we just moved into our new house and painted every room white - looks great! I think colors and neutrals can be dated. White looks fresh. We used BM dove white - eggshell on walls and gloss on trim.

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Anonymous wrote:We are hiring an inexpensive painter to paint the interior of our home. He recommended that we keep our walls white. We are selling our home. His price is so low that we are starting to wonder how professional his job will look. Is it really possible for a painter to screw up a white paint job (other than being messy and splattering paint on things, of course)?

I really would NOT put your house on the market with your entire interior painted white. It's NOT going to show well. If you are going to all the trouble to paint your house, why wouldn't you pick nice neutral colors to make it attractive to potential buyers????? I'm guessing this guy has a ton of white paint left over from another job that he is trying to get rid of.

The painter probably has gallons and galoons 9f white paint so he's doing the work for cheap and trying to convince OP he/she should paint everything white to drum up more business.

Anonymous wrote:We are hiring an inexpensive painter to paint the interior of our home. He recommended that we keep our walls white. We are selling our home. His price is so low that we are starting to wonder how professional his job will look. Is it really possible for a painter to screw up a white paint job (other than being messy and splattering paint on things, of course)?

I really would NOT put your house on the market with your entire interior painted white. It's NOT going to show well. If you are going to all the trouble to paint your house, why wouldn't you pick nice neutral colors to make it attractive to potential buyers????? I'm guessing this guy has a ton of white paint left over from another job that he is trying to get rid of.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a real estate agent can chime in...but when I was looking at houses, the ones with a non-white neutral, with white trim, always looked better. (except the bathroom, most bathrooms looked good in white).

I really like SW Kilm Beige.

I agree with this.

Regarding a stager, my issue with paying a stager for paint selections for sale is that your goal is quite literally the opposite of choosing something unique and tasteful; it is to choose something extremely popular and non-controversial. Go to a paint store and ask to see some neturals. As the employee what they have been selling a lot of from the neutral card. Punch the card number into their little computer and it will show you the best white for the trim. This is cheaper and simpler than using a stager, and more likely to produce the right answer, because the right answer on what color to paint your walls for resale purposes only is "the most popular neutral color of the moment, and a matching white trim."

I think you misunderstand what a home stager does. A stager is not a decorator. A stager provides recommendations on maximizing the appeal of a home to your target buyers, whoever they are (e.g., young urban professional, middle-aged suburban couple with kids, ...). They provide recommendations and/or assistance in decluttering, cleaning, neutralizing, and ultimately 'staging' the home for sale. It's a lot more than just picking a paint color and, even then, it will be something neutral.

Also, it's important to recognize that paint colors can look completely different in your home, depending on the lighting conditions and the surrounding environment (e.g., kitchen cabinets, countertops, etc.). For example, I had to pick paint colors for a home we rent out. Professional painters are expensive and I wanted to get it right. I asked for neutral recommendations from the color consultant at the local Benjamin Moore. The colors looked great, until I painted samples on the livingroom wall, where they looked hideous in the bright light from the huge picture window. Several tries later, I found exactly the right paint for that room and most of the house. The kitchen had its own issues. The maple cabinets had a pink undertone which made picking a color a bit more of a challenge. Ultimately, I found just the right color. Between the paint and the light 'staging' I did for the home, we wound up renting the place for hundreds more per month than any of the real estate agents thought that we could - with multiple offers.

I don't mean to complicate things, but sometimes things can be more complicated than they first appear.

Anonymous wrote:What is haint blue?

I don't know, but I want one!

Anonymous wrote:What is haint blue?

yep I wondered too. And I don't think they meant "paint blue" because blue isn't a very popular wall color

What is haint blue?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a real estate agent can chime in...but when I was looking at houses, the ones with a non-white neutral, with white trim, always looked better. (except the bathroom, most bathrooms looked good in white).

I really like SW Kilm Beige.

I agree with this.

Regarding a stager, my issue with paying a stager for paint selections for sale is that your goal is quite literally the opposite of choosing something unique and tasteful; it is to choose something extremely popular and non-controversial. Go to a paint store and ask to see some neturals. As the employee what they have been selling a lot of from the neutral card. Punch the card number into their little computer and it will show you the best white for the trim. This is cheaper and simpler than using a stager, and more likely to produce the right answer, because the right answer on what color to paint your walls for resale purposes only is "the most popular neutral color of the moment, and a matching white trim."

This is so true. Our paint store guy told me what EVERYONE buys for their haint blue. It was perfect.