5 Best Paint Colors to Market and Sell Your Starter Home
First-time homeownership means you have options. Once you get the keys to the house, it’s exciting. Finally, you get to reflect your true personality through part of your house. From the architecture to interior decorating to landscaping, placing your personal stamp on the home makes the whole homeownership thing feel “real”.
After living with family or escaping the “renter’s life”, new homeowners find it easier to make changes via paint color. Bye-bye boring walls. Hello, retro, avocado green?
With wall colors that vibe with your personality, only those who know you best, will understand your unique and interesting taste in wall color. Somehow it “works” for you. Deep down, they’re not so sure the paint color could ever work out for their home. But, they love it for you.
Color is personal. It expresses who you are and how you want to feel. You might love the “retro avocado green” for a few years and then decide to visit the paint store. So, why would you ever want to change your paint color?
Marketing a House with Color
According to Better Homes & Gardens, a premium wall paint lasts over a decade. That’s great news for homeowners. However, there are homeowners that change the paint color much sooner. Professional painters have noticed that most new painting projects involve a request to change interior paint color within 5 to 10 years to suit the homeowner’s personal tastes.
When a homeowner considers selling the property, it’s another reason for a paint color update.
If you’re thinking about selling the house, take an assessment of each room’s wall color. Stand back. Put yourself in the homebuyer’s shoes. Could you appreciate the home’s overall appearance based on the price point?
Keep in mind, a unique and personal wall color may not excite every homebuyer. Creative color choices have been known to put limits on gaining the greatest number of potential homebuyers to engage with the home’s greatest features and amenities.
Homebuyers want a house that will resolve their problems. They want a house that’s “move-in ready”. In essence, they want the house that blends well with their own color palette in furnishings, décor accents and art.
As a marketer of the property, it’s vital to show potential homebuyers the value in purchasing the house. If you’re not sure what color to consider, try one of the paint color favorites for staging and marketing a house.
The ideal colors to market and sell your house with paint are…
1. Agreeable Gray (SW 7029)
As the gray color trend fades out of style, this warmer gray may be one of the most popular colors for staging a home. Agreeable Gray works well due to its flexibility with fixed elements in the home that usually have gray undertones. Plus, this color works in most spaces without drawing too much attention.
2. Alabaster (SW 7008)
This color serves as a subtle warm white. It complements homes with warmer colors in flooring and furniture while adding light and a touch of comfort for visitors.
3. Chantilly Lace (BM OC-65)
If the interior calls for a cooler white, this is the best color choice. It has a slight blue undertone and works well with homes that boast a crisp, clean and modern finish.
4. Balboa Mist (BM OC-27)
A nice griege (beige + gray) color like Balboa Mist, may never go out of style. This light taupe serves as one of the lighter griege tones within this color family. It settles a bright room while tying in the gray undertones found in some wood flooring and other fixed elements.
5. Biscuit (SW 6112)
Rooms with a warmer vibe blend well in a room with this warmer beige of orange and yellow undertones. It’s the best color to transition from gray if your fixed elements and textiles allow for it. Also, today’s latest trends of clay colors and earth tones may blend well with this paint color.
If you’ve living with a taste-specific style and wall colors, it’s okay. You expressed the best of you while living in your house. Now, you can think of changing the wall color as laying out the “neutral” welcoming mat for the next homeowner to add their personal touch to the house.