When to paint – Re/Max Beaumont

Should you paint?
There are many factors involved in marketing and selling your home. You can't control most of them. The curb appeal of your home plays a big role in the sales process, and it's one of the things you can have direct control over. You'll never get another chance to make a first impression of how your home looks from the street. If your home exterior needs new paint, potential buyers might not even get out of their car to come in and look. Putting fresh paint on your home, both on the outside and the inside, is usually the one thing you can do that pays off the fastest. You'll get more buyers looking, and they'll like what they see more, translating into a better chance for a quick offer at a higher price.

Try to stick with light, neutral colors. These seem to resonate best with buyers. A fresh coat of light beige on interior walls will freshen up your home and make it more marketable.

Simply put, new paint is usually the most profitable improvement you can make when getting your home ready for sale. So unless your paint is already in like new condition, you probably should paint.

House Painting:

Colors, colors everywhere (The Fayetteville Observer)

7/4/2009 11:16 PM

Painting is one of the simplest things you can do to reinvigorate a room. But choosing a color can be a daunting, stressful task. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of paint-chip cards blanket hardware stores, making a decision seem like an extraordinary test...Read More

Owens-Thomas House continues to refine its style (Savannah Morning News)

7/4/2009 5:03 PM

The Owens-Thomas House is reshuffling some of its designations and displays, a reinterpretation that has brought card tables into the drawing room and some recently reacquired furniture into the family dining room...Read More

Capturing moments in light and shadow (Telluride Daily Planet)

7/5/2009 10:19 AM

She stood in the middle of main street on Tuesday morning, cocking her head and pondering her palette of colors...Read More

The show must go on (Standard-Examiner)

7/5/2009 1:14 AM

Peery's Egyptian Theater rose from the ashes in 1924; hosted 3-D film aliens in 1953; got a Pepto-pink paint makeover in the 1960s; was left for dead in the '80s; and was breathed back to life by a group of determined Ogdenites in the '90s.On Saturday, the grand old theater has earned a Grand Celebration for its 85th birthday. The party -- to be sh...Read More

Kids' rooms: how to design one with staying power (Chicago Tribune)

7/5/2009 7:36 AM

These designer tips make it easier than you think Dora the Explorer can undergo all the makeovers she wants—that Dora comforter is still getting chucked faster than last year's gym shoes when Hannah Montana comes calling...Read More

Mary Henry, 96, Northwest painter (Seattle Times)

7/5/2009 2:14 AM

Mary Dill Henry, one of the Northwest's most accomplished painters, died in May in Coupeville on Whidbey Island...Read More

New Decor Trend: Exotic Elements Provide a Tropical Retreat at Home (Carteret County News-Times)

7/5/2009 1:17 AM

(ARA) - Dreaming of traveling to your favorite tropical destination? Are you, like many, skipping your vacation due to the current economic recession? Don't worry...Read More

Excerpt from “Return to Sullivans Island,” by Dorothea Benton Frank (The Charlotte Observer)

7/4/2009 2:22 PM

Great, grown-up ideas for 're-feathering' your empty nest (Lexington Clipper-Herald)

7/5/2009 1:23 AM

(ARA) - You're proud that he made it through four years of college. You couldn't be more thrilled that she landed her dream job, even if it's in a city 1,000 miles from home...Read More

The technology that makes your home's walls more durable (Carteret County News-Times)

7/5/2009 1:21 AM

(ARA) - With an $8,000 federal tax credit available for first-time homebuyers and tax incentives on the table for home improvement projects, you may be thinking this is the right time to build or renovate a home...Read More