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Increase The Selling Price of Your Home With Paint
Bob Vila of This Old House fame tells people to "be kind to their
neighbors when picking a color scheme." His house painting advice is echoed
by realtors and builders across the country. The color that you paint your
house, they say, can affect the value of all the other houses in your
neighborhood. That's one of the reasons that many homeowner associations
limit house painting color choices for homes in their communities.
While you might feel that
house painting is a personal choice, there's a good deal of sense to
the painting restrictions that some homeowners face. A garish purple house
with Halloween orange shutters on the block can effectively make it almost
impossible for anyone else in the neighborhood to get full value for their
home if they choose to sell. A cohesive house painting color scheme that's
carried on from property to property adds enormously to the appeal of a
neighborhood.
So what colors are good choices for exterior house painting?
According to Realty Time magazine, the choices are, in order, white,
gray, blue, tan or brown, cream, beige, green, yellow and red. Of those, the
overwhelmingly most popular house painting color is white, with over 37
percent of all homeowners stating that if they were repainting a house, they
would choose white. While gray is the second most popular color, most
realtors would recommend painting your house a pale shade if that's your
choice. The reason? Lighter colors brighten a house and make it seem more
spacious.
Among the other colors, the favored shades tend to be muted tones, often in
"historical" themes. House paint manufacturers like Benjamin Moore and
Sherwin Williams often name their paint colors to cater to that trend.
Thousands of houses across the country are painted Williamsburg blue or
Colonial green.
If you do want brighter accents in your exterior house painting scheme,
advise Realtors, confine yourself to the front door and shutters. A front
door that's painted a friendly blue or warm red, they say, puts buyers in a
good mood as they enter your house. And who'd know better than the guys that
sell houses?
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