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13th Dec 2017

Painting the bathroom this shade can raise the value of a house

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Cathy Donohue

What colour is your bathroom?

When it comes to interior decorating, we tend to choose colour schemes because we like them but in actual fact, how you design your home can make a difference to its overall value.

A recent report curated by Zillow, a leading rental and real estate marketplace based in America, found that the use of certain colours in certain rooms had an impact on the selling price of a home.

Painting the kitchen in a soft gray blue shade resulted in “a $1,809 premium” while living-rooms in beige and taupe tones “sell for $1,926 more than expected”.

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When it comes to the bathroom, blue comes out on top, fetching $5,440 more that the asking price.

One surprising statistic which cropped up showed that bathrooms painted white sold for “an average of $4,035 below similar homes” which is a pretty big difference.

A popular opinion held by many is that redoing the bathroom in white can make a room look bigger but then, it’s argued that the lack of personality can put potential buyers off.

In addition to making it a fab place to live, upping the value of a house is another reason to redecorate and a blue haven of serenity sounds pretty ideal at 1 pm on a grey Tuesday afternoon.

Of course, Instagram and Pinterest are two sources of gorgeous home interiors and we can’t stop swooning over these model homes.

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