Musings from You and Me

Painting When Selling Home

Paint is the least expensive and most effective way to improve how a home shows. Please, you do not have to paint everything eggshell colors, and white. Yes, there are colors that should be avoided, and some used sparingly. A dramatic wall may be wonderful, while that same color used through the entire room could distract from the room itself.

I love paint, it makes the house seem clean. I know that everything has to move while painting, and those nooks and crannies get exposed so, then we have to clean them. That is a good thing. It also forces us to address clutter. After packing all those things from the tabletops and shelves, do we really want to bring it all back out? (That would be a, no) All those family photos come down from the wall when painting, and we do not want to hang them back up either. You truly de-personalize the house, in order to allow potential purchasers to envision their family at home in the house.

Rules of Painting:

1. Don't remove the electric switch plates, and then roll over the plugs. Go around the hole the plate creates.

2. Don't paint the windows shut.

3. Tape the edges to get a clean line at the moldings, and ceilings.

4. Use drop cloths to keep paint splatter off floor.

5. Choose colors carefully.

6. Loosen light fixtures and ceiling fans, do not paint on the edge of them.

Paint is an easy, inexpensive, quick way to make a house pop. Create a Fine Virginia Living masterpiece in your home.

posted by FineVirginiaLiving.com @ 8:19 AM