I want to sell my home. What are good interior and exterior paint colors to attract buyers?

Exterior Colors
In picking exterior colors, some colors simply clash with their environment. It might be fun to live in the only bright yellow house on the street, but you must realize that the buyer is new to the neighborhood and does not need the added attention of a canary yellow home. The best colors should take into consideration other homes in the neighborhood and additional environmental surroundings. According to Bob Vila, former host of “This Old House,” earth tones play well in natural settings such as wooded lots. The color also should take into account other features of the home. A good color takes into account the roof color, stonework, bricks and other elements of the home. The color selection also depends somewhat on the vegetation on the lot. Shrubs and trees might impact your choice of exterior color. Lastly, some homes simply feature an architectural style that demands conforming to some traditional colors. As Vila says, Colonial-style homes often look their best with white exteriors, but ranch-style homes are more appealing with more color.

Living Room Colors
The key to living room color is to combine warmth with neutrality. Warm colors are inviting and give a living room a little more character than plain white walls would. Meanwhile, the use of neutral colors ensures that the walls do not conflict with the potential buyers’ plans for the room. Remember that home buyers already have furniture to bring into the home, and they are unlikely to paint or buy new furniture to accommodate bold colors in a living room. Good neutral colors feature creamy whites, muted beiges and light gray tones. A living room is the most likely room to be repainted at some point. Therefore, it is the one room where you can be a little stylish. Check on trends and consider incorporating those color styles into a living room. It might help you sell your house.

Kitchen Colors
The key to kitchen color is to pick something bright. Most buyers want a bright kitchen. After all, this is the place where meals will be prepared, and they need to see the food they are dicing, slicing, chopping, frying and baking. How can you tell if your steak is ready if you can’t see the color? Light colors help add brightness to the room. Light bounces off of them. At the same time, plain white walls are dull and unappealing. Pale yellow, light olive and warm beiges are great kitchen colors.

Bedroom Colors
Bedrooms are designed for relaxation. They are not areas of a home buyers expect to showcase for guests. Therefore, there is little need to establish trendy looks in these rooms. Instead, bedroom colors should be mild, soft tones. Eggshell whites, beiges, lighter grays, light yellows and light olives work well in bedrooms.

Bathroom Colors
Many homeowners make the mistake of going with bold colors in bathrooms. An essential approach to bathrooms is to select colors that emphasize space. Bathrooms are often relatively small spaces, and a small bathroom can turn many buyers away. After all, who wants to knock out a wall to make more bathroom space? Warm whites are great for making bathrooms look larger than they are. Stay away from darker colors. Deep reds, browns, yellows and blues make bathroom walls leap toward a viewer. This makes the room look extremely small.

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The answer is, that depends. I’ll ask a clarifying question to find out more. Do you want to sell your home to someone like you, or do you want to sell it to someone who wants your house soon? If it’s someone like you, express your style on the interior of your home as well as the exterior, as long as your HOA or CC&Rs don’t preclude your taste. If you want to sell your home quickly to the willing buyer, keep in mind you want your home to be a blank canvas for them to be able to express their own taste and style.

Neutral colors for exterior(light colors make your home look bigger).Beige colors are always popular and go with most decor but grays are very popular at the moment. If yor neighborhood has mostly older home owners you may want to go with a mid tone beige. If its more of a 30 something neighborhood or younger go with what is popular. From my experiance in hommes i have flipped and homes i have painted that are going up for sale painting can be the most cost effective upgrade you can do. It covers the most ground for the money and covers up what buyers could see as future problems and exspence. It is also hard for a potential buyer to see what a finished product will look like and can help them to see what thier vision for there new home could look like.

Standard colors like Ben Moore barely beige, muslin, or manchester tan are all good choices.

If you go to your local paint store, they have great examples put together to help guide you in the right direction. Typically what color scheme is best are neutral colors, so the potential buyer can imagine their own furniture or lawn arts and colors (or whatever they have to set outside). If you pick bold, bright colors the potential buyers will be to distracted to imagine their own stuff there. Also for the exteriors it helps to not have the neighboring homes color clash with your home as well. Hope this helps good luck.

As a painting company, Design Works Custom Painting, Inc. that has been around in Las Vegas for close to 30 years, I feel that neutral colors are the way to go. In the “boom time” when people were selling and buying in the masses, 90% of customers for residential properties requested tans and neutral colors because it looks clean and the potential buyer can see themselves buying the house and putting in their own touches once they move in. When you paint in a “dark color” it limits the potential buyer by a lot. Some people cant see past the color and cannot see themselves buying the house. It is very important to stage the house for a wide market.