Increase The Price of Your House With Painting
 Bob
Vila of This Old House fame tells people to “…be kind to their neighbors when
picking a color scheme.” His house painting advice is echoed by realtors and
builders across the country. The color that you paint your house, they say, can
affect the value of all the other houses in your neighborhood. That’s one of the
reasons that many homeowner associations limit house painting color choices for
homes in their communities.
While you might feel that
house
painting is a personal choice, there’s a good deal of sense to the painting
restrictions that some homeowners face. A garish purple house with Halloween
orange shutters on the block can effectively make it almost impossible for
anyone else in the neighborhood to get full value for their home if they choose
to sell. A cohesive house painting color scheme that’s carried on from property
to property adds enormously to the appeal of a neighborhood.
In some cases, the house painting restrictions are based on more than just owner
preference. On the West Side of one New England town, for instance, is a
neighborhood of historic period houses all built in a similar Edwardian style.
Owners who purchase houses in the Tatnuck community usually sign an agreement
upon purchase that they will maintain a white or gray exterior with shutters in
black, green or red – and that they will only use white Christmas lights at the
holidays.
So what colors are good choices for exterior house painting?
According to Realty Time magazine, the choices are, in order, white, gray,
blue, tan or brown, cream, beige, green, yellow and red. Of those, the
overwhelmingly most popular house painting color is white, with over 37 percent
of all homeowners stating that if they were repainting a house, they would
choose white. While gray is the second most popular color, most realtors would
recommend painting your house a pale shade if that’s your choice. The reason?
Lighter colors brighten a house and make it seem more spacious.
Among the other colors, the favored shades tend to be muted tones, often in
‘historical’ themes. House paint manufacturers like Benjamin Moore and Sherwin
Williams often name their paint colors to cater to that trend. Thousands of
houses across the country are painted Williamsburg blue or Colonial green.
If you do want brighter accents in your exterior house painting scheme, advise
Realtors, confine yourself to the front door and shutters. A front door that’s
painted a friendly blue or warm red, they say, puts buyers in a good mood as
they enter your house. And who’d know better than the guys that sell houses?
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the
worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web. Visit this Home
Improvement Website and Majon's Home Improvement directory.
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