It's simple, quick and inexpensive, but do not make the mistake that it can cure every homes woes. To do it properly when selling you must follow some essential rules of using paint as an element of your house selling task list. Mark Nash writer of 1001 Tips for Purchasing and Selling a Home shares some tried and tested on how to get the maximum mileage out of repainting a room or a whole house.
The key is to keep the eye moving. Lately a home seller had painted each room on the first floor a different bold trend color, it shrunk the home visually and made it much darker. A new tone-on-tone color scheme I suggested expanded and lightened the house, and it sold shortly after the redo.
White is a fail-safe trim color.
-To expand room height paint the ceiling a different but light color than the walls. A decorator tip that really works is to add some blue hint to your white ceiling color.
-For a quality paint job, preparation is significant. Walls and trim should be sanded, spackled and cleaned, for paint to stick properly.
Prime everything once to even existing surface colours out before using finish colors.
-Use quality paints. It might not make sense to buy better paint if you will not like it, but cheap paints can really cheapen a painting and the home.
-Bring paint samples home from home improvement stores to accurately match with carpets and fabrics. Paint manufactures now offer sample sizes, do a wall test of any color your thinking about using. Colors look different in different lighting and times of day.
Buyers will think it'll take extra time and expense to get rid of them.
-Do take the effort to put down drop garments, tape trim and window mullions, remove switch plates and curtain hardware. Paint drips and stains lack attention of detail to home buyers.
-Think twice before have a bath tub or ceramic tile repainted or finished. To get a good new finish on these surfaces is troublesome and buyers run from bubbled bathtub make over's.
-If you are not the best painter or time-starved to do the job right, hire a professional to come in and paint. You can focus on other jobs to be done before the selling of your home starts and it'll eliminate additional stress.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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