My Dallas Painting

It's easy, fast and cheap, but do not make the mistake that it can cure each houses problems. To do it right when selling you must follow some essential guidelines of using paint as part of your house selling to-do list. Mark Nash writer of 1001 Tips for Purchasing and Selling a Home shares some tried and true tips on how to get the most mileage out of repainting a room or a whole house.

-To make the living space of a home appear larger or flow less complicated use the same color or colours of an identical color in adjoining rooms. The key is to keep the eye moving. Lately a home seller had painted each room on the 1st floor a different bold trend color, it shrunk the home visually and made it much darker. A new tone-on-tone color scheme I suggested expanded and lightened the house, and it sold shortly after the redo.

Buyers get always imagine their wall color choice with white trim and they like that they won't have to repaint the trim.

-To expand room height paint the ceiling a different but light color than the walls. A decorator tip that actually works is to add some blue tint to your white ceiling color.

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

-For a quality painting, preparation is critical. Walls and trim should be sanded, spackled and cleaned, for paint to stick properly.

Prime everything once to even existing surface colors out before using finish colors. Gloss finishes show wall defects more than flat finishes, use sparingly.

The small cost difference isn't worth the gamble.

-Bring paint samples home from home improvement stores to accurately match with carpets and fabrics. Paint manufactures now offer sample sizes, do a wall test of any color your thinking of using. Colors look different in different lighting and times of day.

Buyers will think it will take extra time and expense to remove and change them.

-Do take the time to put down drop clothes, tape trim and window mullions, remove switch plates and curtain hardware.

-Think twice before have a bath tub or ceramic tile repainted or finished. To get a good new finish on these surfaces is tough and buyers run from bubbled bathtub make over's.

-If you're not the best painter or time-starved to do the job right, hire a professional to come in and paint. You can focus on other roles to be done before the selling of your home begins and it will eliminate additional stress.
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