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Paint Color for selling an unfurnished home
Comments (12)igloochic, cowslip is a Valspar (Lowes) color, Laura Ashley collection. I'm no expert, but I have sold 3 houses since 2003. Two of the houses received offers within 2 weeks of listing. One was a victim of the swift decline in house prices as well as increased foreclosure properties. We still received an offer within 4 months, given the real estate climate in 2006 in that area, it was pretty good. Each was staged, but we were not living there. If at all possible, stage the house with simple furiture, art and live plants. The furniture and accessories allow people to imagine a lifestyle, not just square footage, paint and carpet. A great book is Ready, Set, Sold by Michael Corbett. It has great tips and tricks for simple staging. As for color, use what you have. Only repaint rooms that need paint. Try to keep your color choices in the middle to light section of the color card. If it's already white, then go ahead and paint. No need to go into an elaborate color scheme or to paint the whole thing builder's beige. If you choose to try to sell without staging, then your paint choices need to speak, but not yell if that makes sense. Without furniture or art on the walls, the eye has no place to rest. A furnished room tends to look larger than an empty one. I'm attaching a link from a realtor's article about colors that sell. Amazingly, the BM Pottery Barn colors are tops. Good luck. Here is a link that might be useful: Colors that Sell...See MoreColor Palette for House - Paint to Sell!
Comments (10)I would only paint a room if it needed to be freshened up. The ONLY room I would paint is the bright pink one. I am house shopping and while I understand that kids rooms usually have strong personalities, yet can be changed easily, I still feel more positive when the house has more neutral walls since I know I am going to have a lot of things to do to make the house mine, so I won't be able o get them all done at once. Having neutral wall colors just makes it easier. But none of those other colors sound jarring enough to make a difference. I would only repaint or redo a room if it had a very strong personality. That said, the two kids bedrooms in my old house both had ugly splatter painted walls that the kids did themselves before I bought it, and I still bought the house. But now that I am 15 years older, less painting is a definite plus for me. So a lot will depend on your buyers too....See MorePaint color to sell house with big walls
Comments (20)Fresh paint is worthwhile. (No, Realtors don't get any kickbacks for painting the walls.) If the walls were painted 20 years ago, then a fresh coast of neutral paint will work wonders on your parents home. If the carpet is 20 years old, then replace with something that is neutral. Listen to your Realtor - s/he knows the market and what sells and doesn't sell. Saving the money on the paint job will cost you more in the sales price - even if your home is already discounted for painting. Fresh paint, spotless cleaning and organizing and landscaping are the most effective things you can do to prepare the home before selling. You will end up with a much better bottom line (usually) - unless the house is priced out of the market....See MoreExterior Paint For Selling 1976 Home!
Comments (44)Every time I talk about paint colors, I think of the converstion Mrs. Blandings had with the painters in the 1948 movie "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." If you haven't seen it and you love old movies, it's a gem. Hope you enjoy! Muriel Blandings : I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me... Mr. PeDelford : You got that Charlie? Charlie, Painter : Red, green, blue, yellow, white. Mr. PeDelford : Check. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040613/characters/nm0001485...See Morewb14
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