If you haven’t painted your house in the last year, consider doing the interior now. If you have painted it, you still might want to repaint it. When planning to repaint, include everything. Paint the ceilings. Paint the trim and window casings. Paint the doors. Don’t forget to paint inside the closets. Just make sure you paint the right way. An artist creates a new painting on a plain, primed canvas. Through your efforts with painting, you’re hand-delivering your potential buyers a clean, primed canvas through which they can imagine their family in your home. Considering this, proceed with your home’s canvas using neutral colors. That doesn’t mean everything must be lifeless or stark white. That can have a negative effect as well. Instead, you want your colors to be discreet. Stick with gray, beige, tan, off-white, and white. Even if you just painted the master bath turquoise and added cute polka dot trim—change it! Remember, a blank canvas opens the imagination to endless possibilities. (Polka dots do not.)
KITCHEN AND BATH
Focus on these high-impact areas.
Dirty, grungy bathrooms and kitchens most turn buyers off. These two rooms are considered modern selling points of the home — and they are also the rooms buyers expect to be spotless. That doesn’t mean you can create stunning bathrooms and kitchens while leaving the rest of the home a mess and still expect 48
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