The Best Selling Paint Colours For Your Home

When it comes to exterior paint colours, it's important to strike a balance between standing out and fitting in

. The first step in choosing an exterior paint colour is looking at the neighbours' homes. If your house is in a beige neighbourhood, pink and green will likely make your house stand out for all the wrong reasons. In contrast, a beige house in a colourful community is going to look drab and dull. Play off the local colour schemes and factor in roof colour, landscaping and other coloured features that can't easily be changed. When in doubt, neutral colours are usually a safe bet and tend to look good on any house.

Once you get inside, the colour scheme can be drastically different. Each room has a traditional set of colours that will create maximum impact and help your property sell. Just like exterior colours, interior colours need to factor in existing features that aren't easily modified like counter-tops and fireplaces. Beyond that, each room should remain neutral (but not white!).

The living room is a relaxing space and needs to feel warm. This room has a high chance of being modified by the future occupant and should remain impersonal during the selling process. For this reason, living rooms tend to benefit from beiges and yellows.

Bedrooms are more versatile rooms and work well with most mild colours, including eggshell whites, and lighter grays, blues and yellows. While bedrooms emphasize relaxation, these rooms are most-likely to be personalized and can also be left as fairly blank slates for their future occupants. Bright or dark colours in a bedroom are often a deal-breaker, so stay away from those.

Kitchens are a great place to see a colour that's bright and fun, as an inviting kitchen looks simultaneously clean and inspiring. Colours that often work are red, orange or yellow. Light or vibrant shades of these colours can make most kitchens sizzle and make us subconsciously think about food.

Bathroom colour schemes are quite dependent on the tiling and flooring. But instead of trying to match directly to your tiles, find a colour that complements them. If possible, bring a sample tile with you when looking at paint swatches and find a colour that enhances it. Stone floors, which are popular right now, tend to benefit from natural colours. With any bathroom scheme, the main colour should be light to make the space look bigger.

Overall, it's important to look at each room individually and remember that light changes throughout the day. It's good practice to tape your paint swatches to the wall you're considering and look at different times of day. A colour that is great in the morning may seem too dark in the evening. The best-selling colours work well at any time of day so take your time and, of course, have some fun with deciding.

by: Tarek Safadi

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