Often the things that make a house a home are the very things that will cost you plenty when it's time to sell. This is particularly true when it come to color choices. In our continuing series on home staging, we offer our tips on paints, finishes, and color choices. Check it out!Video Transcript
well good morning friends hello brandon diane bro here your prescott pickle team we are indeed i am the prescott pickle lady um when you come in you’ll see why i’ll bring you some of my cajun pickles they are fabulous yeah the pickle lady often wears uh green but not during our wine downs i can’t can’t wear green i love green i know green is my lucky color i have green eyes they get really green when i wear green i have my lucky green jade earrings i’m all about green all about green well we’re here now let’s talk about color so we’re doing staging tips for our sellers out there uh as i said in a previous wine down uh professional staging isn’t that big of a deal and prescott not a lot that go not a lot of that going on uh yourself we trust you guys yeah no that’s the way it’s good it’s done by the sellers and done by the agents it’s not done by professionals but just because it’s not done by professionals does not mean it’s not important it’s violated and it’s vitally important and it’s very necessary now and one of the important factors in staging your home is color color color color we’re going to talk about some colors some things that you need to keep in mind about colors in a home right uh one of them so if one of the i think we’ve talked about this before if you’ve got weird colors yeah you need to paint yes if you’ve got like yeah uh bright aqua yeah yeah peach peach is so dated yeah peaches love is so dated yeah um seafoam green is so dated and a lot of the painting techniques are dated the faux finishes and stuff like that a lot of that is really kind of passe people really get turned off when they see it it’s kind of like popcorn ceilings you just can’t sell anything with a popcorn ceiling now there are certain colors where that is the case um i would i would i always tell people avoid just white uh it’s too strong it’s too stark people go to white because they think it is uh safe right um but it can be too bright and too jarring yeah particularly if you don’t have a lot of too sterile too sterile particularly if you’re not gonna have a lot of pictures on the wall yeah if you just show a home that’s empty with white walls it really cheapens it quite a bit so be careful like when we say hey these peach walls you really should paint go with a nice neutral gray or a nice neutral soft white or soft cream yeah or like a taupe very soft completely neutral nothing jarring nothing startling nothing um for instance we had a house in baton rouge way back in the day and our daughter’s playroom we we did this whole all four walls were beach scenes and sea creatures and murals and we had a great time we also did it in texas in their house too um but as soon as we went on the market nobody had to tell us we immediately covered it up and painted and did all it was kind of sad yeah we did take some movies of it and some pictures so the kids could look back and realize what amazing talented parents they had yeah because we need to you know constantly put that in front of that like send them the evidence yeah not many parents paint their walls like this for their kids yeah but your parents did yeah you had a blue a killer whale yeah we had a killer yeah yeah and jellyfish and we allowed that to happen but anyway that’s just a shout out to the kids and all you parents out there who did the same thing you know you know what we’re talking about kids rooms are always suspect so if you’re yes if your daughter just loved hot pink and her whole room is hot pink including the trim you’re gonna have to paint that absolutely you know uh little boys like uh you know crazy dark colors sometimes black walls yeah they’ll be terrible get rid of that space scene or whatever and or whatever it is uh crazy purples we’ve seen some crazy purples it’s got to go yellow it’s got to go don’t push the envelope with colors if you have something that’s pushing an envelope you really should paint them and you know it may cost you maybe a thousand dollars to repaint all that yeah it’s worth it you will reap that in in the price of your home you will regain all of that and more and again if you leave it and it remains in place your house will probably sit on the market yeah and the longer it sits on the market you’re going to have to drop the price drop the price so that little bit of investment ahead of time will actually get you more money even if it doesn’t so so i’ve told the horror story before there was a home beautiful home uh the walls were a mint green that’s not that offensive no not about uh but everyone took in it was like this doesn’t match any of my stuff uh in the end long story short i think that color ended up costing them at least fifty thousand dollars they had to keep it was they ended up having it anyway yeah they should have painted it in the beginning and you’d be done and they would have been done right away and they would have gotten more money for the home it’s not just oh i can’t sell my home so i have to lower the price right if you have two people who are interested in your home then they compete with one another on price you get more money if your weird color only makes one go away it’s going to cost you money even if the home sells right away it can still cost you money that’s right and the other thing is people people were like well they can paint it themselves and they can pick whatever they want people just don’t have the imagination the vision and also they think to themselves i want to be move-in ready i don’t i don’t want to come in and have to hire painters have to find a painter i want to be able to move right in and unpack my stuff hang my stuff on the walls if they have to wait for a painter and it might take two or three weeks to get the whole house painted it’s a turn off they may walk away from a perfectly great house just because they’re not interested or they find one that they don’t have to do that and that’s a deciding factor right yeah so i know when we moved in our home i painted it from top to bottom and it was about a three week process because i had a small team yes and um so yeah if you want to live with your painter and get to be really good friends yeah you know and that’s okay um but it’s you’re really better off just doing a a minimal touch-up painting yeah and and adjusting the color it will save you a lot of time and money in the long run time on market and more money absolutely absolutely so another another seller tip if you’re looking for seller tips or just information about real estate or just prescott in general whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between go to pickle411.com correct that is our information center everything there is free and highly highly entertaining and insightful it can be it’s very insightful too and anyway if you’re making uh thank thinking of making a trip to prescott give us a call we’d love to show you around our great town and show you some interesting properties some good places absolutely all right take care and have a good day bye
