Most importantly, buyers should walk in and immediately see a “very nice appeasing palette,” that piques their interest, Cannon says.
“It’s beautiful, it’s been beautiful, but it doesn’t cost that much to either DIY or have someone come in and paint the room, and it can actually net you more or sell your house faster than if you leave it.”ĭon’t worry as much about the media rooms, secondary bedrooms, or kids’ game room upstairs decorated with crazy paint years back. “We’ve seen it time and again, where we have a seller who has the red dining room, and it’s right when you walk in the house,” says Cannon. Focus your energies on spaces immediately visible from that doorway: the dining room, living room, kitchen, and any of the main living spaces. You’re on a time constraint to get this house sold, not redecorating on a rainy day. There’s a lot of steps in the process of selling your home, and home staging is just one of them. Which rooms should you paint for home staging? Sit back, relax, and get ready to immerse yourself into the neutral (but never boring) world of the best home staging paint colors. So we narrowed down your color selection with the help of real estate experts and experienced design professionals. You want to make it a neutral palette with just enough flavor to it that it’s going to appease the masses.”īut the variety of paint swatches at the hardware store are enough to make anyone’s head spin. “You don’t want it too spicy, and you don’t want it too bland. “When you’re selling your home, it’s comparable to if you’re cooking chili for 1,000 people,” says Christie Cannon, an agent who has done 1,358 real estate deals over 21 years in her Frisco, TX market. If you’ve got any walls outside the neutral zone viewable from the entryway, grab a paintbrush and a few gallons of Sherwin Williams, friend. Expertly arranged furniture and decorative accents do nothing to sell your home when staged against the “ Heartthrob” shade you picked out in ‘03. Like so many fleeting trends, the once en vogue bold paint is now a checkmark on the “cons” list for today’s homebuyers, and a colossal home staging faux pas.
And in the early 2000s, bright-red dining rooms and dramatic accent walls took the nation by storm. The ‘90s we’ll remember as the decade of frilly, patterned furniture. The ‘70s brought us avocado-colored kitchen appliances.