Curbscapes

About Curbscapes

A house in Fort Wayne's West Central Historic District gets judged from the curb before anyone knocks on the door, and Curbscapes has spent its summers making sure that first look holds — trimmed beds, a clean edge along the front walk. In winter the same instinct turns to what's under the snow: a driveway and a front walk cleared crisp enough that the property still reads as kept up from the street. Fort Wayne's brick-paved blocks near downtown hold their ice longer than the newer asphalt streets nearby, so a walk that looks clear in the morning can still be slick heading into evening. Curbscapes treats the walk the way it treats a flower bed's edge — straight lines, no shortcuts around the porch steps. The driveway gets cleared down to the asphalt and the walk gets salted through, so the house keeps its curb appeal even in January.