Great Dallas Painting Tips for Home Sellers

It’s easy, quick and inexpensive, but do not make the error that it can cure each houses problems. To do it properly when selling you should follow some essential rules of using paint as an element of your house selling to-do list. Mark Nash author of 1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home shares some tried and tested on how to get the maximum mileage out of repainting a room or a whole house.

-To make the living space of a home appear larger or flow simpler use the same color or hues of a similar color in adjoining rooms. The key is to keep the eye moving. Not long ago a home seller had painted each room on the first floor a different bold trend color, it shrunk the home visually and made it much darker. A new tone-on-tone color range I advised 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 will not have to repaint the trim.

A decorator tip that actually works is to add some blue hint to your white ceiling color.

-Don’t paint laminate kitchen cabinets, the paint peels and wears simply and appears like a quick fix.

Walls and trim should be sanded, spackled and cleaned, for paint to adhere properly.

-Light paint colours need 2 coats, darker colors three or 4. Prime everything once to even existing surface colors out before using finish colours. Gloss finishes show wall defects more than flat finishes, use sparingly.

-Use quality paints. It would not seem sensible to buy better paint if you won’t enjoy it, but cheap paints can actually devalue a paint job and the home.

Colors look different in different lighting and times of day.

-Don’t be encouraged to use pretend finishes, leafing or glazes. They are fashionable and very specific in taste. Buyers will think it will take extra time and expense to get rid of 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.

To get a good new finish on these surfaces is difficult 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 concentrate on other jobs to be done before the selling of your home begins and it will eliminate additional stress.