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Use these colors when painting your house to sell

Okay, so you’re selling your house. It needs paint. Obviously, you want to paint it using colors that are more likely to help it sell. What are those colors? Good question. In fact, it’s so good that Zillow did a paint color analysis. They looked at more than 32,000 photos from sold homes around the country to see how certain paint colors impacted their sale price on average when compared to similar homes with white walls. Here are the full results: Zillow paint color analysis

Now, we can quibble and argue about the analysis methods and whether or not they are still valid (the test was done on homes that sold in 2017) and if there are regional differences or new trends or whatever, but this is the only analysis we’ve found, so it’s gotta be better than nothing, which is what most of us have been working with.

They list every kind of room and the best color to paint it. Additionally, the list how much more or less the home sold for. So there are the results for the best colors to use because they increase the home’s value as well as the ones to avoid because they reduce the home’s value.
So, breaking it down by room, here’s what colors you should use.

Kitchen

Light blue to soft gray-blue (avoid yellows). Everyone loves a nice light blue kitchen... right? Well, apparently people in Charlotte, NC are willing to pay as much as {price_symbol}1,800 extra when they see a light blue kitchen.

Bathroom

Light powder blue to periwinkle (avoid white). I guess the same is true of bathrooms as for kitchens, except that people in Philadephia will pay {price_symbol}5,400 extra for a nice powder blue bathroom. That’s totally worth the extra effort to re-paint that en-suite bathroom

Bedrooms

Light cerulean to cadet blue (avoid pink). As long as we’re on blue, the same folks in Philly will pay {price_symbol}1,800 more for a dark blue bedroom. But, wow! They hate pink. Does this say something about boys’ bedrooms vs. girls’ bedrooms? We don’t want to go there.

Dining room

Slate blue to pale gray-blue; navy blue also found in dining rooms with white shiplap (avoid red). Okay, so here’s more blue in the dining room. In Boston, they’ll fork over {price_symbol}1,900 additional for a blue eating space, but avoid red or it’ll cost you plenty.

Living room

Light beige, pale taupe, oatmeal (avoid blue). Finally, a room that’s not supposed to be blue! In Chicago, they’ll pay {price_symbol}1,800 more for a beige painted living room. Let the living part add soem color to your life, as long as it isn’t blue.

Exterior

Greige - mix of gray and beige (avoid brown). I wonder how many paint store employees are tired of the color “greige.” This seems like a pretty innocuous color, that would likely be approved by almost any HOA. Your home could fetch {price_symbol}1,500 more with this paint-job.

Front Door

Navy blue to dark gray or charcoal. I’ve had a front door the color of white primer for several years now because I couldn’t decide what color to paint it. Now I have a reason to pick dark blue. Yay, me! I’m not selling, but I hope it’ll be worth an extra {price_symbol}1500 when I do.

Once you’ve selected the exact shades of blue that you want to use in each room (except the living room), you will need some professional house painters to do it up quickly and efficiently. You don’t want it to look amateurish when you’re trying to sell the place. Please get some quotes from Excellent Painters, so you can get the most money for your house as soon as possible.