~ June 2006 Edition ~
Simple Steps to Transform or Create A Beautiful Campus

  1. Keep your campus litter-free
  2. Sweep your drives and walks
  3. Add fresh paint.  Caulk open joints first
  4. Clean windows and screens
  5. Weed landscape beds and trim plants
  6. Simplify, Unify and Beautify your signage.
  7. Add outdoor sculpture
  8. Add fountains
  9. Add a pond
  10. Simplify and unify your exterior building colors
  11. Provide benches to sit on in comfortable placed.  Use wood benches
  12. Stain untreated wood
  13. Add operable window shutters
  14. Upgrade to small paned windows
  15. Plant trees
  16. Grow climbing plants
  17. Grow potted plants in clay pots and wooden boxes
  18. Create enclosed gardens and grow vegetables, flowers and herbs
  19. Divide the campus into “outdoor rooms”.
  20. Add gateways into each “outdoor room”.
  21. Build simple paths where children walk.
  22. Invite birds and butterflies
  23. Add indoor plants and fill vases with cut flowers
  24. Take everything off the walls except meaningful, beautiful, framed pictures and paintings.


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