Staging - should we paint inside closets?
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12 years ago
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Comments (2)Yeah it's true but it's not always true. Some houses pop and crack 2 weeks after you close....some pop and crack a year later, others pop and crack 5 years later and still others never pop and crack. It depends on many factors, and since the earth is always rotating on its own axis, it's not really controllable. The reason my builders tell their customers to wait until after the first year is cost. It costs the customer money to upgrade the painting to custom colors. If they end up having to repaint areas again because of extensive drywall repair, then the customer is paying for painting custom colors twice. This may be less of a concern if you are doing the painting yourself. Plus, the construction grade paint that painters use on new construction jobs touches up very well....that's its job. And it touches up well for years. Paint that is upgraded to washable and dark colors (anything that is not a shade of white) does not touch up as well. Many builders will touch up the drywall repairs but if the homeowner has painted custom colors they will not...in other words the painter is not going to go into the home and touch up walls that the homeowner has painted. Check with your builder to see what his warranty includes because that may influence your decision. Ultimately though it's your home so you should do what you want....See MoreDo I paint the inside walls of my walk in closet?
Comments (17)When I painted by main floor closet I bought a small can of white paint and dropped in one of my gazillion BM sample pots to create a nice off-white. I would never paint the closets the color of the adjoining room in my house because I change colors way too much. I also painted my three bedroom closets last month EK Gustavian Grey which is a lovely light grey (ceilings too.) For my 5 x 5 master bedroom I ordered a fun light. I have a gorgeous rug in their that I got on clearance. I am with Jan teacats, make it fun! Final answer: Life is to short to paint a closet plain white....See MorePaint Color Inside Closets
Comments (22)I remember removing at least 5 or 6 layers of WALLPAPER from closets in my parents' house (which is from the late 1800s.) I couldn't believe that people bothered to wallpaper the closet, but I guess once there was one layer, they had to keep repapering it if they repapered the rest of the room, or else it would clash terribly. I would say it depends on if the closet is a regular, relatively small closet, or is like a separate room. And, of course, wood always looks good - some people have entirely cedar-lined closets, whether they're large or small. So they don't always have to be white. But white is standard, and I certainly don't want to have to repaint the closet every time I repaint a room. Personally, since as I have mentioned I always consider resale issues, I would not paint my closet anything but the lightest, most neutral color (if not white.) Closet color is one of those things where you can picture a buyer opening the door, and saying, "eew, that's so dated!" or "What were they thinking??? We're definitely going to have to repaint that." I like to minimize things that seem like, er... "errors in judgment".... because I think they raise issues about how the rest of the house might be maintained. (We're not selling in the immediate future, but probably in 2-3 years, and I don't want to add to the list of things I will have to redo in order to add wider appeal to my house.) And if you are someone who really loves to express yourself through color, you can probably still keep it to the more visible non-closet areas of the house, and feel perfectly "fulfilled"....See MoreWe are selling and wondering if we should paint the living room
Comments (17)First let me say that I love navy....but this photo looks like the navy walls makes the room too dark. Plus I'm just recently over my navy phase and, sorry, but navy is not neutral. Nor is it cheap to paint unless you do it yourself. Otherwise you'll be paying $1000 plus paint costs to have it redone. I hate painting walls, so while I wouldn't probably pass on a house that had living room colors I knew would need repainting, I'd offer less or consider another house with less to do. It's up to you if you want to make your house appeal to the most buyers....See Morelynxe
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