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Exterior Design Dilemma Buying and Selling Homes

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last year

I am selling my house and my real estate agent recommended changing the colors of my shutters and front door because red/maroon and yellow is a little outdated.

What are your thoughts? What color would you do?

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susan49417

last year

In my opinion, those red shutters and door color would not deter me from buying the house. Spend your time and energy on cleaning and decluttering inside to get your house ready to sell.

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HALLETT & Co.
last year
Photos would help us help you.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
Can we see the house please. Just post the pic in a comment here it is sometimes hard to add to a post . Please do not start another post.
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I recommend that you check out what you can do to reveal the brickwork and stonework around your windows and setbacks. I don't know what can be scraped off, but I don't think ornamental shutters will look good on top of them. A fiberglass fabricator could probably embellish the columns in several ways, including providing squared off caps and footings Actually moving them needs to be checked out carefully for structure support, which I presume you know. I still don't favor moving the columns to create a wide opening. In the part of the world where I live (New England) a wide columned portico is almost an iconic logo for a senior living facility, as directional as the MacDonald's arch If it isn't so where you live, don't worry about it. I quite like the idea of creating a balcony, and for that money, I'd make it so I could use it, with double doors leading out to it and safe support underneath. (I think I'd skip the ground level railings and maybe increase the size of the oval window.) But it would be a good investment I think.
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cpartist
last year
Yes post a pic so we can help you choose a color
Aimee Willis
Original Author
last year
Omg I cannot believe I forgot to post a photo. I’m so sorry. Here it is.
Aimee Willis
Original Author
last year
I’m not painting the house. Her recommendation was pressure washing my house and changing out the red burgundy shutters and my door is red burgundy not black.
njmomma
last year
It’s a beautiful house. It will sell as is. As mentioned above, put your focus elsewhere.
Rachel Lee
last year
Paint the shutters white, and the door light blue.
littlebug Zone 5 Missouri
last year
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They look like budget shutters. If I were going to do anything with them, I’d take them off and toss them before powerwashing.

Is there a constant drip here from the gutter above? Might need attention.
Aimee Willis
Original Author
last year
We replaced the roof and fixed that run off that you noticed.
sofikbr
last year
Shatters i would paint white and door dark green or dark blue or even red…
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
IMO the double windows should not have shutters at all so that leaves the ones above the garage and those need to be bigger and honestly I would paint those and the front door black. As mnetioned the interior is the selling point. Clean and then clean again remove and store all personal pictures little gee gaws for whoever and thats it . IMO do not use strong smelling cleaning products and amke sure after the deep clean you air out the house . No air fresheners
la_la Girl
last year
I agree that white shutters and a light blue door would be a simple way to freshen up the front of the house like @Rachel Lee suggests -- and easy DIY paint job with no down side.
cpartist
last year
Remove the shutters They look fake Pain the door a nice blue color

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