetrical hedges and planting beds joined with paths.

Before: '60s Modernist The present owners were attracted to the house's Modern aesthetic and streamlined details however, the ho-hum landscaping is definitely missing. Three generations of one family live here and wish to have the ability to use the scenic, uneven front yard as more of a gathering and enjoyable area.

After: A Nod to Midcentury Mod Designer John Gidding made a decision to conserve the existing mature trees, creating a massive deck to encircle them. The front yard is elimated with a concrete retaining wall that brings up the deck front door elevation. Concrete planters at road level are full of boulders, agave and desert grasses while rosemary tumbles across the wall in the deck.

Before: '70s Mish-Mash NYC techies, tired of cramped quarters, decided to relocate to Texas where everything is larger. Browsing homes on the internet, they discovered this split whose recently remodeled inside had what they were looking for and they immediately decided to purchase it -- without seeing the house in individual. Once they proceeded, they discovered that the home's exterior was urgently in need of a remodel too.

After: Neutral Natural Contractor Jason Cameron and the Desperate Landscapes crew come to their rescue with a new neutral color palette which better combines the house's siding with the piled stone facade. Boulders and layers of drought-tolerant, native plants, like the blooming Texas redbud, ensure that this fully landscaped front yard will be easy for the homeowners to maintain.

Ahead: The Neighborhood Eyesore Constructed in 1927, this huge home sat vacant and uninhabitable for several years before a brave couple bought it in the city of Waco to get a mere $24,000. Then they worked with Fixer Upper's Chip and Jo to turn the derelict house to a gracious home.

After: The Neighborhood All-Star Can you think this beauty was hiding behind the overgrowth? Chip and Jo removed the land around the house so they could start fresh with new sod and plantings. The house's existing porches were dangerous so that they were rebuilt however, the almost century-old windows were salvaged with new top and a new coat of crisp, white paint. A new wide concrete pathway, lined with variegated fighter marijuana, beckons visitors to drift up onto the front porch.

Before: Blank Slate The homeowners bought this house two years ago but with three young boys -- two with specific needs -- all their power and finances go toward the kids, leaving nothing to fixing up the front yard.

Following: Craftsman Cutie The homeowners would like to have the ability to relax in the backyard while keeping your eye on their parents and chatting with neighbors. Designer John Gidding delivered by expanding their too-small front porch and adding new measures which lead down to some broad walkway flanked by a long curving bench. A low gated wall divides front lawn from the sidewalk and really leaves the front yard feel more like an outdoor area.

Before: Tattered Belle The youthful couple inherited this huge home from an elderly relative. Years of deferred maintenance -- peeling paint and an overgrown juniper bush -- have made this home the neighborhood eyesore.

After: Grand Dame To return this elegant home to its elegant roots, that the Curb Appeal group beefs up the moldings surrounding the entryway and windows. Look-at-me colours and a two-tone palette make the home feel much bigger. An usable low area to the rear of the entrance is transformed into a sunken deck surrounded by planters full of cheery annuals that tie in with the home's magenta front doorway and tall cypress trees to get height.

Before: Overgrown Bachelor Pad Fifteen years as home base to a bachelor with no time or interest in lawn maintenance has caused a front yard so overgrown that a family of deer after transferred in and took up residence. Now married, the young California couple who own this house are all set to clean up their act but do not know where to begin.

Following: Manicured Zen Garden Mixed in with all the weeds were a lot of boulders and rocks so designer John Gidding decided to work them in the design. Ornamental grasses, pieris Japonica, loropetalum and other low-maintenace plants match with the backyard's Zen feel while being simple to look after so the homeowners can keep the garden's good looks.

Before: Forgotten Front Yard Located in a desirable Atlanta suburb, this Cape Cod-style home ought to be one of the highlights on the road but instead the overgrown, weedy lawn, broken weapon and peeling paint make it an eyesore.

After: Open and Inviting The that the Curb Appeal team begin by demoing the metallic fence to open the property up into the street in which a stone path leads to the house that's been freshly painted in cool blue using a pop of cheery yellow on front door. The homeowners weren't big fans of mowing the grass so John removed it in favor of mulch and ornamental grasses.

Before: Reno Gone Wrong Selected out of hundreds of submissions as America's most desperate landscape, this home outside San Diego is an embarassment not only for the homeowners but for the entire neighborhood. The yard is unlevel, filled with weeds and littered with the remains of home improvement projects gone bad.

After: California Cool Contractor Jason Cameron along with the Desperate Landscapes team start by removing the building debris, then the improvements begin with a new travertine terrace shaded by a streamlined wood slat pergola. The present boulders are moved to the lot's corner where they're joined by tons more stone to get a royal accent. The landscaping goes from lacking to verdant with mature native trees and shrubs as well as also the siding and garage door receive a fresh coat of paint.

Before: Failing Fixer-Upper The first-time homebuyers fell in love with this particular home's possible but, bogged down from interior projects, they do not have time to attack the front lawn or porch where siding-clad supports create a dark, claustrophobic feel and aren't original to the home's Craftsman style.

Following: Charming Craftsman John replaces the siding-clad columns for Craftsman-style tapered wood columns that are more in keeping with the house's original character. The couple only used the front yard for a path from the driveway so John swapped out the small lawn for a new, wide walkway surrounded by heuchera, pentas, succulents and low-maintenance grasses.

Before: Bland and Boring With a tiny front yard and style-less facade, this clapboard home in Atlanta, Georgia doesn't have much going for this.

Following: Folk Victorian With such a tiny lot, landscaping takes a back seat to enhancing the home's architecture. John and staff pull out all the stops with the addition of layers of gingerbread-style trim that's reminiscent of true Victorian architecture. So the house's main color doesn't detract from the trimming details, the team paints it a hot neutral tan rescue the trendy purples and blues for the trimming. To complete the fairytale appearance, a picket fence lines the front along with a brick path contributes to the turquoise front door.