Increasing Your Home’s Value With Paint

Increasing your home’s value is something everyone should look into. It’s easy to let things slide with our busy schedules, but spring is a great time to think about re-birth!  Don’t let your biggest investment become your biggest liability.  Whether you are planning to sell in the near future or you just want to update your look and protect your home, here are some thoughts to get you started…

Adding Value

Interior and exterior painting projects add significant ROI (return-on-investment) whether you are selling or nesting in your home. On average nationally, interior painting adds 107% and exterior painting adds 55%.  The raw numbers may not be impressive at first glance, but depending on the current value of your home, that adds up to thousands of dollars AND a lot of satisfaction in your home. 

Besides adding value, it protects your home.  Professional painters, like ColaTown Painting, will inspect your home for holes and nicks in your drywall or rotting and damaged wood on your exterior.  Repairs will be taken care of before paint is applied – No worries!

Choose the Right Colors

Exterior Choices

Choosing the right paint colors plays a large part in the value-added arena.  For your exterior colors- think neutrals.  White, beige, taupe, gray or greige are very appealing because they create the freedom of a blank canvas and there are a wide variety of choices within each color group.  Neutrals leave plenty of room for personal touches and color pops.  Choose a stand-out door color or jewel-colored plant pots and accessories.  Add even more color variety with blooming flowers in your favorite hues!

Of course, paint colors are always an individual choice and should reflect the homeowner’s personality.  If you are planning on staying in your home – go bold and bright if that is you!  Just remember, if and when it becomes time to sell you may need to re-evaluate color schemes to appeal to buyers.

 

Interior Choices

The choices that add the most value in the interior of your home are cool colors (blues, greens and purples) that make you feel calm, cool and refreshed.  Neutrals are also desirable because they are flexible with just about any color scheme in the room, such a furniture, pillows and artwork.  Another option is to see what colors are trending.  The major paint companies have published their 2024 Color Collection of the Year.  Check those out for inspirations.

Regardless of the colors you choose for your home make sure the colors flow from room to room for the best visual impact.  It is best to stick with complementary colors and don’t choose more than 2 or 3 different colors.  Any more and your home could seem cluttered and disjointed.

Time To Paint

Increasing your home’s value with paint  is decision one!  After you have made the choice to do interior and exterior, plan to do it all at once.  Professional painters may take 1-3 weeks depending on the scope of the job and the weather conditions.  Also, if you combine the two projects you will end up spending less money if you book both jobs at once.

Remember…

• Develop a plan for your time frame and color schemes
• Choose colors
• Buy samples to test out your choices
• Execute your plan by calling professional painters or begin your DIY project         

If we can help, contact your local professionals at ColaTown Painting? for a free, in-home estimate call Britt- 803-603-6486 – our trusted team provides interior and exterior painting services that can transform your home and help you get it done right!  Give your home the high-quality paint job it deserves!     

  803-603-6486 or ellisb@colatownpainting.com

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