Painting your home, does it really matter? When meeting a client for a staging consultation, they may not be open to the idea of painting their interior walls. They start to think about the cost and the inconvenience of moving furniture around. Their mind set is that the buyers can change the colors once they move in, just as they had. But we all know that buyers can’t see past what’s in front of them. If they did, stagers would be out of a job.
Some homes need painting because the wallpaper is outdated, or the color is too bold. Others, the color may be good but the walls are in such bad shape with bangs, scratches, or peeling, that the whole house looks neglected.
So how do you get the home owners to be more receptive to your color suggestion? Timing! Don’t come at them with paint color suggestion. They may not listen. Instead go through the house first, making recommendation on furniture placements, de cluttering, removing items and suggesting accessories. Make your clients feel comfortable with the process. Compliment them on a wonderful job they have done to their home. Once you see they are more comfortable with the process, then you can begin by explaining to them that their home should now be treated as a commodity. And as such, these colors may not work. Buyers will not see the beauty of their home. They will be thinking about the cost of painting your home or worse yet thinking they could never live here.
Color has a great impact on people. And when you’re putting your home on the real estate market, you want to create an environment that buyers can fall in love with. Painting your home is one of the cheapest and most effective way to change the look of any room. It can transform a room, enhance architectural details and camouflage defects in the walls. If potential buyer are too distract by the colors on the wall ,they won’t fall in love. And you could lose a buyer. It may sound so simple but it’s true. So its in their best interest to take your advice and paint your home because it does really matter.
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Carmela, I agree with you, I think paint makes a big difference. When we put our home on the market two years ago, our living room and kitchen walls were an off-white and our trim was white. These two rooms looks so washed out in the photos on MLS. We painted an accent wall in the living room "mocha" and painted the entire kitchen "peanut."
My wife spent two days doing this (I was working) and maybe $75.00. Our Realtor® retook photos of that room, and we started having more showings, and sold our home a month later! We then were able to move to where we wanted to live and I went into Real Estate.