It’s straightforward, fast and cheap, but do not make the error that it can cure each houses troubles. To do it properly when selling you must follow some essential rules of using paint as a part of your house selling to-do list. Mark Nash writer of 1001 Tips for Purchasing and Selling a Home shares some tried and true tips on how to get the most mileage out of repainting a room or a whole house.

-To make the living space of a home appear larger or flow more easily use an identical color or colors of the same color in adjoining rooms. The key is to keep the eye moving. Recently a home seller had painted each room on the 1st floor a different bold trend color, it shrunk the home visually and made it much darker. A new tone-on-tone color range I suggested expanded and lightened the house, and it sold soon after the redo.

-Use eggshell paint on the walls and semi-gloss on woodwork and trim. White is a fail-safe trim color. Buyers get always imagine their wall color choice with white trim and they like that they won’t have to repaint the trim.

-To expand room height paint the ceiling a different but light color than the walls. A decorator tip that actually works is to add some blue tint to your white ceiling color.

-Don’t paint laminate kitchen cabinets, the paint peels and wears easily and is like a fast fix.

-For a quality paint job, preparation is important. Walls and trim should be sanded, spackled and cleaned, for paint to adhere properly.

-Light paint colours need 2 coats, darker colours 3 or four. Prime everything once to even existing surface colors out before using finish colours. Gloss finishes show wall imperfections more than flat finishes, use sparingly.

-Use quality paints. It might not seem sensible to buy better paint if you won’t enjoy it, but inexpensive paints can actually devalue a paint job and the home. The tiny cost difference isn’t worth the gamble.

-Bring paint samples home from home improvement stores to accurately match with carpets and fabrics. Paint manufactures now offer sample sizes, do a wall test of any color your thinking about using. Colors look different in different lighting and times of day.

-Don’t be tempted to use faux finishes, leafing or glazes. They’re trendy and highly specific in taste. Buyers will think it’ll take additional expense and time and expense to remove and change them.

-Do take the effort to put down drop garments, tape trim and window mullions, remove switch plates and curtain hardware. Paint drips and stains lack attention of detail to home buyers.

-Think twice before have a bath tub or ceramic tile repainted or finished. To get a good new finish on these surfaces is tough and buyers run from bubbled bathtub make over’s.

-If you are not the best painter or time-starved to do the job right, hire a professional to come in and paint. You can target other roles to be done before the selling of your home starts and it will eliminate additional stress.

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