Bumping the thread. We are closing on a house this Friday and we want to re-paint the rooms. Any pointers or colors to avoid?

To add to the thread I hate "tray ceilings" so naturally, three of the rooms have these ceilings.

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Bumping the thread. We are closing on a house this Friday and we want to re-paint the rooms. Any pointers or colors to avoid?

To add to the thread I hate "tray ceilings" so naturally, three of the rooms have these ceilings.

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Painting is the easiest fix and seems to be the most common thing that buyers can look past.
With that said, paint a color that YOU like.

Agree. Paint it how you want it. I'm assuming you aren't going to sell in the next year or two.

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Bumping the thread. We are closing on a house this Friday and we want to re-paint the rooms. Any pointers or colors to avoid?

To add to the thread I hate "tray ceilings" so naturally, three of the rooms have these ceilings.

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Painting is the easiest fix and seems to be the most common thing that buyers can look past.
With that said, paint a color that YOU like.

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This.

Also, just remember that lighter colors tend to make rooms feel a bit less cramped than dark ones.

Piling on because I don't feel like working...

Our house was built in '88. The kitchen is not open to the living/family room. I like that. I have a hard time keeping up the the family's dishes/crap and I don't want visitors to see it if I can avoid it.

When we build our retirement home in the Hill Country, I have a fantasy of what I call "not so open concept"

I love the idea of no formal dining room but a big farmhouse table that seats 10. And I want the dining table right in the kitchen area and a double-sided fireplace that separates that area from the living area. I was so happy to find this picture on Houzz.

<div><a href='http://www.houzz.com/photos/60498611/Transitional-Farmhouse-farmhouse-dining-room-austin' target='_blank'><img src='' alt='Transitional Farmhouse' border=0 width='320' height='214' nopin='nopin' /></a></div><div style='color:#444;'><small><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#444;" href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/vanguard/vanguard-studio-inc" target="_blank">Photo by Vanguard Studio Inc.</a> - <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#444;" href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/farmhouse/dining" target="_blank">Search farmhouse dining room design ideas</a></small></div>

Love that! I'll be doing something very similar w my dream home.

I saw a model home that had a double sided fireplace between the main living area and the outside patio. It had a glass slider in the middle of fireplace that could close off the outside when not in use. Pretty sweet.

Our neighbor's home has a double sided fp between living area and dining room, with kitchen open to living room. Layout is L shape: kitchen - breakfast table area - living room, then 90degrees to the dining with fp in between. (photographer is standing in breakfast table location, with kitchen behind him.)

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". . . Old buildings are not ours. They belong, partly to those who built them, and partly to the generations of mankind who are to follow us. The dead still have their right in them: That which they labored for . . . we have no right to obliterate." "What we ourselves have built, we are at liberty to throw down. But what other men gave their strength, and wealth, and life to accomplish, their right over it does not pass away with their death . . ."

I like this quote from the old house guy link. It's pretty much how I approach all remodel work on my home(s). It's why I don't paint exposed brick and try to pick materials and finishes hat would've been used when my home was built while taking advantage of advances in technology.

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I love this quote. My father in law's house was built in 1831 and we've had this discussion. His home is also part of the community. Other owner's opened it up for holidays and such, so people remember it.

I'd love to have the money to restore it - but only the right way. We think the wall paper in the entry way and staircase is original. Very fragile.

The lighting fixtures are very interesting - some seem to be gas lights that were turned into electric.


It's a fascinating house.