Painting Your Home for Sale

So, it’s time for you to move. Your home has served you as well as it could but now it’s time to move on. In order to honor the place, you have called home it’s up to you to make sure it goes to the best seller possible. Unfortunately, that means it’s time to take out some of the personalization. This might feel like your stripping it of its personality, but I assure you that is not the goal. We’re simply minimizing things that could distract prospective home buyers from the houses features. We want the house’s base architectural charms to shine through so that other people can envision making a place for themselves in their new home, just as you did before them.

Do’s	Don’ts
Keep it Simple: It’s easier for people to imagine adding things on so a space then subtracting things from it. This means simple, soft colors and simple wall treatments. There is nothing that entices people looking to buy just about anything more, than lack of complication. The simpler a process is the less likely you are to lose a prospective buyer simply because they gave up or have a lack of imagination.	Complicate: It may seem like a good idea to HGTV and Home décor magazines for the newest trends. However, this just adds a different, specific personality to the walls that some buyers may have a hard time seeing around. Trendy painting techniques can be fun and interesting, but it may just force buyers to use more mental energy trying to imagine the house without it.
Let in the Light: The more light there is in a space the bigger the space looks.  This can be achieved by using lighter colors. Scientifically light colors bounce more light off its surface, meaning there’s more light being cast into the surrounding space. Brighter lighter spaces also have the benefit of being more inviting. If you want people to linger, especially prospective buyers you want the space to feel open and bright.	Close off the Space: Darker spaces have the effect of feeling and looking smaller. Dark colors absorb light, thus casting less light into the surrounding space. It’s harder to imagine filling a small space without the space feeling cluttered. So when preparing a space for other people's eyes it’s better to give off the impression of abundant space than limited space.
Keep It Cohesive: The colors you choose for the walls should tie the individual spaces in to each other. You’re going to want the house to feel like a whole, interconnected, harmonious space than a series of spaces tied together by doorways. People will want to separate and divvy up the spaces themselves, that will be easier if they first see it as a whole they can separate if they please then a series of spaces they’ll have to try to tie together.	Section-off Space: This is part of keeping spaces open and inviting. It’s off putting for a buyer to walk from one room into another room and have that room feel completely different. It feels like they would be buying into a bunch of separate spaces instead of one, singular house.

Delana Cotton servers the northeast Atlanta region that includes Dacula, Winder, Lawrenceville, Buford, Snellville, Conyers and surrounding areas. Delana treats every transaction as if she were you, the buyer or seller. If you have a real estate transaction on the horizon, meet Delana for a no pressure chat over coffee.