Getting ready to sell your home? Does your house need fresh paint?
Selling your home? Suggestions from a professional painter.
The basics: Choosing a color for your home. Choose a classic or neutral color-scheme and if you can, hire a professional to help you stage your house and choose complimentary colors. If you want to go it alone then choose colors that are not going turn off a large portion of the buying market. Chances are a new home buyer will repaint their bedroom and the kids room or add an accent wall here and there so there is no reason to try to paint the walls in these rooms under the assumption that they will never need to be painted again. That goes for the exterior as well as the interior. Consult a professional, for no additional cost, you can have an hour with a professional color consultant at your home, just ask Eric Welch Painting how. It’s not fun to pick neutral colors or paint over your red accent wall but chances are neither is selling your home and the goal is make a sale. Offer a clean slate for all the new, possible home owners, offer a blank canvas, one free from faults and clean. Something that a new buyer will appreciate and not be distracted by. Do not limit potential home buyers with loud colors. Use colors that add depth and light to a room.
Fix cracks, dry wall tape that is pulling away from a seam, and nail-pops. If a hole in the wall was previously fixed and is still visible, make sure to re-patch and match the texture. Use a stain-blocker primer on any water marks. Repaint the trim if it is fading and chipping. Often times window sills are very discolored and will not clean to a bright luster. A fresh coat of paint will make all trim, baseboards and doors look new again. Use Aura from Benjamin Moore, this is the best trim paint that I have found. It will coat in one in most situations and dries to a very smooth, hard surface. It looks great.
Any cracks in the ceiling or chipped paint on the door frames will lower the perceived value of your home. In this competitive buyers market make sure to have your home looking its best. Be smart about where you put your money. Painting your home's interior or exterior in Madison has proven to be one of the most economical ways to add value and curb appeal to a home.
Eric Welch
I get calls all the time from clients that want to fix up their home before putting it on the market. Eric Welch Painting offers a great service in this department. For a much more reasonable cost, we can repaint your kitchen cabinets or fix your entryway walls and repaint your front door. For curb appeal, we can add fresh new color to your exterior in Madison or our painters can make the children's room look new again all while using eco-friendly painting products.
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I'm actually involved in selling houses and exactly what has been said in this post is absolutely true. You must paint your home with exterior painting and interior painting. If you don't then you are presenting an inferior second hand product. If you were going to buy a new home you would at least expect that home to well presented and that means a fresh paint job inside and out.
My House needs fresh paint! Any takers? I am actually in the process of selling my home also and after reading this blog I have been convinced it is the correct thing to do to get my house painted inside and out. I never realized the outside of the house needed to be painted too although I should have done. So thanks to this I will look at having my exterior walls painted asap
@William, Painting the exterior of your home and making sure it is looking good is very important. Peeling paint is a huge problem for a prospective buyer and cracks in the siding are unsightly and mean that water has probably infiltrated the house's shell. A good exterior paint job will make sure the house is sealed up tight and prepared for the weather ahead. Check out this blog post for more information.
Thanks, Eric
Those are some very helpful suggestions. The key is to choose colors that are easily noticeable but are not overly bright.
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