PAINT BEFORE SELLING!
One of the first item many homeowners have to consider before placing their home on the market is painting the home and preparing to sell. This is a process that intimidates many homeowners so much so that they are reluctant to pain, and want to offer the buyers money instead or take a price reduction. The problem in this market? many home buyers do not want to paint either. They want a "Turn Key home" in move in condition. Could you blame them?
Well choosing a color used to be a difficult item. You would buy a small test can of paint at the local paint store and try it out on several sections of wall space in your home and try to visualize the right color. That was certainly a better way to do it than holding up a 2" square paint chip and trying to visualize what the entire room would look like! Enter the online answer to the age old dilemma. Sherwin Williams, a well respected paint company has an online visualizer.
With the online visualizer, you can either choose samples of the rooms you are considering painting, an either apply color schemes or click and drag them into place. You can make the room colors lighter or darker, and apply different of complimentary trim colors. This works for both inside the home and outside exterior colors. You can also take this one step further. If you have a photo of the room you are considering painting, you can also upload that and make a decision online. It has never been easier to accomplish the task without even picking up a paint brush! There are others out there, but this is the best one I've come across. Lowe's has one for Valspar paint also.
Sherwin Williams on Line Visualizer - Click Here!
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Wow! Thanks Jim! My Brother and I inherited a home in the Florida Keys and are going to be making it "turn key" before putting it on the market. He lives in Chicago and I'm in San Diego! This will really be helpful!
Jim,
Nice stuff from Sherwin Williams. I have an app for my iPhone from them. Take a picture of a color and it gives you the Sherwin Williams paint name and complimentary colors. Smart marketing.
Rich
Great link to forward to clients! Plus it's just fun to play with.....Thanks for the great information!
Jim - I'm trying to decide on a paint color for my own home. i'm going to check out this site.
Tiffany Torgan~San Diego Real Estate (ReloSanDiego.Com) I thought this was one of the best I've come across. I sale a free software a few years ago, but this is all online. I like it a lot.
Richard Iarossi, Crofton MD Real Estate, Annapolis MD Real Estate (Long and Foster® Real Estate, Inc.) I Agree, I thought this was incredible.
Sherry Scales, ABR,GRI,REALTOR (RE/MAX Austin Skyline) You are more than welcome.
Pam Dent - REALTOR Charlottesville Virginia Homes and Horse Farms (Real Estate III) Pam, I think this will be a big help!
Jim, what will they think of next? And I think this is a fabulous idea.
Jim this is really great! I am very good at many aspects of our business but picking colors is not a strength. I am bookmarking this post to send to future sellers as a help in deciding! Thanks!
Patricia Kennedy (Evers & Company Realtors) This is incredible. I was looking for something for myself and found it!
Russell Lewis, Broker,CLHMS,GRI (AvenueOne Properties, Austin Texas Real Estate) I am going to link it from many of the pages in my website.
Hi Jim...Painting gets very positiveresults, you are correct Buyers do not want to decorate when they move in, they will look for a home that needs nothing done...Curb appeal is as important as pricing.
Hi Jim, a house painted every color is hard to sell and doesn't appeal to most home buyers. I have one sitting vacant and thought about having it painted to help it sell.
Kay Van Kampen, CDPE, Broker, Springfield Missouri Real Estate (RE/MAX Solutions) I think the best colors we've seen to sell a home are the taupe colors - neutral tones. This tool is a great tool to allow a seller to quickly visualize the results!
Jim do they have a painter online that will paint my house. I hate painting.
I heard that for every $1 spent on paint, sellers get a $5 return.
What a great tool Jim! I didn't know one of that kind existed. This will come in handy when I decide to do some remodeling this year!
John Walters (Licensed in Slidell, Louisiana) (Slidell, Pearl River, Lacombe) I like that even better!
Charles Stallions Real Estate 800-309-3414 Pensacola, Fl. Charles, I could believe that!
Jennifer K Giraldi, Atlanta REALTOR® Atlanta Real Estate Expert (Solid Source Realty Atlanta) I just found it myself. I think it is incredible. I saw some software like this a few years ago, and I do not like loading software on my PC... This is a better alternative.
Jim - What a great idea, and this should really help people with their decisions on what color to paint their homes. I will bookmark and save for future reference.
Troy Erickson - Your Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek Realtor (Terra Solis Realty, LLC) I may place some links to this on my websites.
Wonderful presentation! Good luck with sales.
Jim - This is great information. I will be sure to think of this post when giving recommendations to my sellers, or when I am trying to figure out what color to paint my own house. Thanks