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Increase The Value of Your Home 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?
If you are looking for
a Maryland House painting company,
please call us today at 301-589-3930 or 888-549-0929 or complete
our
online request form.
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