The colors on the walls of your Locust Grove house are important when it comes time to sell it.  As potential buyers tour your home, you want them to be able to envision their own furniture and decorations inside of the space.  This can be hard for many buyers to do if the walls of your home are brightly painted, and can cause them to say no to your Locust Grove house.  

Luckily, there is an easy solution for this-a can of paint.

I love color!  Do my walls always have to be boring?

No!  Your home is your space and you can paint the walls whatever color you want.  Just be prepared to give them a fresh coat of paint when you are ready to sell.  If you plan on living in your Locust Grove house for the long term, then pick the colors that make you happy.  However, if your plan is more short term and painting walls isn’t your thing, you may want to consider just sticking with neutral colors rather than repainting in a year or two.

I think it is also important to keep in mind that a brightly colored accent wall can look fantastic when it is surrounded by furniture and decor; however, if you move out of the home before you sell it, that wall may look a little jarring without the surrounding decorations.

Colors to Avoid

According to Fixr.com’s Colors for Home Selling in 2024 these shades on your wall are the ones mostly likely to turn buyers away from your home.

  • Red
  • Lime green
  • Bright yellow
  • Mustard yellow
  • Pink
  • Turquoise
  • Black

An additional challenge with some of these shades for home selling purposes is that they can be hard to paint over.  Deep reds require a few coats of primer and then the new shade on top.  If you try to paint just a new shade over the red, the new color will look different on the red wall and non red walls.

Colors to Use When Selling Your Locust Grove House

If you’ve got any of these colors on your walls or a look around the rooms in your home shows that some spaces are ready for a new coat of paint, then go neutral.  While neutral shades are not the most exciting colors, they allow buyers to picture their own belongings in the room.  Warm neutral shades can also make a room feel larger because these colors, along with white, can reflect light throughout the space.  Having two adjoining rooms painted the same neutral colors also unifies the spaces.

While for many sellers it seems simple enough for buyers just to paint the home whatever colors they want upon purchasing it, paint colors can really be a stumbling block for a lot of buyers.  The buyers can see painting as too big of a project, too expensive, or the wall colors make them uninterested in the property.  Sellers may find buyers who aren’t opposed to painting, but they need to weigh the pros and cons of how long waiting for these specific buyers is worth maintaining the home while on the market.  Every seller is in a different set of circumstances and will have a different answer.  For sellers not wanting to wait, presenting the walls of your Locust Grove house as a blank canvas is the best way to appeal to as many buyers as possible.