While we’re on the subject of dated, the lately I’ve consulted on several homes with the planter/room dividers popular decades ago. Everyone wants to know what to do with them . You just can’t leave them because they are always in such a prominent location, usually right by the front door. My answer—cover the top with tile. At my suggestion, one of my homesellers did that recently and it looked great. It turned what was obviously a detriment into a real feature—the house sold within a couple weeks.
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If you still ignore my advice and use a lot of color, and you use different colors in spaces where you can see all the colors at one time, you can still make a sale a bit easier if you choose colors that are related. So instead of using yellow in the kitchen, green in the living room and blue in the dining room you could use yellow in the kitchen, a gold in the dining room and a brown-gold in the living room. This way the colors are all in the same family. You’ll still lose the buyers who don’t like the colors in that part of the color wheel but you might not lose the others. I’m really trying here, guys. Yesterday, I conducted a Fridley Community Education program on staging and two women wanted to know what I thought of wood paneling. They both said their husbands loved the paneling and thought that men coming in to buy their home would feel the same. Wrong! Young men are no more likely to likely old paneling than they are to like their dad’s seersucker suits or white dress shoes. Dated is dated. Unfortunately for homesellers with paneling that means it’s got to go or be painted —especially if it is on the main floor where buyers most often make their home-buying decision. FYI—as a general rule, you should use a neutral color when painting paneling and the other walls in the space should be the same color as well. |
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