Selling Your Home This Winter? Paint

This time of the year we all are thinking of the holidays and as it gets darker sooner and the sun is not shining through the windows as vibrantly as before. Therefore sellers need to find a way to make their home show in it's best light. One good way to do that is to put a fresh coat of paint on the walls.

I have sold many homes where prior to painting the inside of the house the home felt dark, gloomy and cramped. After a fresh coat of paint on the walls the home felt bright, airy and cheerful when someone walked in. Fresh paint can serve a multiude of positive effects when it comes to selling a home.

First, you can touch up old holes on the walls from paintings and pictures. It gives you the opportunity to correct any defects that will show on the walls.

Second, by using bright neutral color tones you can accent the space of the house. If you currently have dark colors, or you had painted years ago. Try painting a wall and look at the difference it makes in terms fo the perception of space in the room.

Third, when a perspective buyer is lookign at a house; you want them to have a visual blank canvas to work with. This allows them to envison what the hosue will look like if they paint it this color or that color or add certain accessories to a room. The more neutral the room is the better it will be for the buyer to perceive it in the way they will eventually want the house.

Fourth, a fresh coat of paint on the walls can accent and showcase any trim and molding you have in the house. Sometimes it can go unnoticed to a buyer as they are trying to figure out how to cover the walls in the home. This is the perfect opportunity to showcase the attributes of the house that will help it sell.

Last, it can enhance the value of a house to a prospective buyer. I recently had a client paint the interior of the house. Prior to painting the interior the offers we received were substantially low. The reason was the house "needed work". When in reality it needed a fresh paint job inside the house to showcase the hand crafted wood work inside the house and brighten it up. The fresh coat helped offset some of the other deficiencies in the house and allowed us achieve a selling price that was inline for what the house was worth.

So, as we enter the winter months and you are trying to sell your home invest in some paint. A little paint could be the difference between yoru home selling this winter and still being on the market come spring.....

Dave diCecco
Realtor/Broker
www.davedicecco.com