A Neutral Color Palette to Sell a Home

Advantages

• Warm and calming colors are the most likely hues to help to sell your house, according to Realtor.com. This can easily include a neutral color palette of yellow tans, creams or beiges. Using neutral colors can provide a blank slate, allowing potential buyers to envision what the space will look like as their own. Additionally, neutral hues provide minimal visual distractions. Unlike brights and bolds, a neutral palette allows viewers to actually see the house and not just the decor.

Basic Neutrals

• When most people think of a neutral color palette it tends to include shades of tan and variants of white. The most neutral color to try is the unobstrusive plain white. White is often seen as a blank canvas or fresh start. Basic neutrals that work with many color schemes and design accents include creams, beige or light gray. These traditionally neutral hues coordinate with most upholstery colors, wood stains and decor without providing much of a true contrast.

Other Neutrals

• Although traditional neutrals such as tan or cream are well used favorites, there are a wide variety of colors that fit into this calming palette. Adding white to just about any color will begin to make it more in the neutral style. Light mossy greens, baby blues and even white-lavenders fall into the neutral design scheme. These hues provide the warm and calming advantages of a true neutral palette, but also offer the opportunity to showcase a bit of designer flare in your home.

Accents

• Just because you are choosing a neutral color palette doesn't mean that you have to forgo all colors in your sales-forward home design scheme. Using a few well-placed colors along with a basic neutral wall and/or flooring palette can add visual interest and even spark the imagination of potential buyers. Avoid over-doing an accent color and stick with sparse bursts of a favorite hue. For example, try a burgundy throw over a couch or try rich purple pillows along with your beiges and tans.