Homes show better and sell faster when staged with uncluttered furnishings and neutral, light, current colors. I would definitely recommend painting everything a warm white like BM mascarpone, walks and ceilings and leave trim white. Remove wallpaper or put sheet rock up like you suggested. Google articles on staging your home for selling, there is a lot of helpful info out there.

Congratulations on your upcoming new home! The best resource for preparing your existing home is your real estate agent.

As tinan said, choose a "dark white" or light beige for the walls, with a lighter, softer white for the trim. You want enough contrast that the trim stands out. Ask your real estate agent for a recommendation about the embossed dining room ceiling -- it could be a selling point or a detriment, depending on your potential buyers,

I'm not sure why you're considering covering the wallpaper with sheetrock when It would be much simpler to strip the paper. The sheetrock, even if only 1/4" thick, will be make your trim look flimsier and will be very tricky to fit around trim. Also, lots of buyers like the plaster walls in older homes, so covering them could actually work against you, unless they are in terrible shape.

What style is your home? Wainscot is not appropriate for a lot of '30s homes.

Well, I'd like to say, "Have fun!" but realistically that will have to wait until you move into your new home!

Do as tinan suggests. We painted our entire vacation house one very neutral , BM natural wicker with white trim. Took down every single personal item, had absolutely nothing out on the bathroom vanities,sprayed down all the counters everytime before a showing with Mr clean with febrees, smelled so nice. On the 16 th day we had 3 offers 2 of them full price! Do all the prepping BEFORE you put it on the market. You only have one time to make a first impression.

Two suggestions for light neutrals: SW Ivoire or SW Kilim Beige. I'd do all trim in a crisp white (SW Extra White or Pure White). White = clean to prospective buyers.

A vote for another neutral: Carrington Beige HC-93 by BM.

Use it everywhere -- with fresh white trim and ceilings.

Make sure that the rooms have been decluttered -- and use lots of lamps around the spaces.

My favorite BM neutrals: Manchester tan and edgecmb gray. Trim: simply white. It sounds like you should leave the ceiling green.

Agree with pp, declutter! Good luck.

My house has just gone on the market, after we spent literally months decluttering (we have multiple storage units and made many, many trips to the dump) and "staging." All of the realtors we interviewed had absolutely nothing to add, saying that we did everything right. Whether this will translate to a sale in my market, which is still down, I don't know.

But, I'll add a vote for "neutral color," if that makes sense. We did not go with beige or off-white throughout. Every paint color is a more neutral version of the color, but there is still color. I'm not saying all-beige is always bad, but in our case using actual colors (yellow, greens) combined with neutral creams and "greige" in other rooms is really bringing out the trim (which is all white) and making the most of the space and natural light.

The house used to be all white (which I know is different from all-beige) and it looked terrible.

I'd also say... I know that removing wallpaper is a lot of work, but I think that covering it up with drywall would be a bad idea for at least a couple reasons.

I agree with what others have already said. I would paint over the red in the living room and remove the wallpaper, and paint both rooms the same color, something neutral, in a manner described above by Lizzie_nh.

Generally embossed ceiling tiles look nice regardless of the color. You might be able to leave them green if you have green fabric items in the room.

I would skip the wainscoting and new wallboard in favor of just removing the wallpaper. If the paper doesn't come off well, you may need to have the walls skimcoated - that's easier and cheaper than wainscoting and new wallboard.

Well thanks for all the ideas so far. The issue of removing wallpaper versus sheetrock over it is a mute point now, husband took down all the 1/4 sheetrock that the wall paper was on while I was at work last night, so already done, will put up new sheetrock and paint. Now down to the shiplap on the walls anyway, original color of room was apparently blue/green lighter sort of color. At least he took down the silk roman shades in the room so can take that with me to paint store to look at how different neutrals will look the kitchen that feeds into dining room is a already a neutral color, but has a lot of yellow undertones i think, think it was something like navajo white or along those lines. Still not sure on ceiling, don't think will look right as dark green or appeal to that many people.

Well thanks for all the ideas so far. The issue of removing wallpaper versus sheetrock over it is a mute point now, husband took down all the 1/4 sheetrock that the wall paper was on while I was at work last night, so already done, will put up new sheetrock and paint. Now down to the shiplap on the walls anyway, original color of room was apparently blue/green lighter sort of color. At least he took down the silk roman shades in the room so can take that with me to paint store to look at how different neutrals will look the kitchen that feeds into dining room is a already a neutral color, but has a lot of yellow undertones i think, think it was something like navajo white or along those lines. Still not sure on ceiling, don't think will look right as dark green or appeal to that many people.

A neutral green is a good color for home staging. Not everything has to be "builder beige" Something like BM Stolen Moments could work in your DR to give it a bit of life while not being "out there" grass green.

The key to any "neutral", even if it's an actual color is that it's light, it's got a lot of tan, or it's got a lot of gray. The color whispers and stays in the background. You're not trying to obliterate the home's personality, just mute it down.

So, for the red room, you could actually do a very beigey pink, and all of the accessories that you've chosen for the room would still work with it. Colors in that range are very flattering to most skin tones.

BM Wild Aster

Or, to go to the greyer side, BM Raindrops on Roses, which I would buy for the name alone! LOL!