Tips for Selling Your Home
According to Zillow, there are exterior and interior paint colors that buyers prefer, and using them can boost your home’s value by thousands when selling. Luxe Pro Painting will asssist you with paint color decisions to drive up your resale value when selling your home.
Exterior Inspiration Photos
Many real estates sites have noted that traditional colors, such as white, greys, blues, creamy beige, beige/browns, and greens sell the best...and increase the value!
Exterior
Aside from spending thousands on home renovations that can increase the home’s value, there are some less expensive changes available that can affect your home’s resale value, like paint color.
A home’s exterior is the first impression – and first impressions are everything. “Color can be a powerful tool for attracting buyers to a home, especially in listing photos and videos,” says Svenja Gudell, Zillow chief economist.
The first thing a buyer sees while waiting to enter your home is the curb appeal, which includes the exterior of your home. A neglegted exterior can often times ward off buyers before you can get them through the door. You may have a beautiful interior, although a poor exterior may keep buyers from ever seeing it. Improving the curb appeal of your home can have a huge positive effect on selling your home. This includes any siding, porch railings, decks, adding a pop of color to doors, etc. Choosing the proper colors for your exterior is key. The right color should help your home stand out without being intimidating or too bold for most buyers.
Interior
According to the Zillow Group Consumer Housing Trends Report 2020, the average seller makes 2.3 renovations or improvements to prepare to sell, and 79% of sellers make at least one home improvement. The most common project is painting the interior (35 percent of sellers).
When selling your home your color choices should not be based on personal preference since you want to appeal to broad market of buyers. Therefore, your color choices should be neutral to allow a potential buyer to envision your home as their space. Buyers will try to envision living in your home and neutralizing personal choices throughout your home will allow the buyer to picture their belongings in the home. Using light neutral colors will help brighten the space and make it appear larger to the buyer. If a potential buyer enters the home and sees bold paint colors throughout they may have trouble envisioning living in the space, and they will also know that they will need to paint the space, which may deter potential buyers.
Interior Inspiration Photos
Living rooms with walls in soft beige, taupe, or oatmeal were the clear winners in sales and higher sale prices, according to Zillow. These earth tones are light enough to open up a room yet also lend a pleasant organic warmth.
See these before and after interior photos below from Curbio.com. Here you can see how painting the wood paneling in this home lightened up the space. It instantly feels more modern and welcoming. Also, take a look at that fireplace! (Curbio.com)
Photo Source Curbio.com
Before
Photo Source Curbio.com
After
82% of experts recommend warm-tinted neutral paint for selling because of the likelihood that it won't turn away buyers for being too bright or too cold. Warm colors are welcoming, and neutrals don't impose your personal style, so they're great for inviting prospective buyers to see their future in your home.
Best Neutral Exterior Paint Colors
Color preferences are personal and highly subjective, so when you're selling, choosing a popular exterior house color that will appeal to as many people as possible is smart. Often, that means selecting a neutral—like one of these popular picks:
Behr Painter's White
Behr color expert Erika Woelfel recommends focusing on earth tones, neutrals, and mid-tones. Why pick Painter's White out of all of Behr's exterior paint colors? "[It] calls attention to the outside of your home and plays well with almost any color," Woelfel explains.
Benjamin Moore Simply White
In addition to Simply White, many expert suggestions for popular exterior house colors come from Benjamin Moore's historical collection, which has become a go-to resource for exterior paints. Highlights include Coventry Gray, Van Courtland Blue, Alexandria Beige, and Putnam Ivory.
Sherwin-Williams Accessible Beige
Interior designer and Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate agent Sheree Douglas Brock points out that color preferences vary throughout the country, yet she always supports universal neutrals and putty colors, including Sherwin-Williams' Accessible Beige and Benjamin Moore's Simply White.
Ashley Banbury, who also acts as the senior color designer for HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams, points to airy shades, such as blue, gray, and beige, to appeal to a broad swath of homebuyers. In her experience, Sherwin-Williams' Krypton, Repose Gray, and Maison Blanche are also among the most popular neutral shades.
Best Neutral Interior Paint Colors
To simplify the process, the paint colors listed are fairly neutral, easy to match, and can be used in most rooms. With this list of the best paint colors for your home, we’ll make the process as simple as possible. Let’s start with a shade that climbed from number ten to the top spot in a year’s time.
Origami White By Sherwin Williams
Sherwin Williams’ Origami White (SW 7636) is a balanced, modern wall color and our top pick for interior paint color this year. Certainly, it’s white with a slight tan undertone that can be a neutral backdrop for most rooms in your house. But what we love most is Origami White’s versatility. Origami White’s unique warm hue is why many interior decor experts swear by it as the perfect neutral paint color. Underrated no more, this color exemplifies the fresh and inviting theme of the trendiest interior paint colors of the year.
Behr Blank Canvas (DC-003)
Blank Canvas (DC-003) is a warm white neutral that has earned its distinction as Behr’s 2023 color of the year. Not only is it an inviting light neutral paint color, it perfectly encompasses a fresh new start. Certainly something we can all use after the past few years of uncertainty. Behr’s Blank Canvas has an earthy tinge of brown which characterizes it as an off-white color. At the same time, it’s light enough of a white to contrast other neutrals. This makes it a great color for kitchen cabinets as well.
