Set the Stage with Paint Colors for your home resale. Let Tonia Mosteller Professional Home Stager with Redesign + More help you choose the best paint colors to use when selling your home. We offer several Home Staging packages and providing service in Charlotte, NC and surrounding counties.
One of the most important rules of thumb when you're preparing your home for sale is to look at it from a buyer's point of view, not just from your own. Nowhere is that truer than in the wall colors you choose for your home. You may love strong colors and have very stylish interior decor that goes with them, but color can present several drawbacks when it comes to resale of your home.
As Charlotte, NC Home Stager Tonia Mosteller shares, "Color adds a lot of personality to an environment -- which is good and bad. If a buyer is very visual, they can see beyond a certain color; but if they aren't, the color can distract, making it hard for them to visualize themselves in the room."
Of course, I don't mean you should always paint all the rooms boring beige before you put your house on the market. In fact, that could conceivably have the opposite effect, making a house seem plain-Jane (especially if it's limited in architectural detail or is under-furnished). The ideal, is to choose colors with just the right touch of life to them: neutral enough to present a blank canvas,but interesting enough to add some character. As a professional home stager in Charlotte, NC here are a couple of my favorites paint colors, both for resale and for very livable interiors in general..
Quincy Tan HC-25, Benjamin Moore
"Putty-grey-beigey-taupe to be a very neutral, non-competitive color, but it also adds a certain depth and character that brings out the beauty of the home, rather than merely acting as a backdrop. Also, it allows you to use accents in stronger colors and still maintain a classic look."
40YY-51/084, ICI Paints.
"Grey is very trendy right now, especially warm grays like this one. It's especially beautiful in townhouses, with architectural detail picked out in white trim, like cornice and crown moldings, or marble. It's a very sophisticated color, and classic settings like this seem to suit it better than modern or too-bright settings, which might make it look cold."
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