Making Time for the Value of Paint

We’ve heard it said before…Time is valuable and time is money. These simple words speak volumes when it comes to selling a house and part of my job as a professional home stager is to help my clients understand that investing time and money in staging their homes to sell can potentially pay them back with a faster more profitable sale. For many of my staging clients I recommend they start the ball rolling by repainting any marked and scarred walls throughout their homes. A new coat of paint is one of the best investments a home seller can make in the marketing of their home. Freshly painted walls provide a clean cohesive back drop for staging and it’s a relatively inexpensive way to make the whole house look and smell like it’s brand new. As part of my service, Perfect Place Home Staging provides color consultations to help home sellers choose the best colors and sheen levels for “painting to sell”. Repainting (especially rooms that show noticeable wear and tear) will help your home show better than the others that are also listed in your price range. If a buyer has several homes in their price point to consider, the house that looks clean, fresh, and ready to move in is going to stand apart from all the others. Like many of us nowadays, home shoppers are busy people with all sorts of work and family obligations. The added task of finding and buying a house is stressful enough without having to worry about finding even more time in the future for things like painting. When you look at it from the buyers perspective it becomes clear that the "move in ready home" is certainly a very valuable find worth paying for. "Time is Valuable and Time is Money".

In closing I offer you this, if you plan to put your house on the real estate market, please consider taking some time to repaint. Make the project a family affair, call on friends to help, or hire a trusted painter. The bottom line is, don’t let the need for a few gallons of paint stand in the way of selling your home.