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Increase The Price Of
Your Jacksonville Home
Bob Vila
of This Old House fame tells people to be kind to
their neighbors when picking a color scheme. His
house painting advice is echoed by realtors and
builders across the country. The color that you
paint your house, they say, can affect the value of
all the other houses in your neighborhood. That's
one of the reasons that many homeowner associations
limit house painting color choices for homes in
their communities.
While you might feel that house painting is a
personal choice, there's a good deal of sense to the
painting restrictions that some homeowners face. A
garish purple house with Halloween orange shutters
on the block can effectively make it almost
impossible for anyone else in the neighborhood to
get full value for their home if they choose to
sell. A cohesive house painting color scheme that�s
carried on from property to property adds enormously
to the appeal of a neighborhood.
In some cases, the house painting restrictions are
based on more than just owner preference. On the
West Side of one New England town, for instance, is
a neighborhood of historic period houses all built
in a similar Edwardian style. Owners who purchase
houses in the Tatnuck community usually sign an
agreement upon purchase that they will maintain a
white or gray exterior with shutters in black, green
or red and that they will only use white Christmas
lights at the holidays.
So what colors are good choices for exterior house
painting?
According to Realty Time magazine, the choices are,
in order, white, gray, blue, tan or brown, cream,
beige, green, yellow and red. Of those, the
overwhelmingly most popular house painting color is
white, with over 37 percent of all homeowners
stating that if they were repainting a house, they
would choose white. While gray is the second most
popular color, most realtors would recommend
painting your house a pale shade if that�s your
choice. The reason? Lighter colors brighten a house
and make it seem more spacious.
Among the other colors, the favored shades tend to
be muted tones, often in �historical� themes. House
paint manufacturers like Benjamin Moore and Sherwin
Williams often name their paint colors to cater to
that trend. Thousands of houses across the country
are painted Williamsburg blue or Colonial green.
If you do want brighter accents in your exterior
house painting scheme, advise Realtors, confine
yourself to the front door and shutters. A front
door that�s painted a friendly blue or warm red,
they say, puts buyers in a good mood as they enter
your house. And who�d know better than the guys that
sell houses?
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International,
one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing
companies on the web. Visit this Home Improvement
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