Choosing Colors For Your Home
By P. Roe, Home Site
What do you want from your home? To keep it
in good condition to sell? To be comfortable and
happy, and feel good looking at it? To impress
your friends and others?
Once you figure out who you want to satisfy, you
can start to choose how to decorate and build up
your home to achieve your goals.
If you want to just be happy with your own family,
loving the home you are in, and plan to stay in it
for awhile, choose colors you like and that make
everyone happy. In darker rooms, paint or
wallpaper in light colors. In bright rooms, you can
choose slightly darker colors. It's not a good idea to
use very dark colors unless you have a theme room
that utilizes a dark color. It's annoying to most
people, and it's harder to paint over with lighter
colors which will need to be done if you decide
to sell the house or move. One house here had
purple walls it took 3 years to sell!
If you are looking to sell, paint the rooms in white
or a light off-white. This will make the rooms look
bigger and clean. It will also be easy for someone
to paint over in colors they like, or to wallpaper
over.
To impress others, you might choose white or a
combination of wallpaper or trim that gives a
"home" type feel. Put your personality into the
dιcor. Make the colors blend in with the
furniture and appliances. If things look in place,
people coming into the house will appreciate it.
You can use colors to strategically "hide"
imperfections or features you don't want to be
noticed or "out there." These can include pipes,
conduits, gutters, etc.
For outside gauge your colors from the roof
and brick the parts that are stable. Brick is not
something you can change color of but you can
change wood, so figure out what colors are set.
If your roof is black, you might want a light color
to complement it, and not have a totally dark
looking home. If it's brown colors are more
flexible.
Figure out the trim and doors you might want to
have a slightly contrasting but complementary
color for the trim. Make sure your front door is the
focal point in color that is what people will
naturally "see" the most. Complement the trim to
play this up. For the garage door blend it in to
the main color of the home no one wants to look
at a garage door that really stands out.
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