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22.06.2023 - 13:51 / bhg.com
John Bessler
If you plan to sell your house this year, it’s time to go dark. For the last decade or so, real estate experts have advised homeowners to paint their walls in a variation of white to appeal to the broadest range of buyers, but a new paint color analysis from Zillow has found that gray is what people are looking for in 2023. And not just any gray—shoppers are looking for dark, moody walls that add a feeling of coziness and comfort. Buyers are willing to pay more for gray, too: Offers for houses with gray walls in the living room or bedroom(s) averaged $1,755 more than other colors, according to Zillow’s analysis.
Gray’s appeal doesn’t end at living room or bedroom walls. In the kitchen, where white has long been far and away the most popular color for cabinets and walls, gray has become the new hot hue. (In fact, a white kitchen could even hurt a home’s sale price by more than $600. Properties with a charcoal gray kitchen can sell for an estimated $2,512 more than similar homes, and pewter gray kitchens command $2,553 more. House with kitchens in other colors are getting bids of $612 less than those in gray.
“Gray is the color of retreat,” Mehnaz Khan, a color psychology specialist and interior designer in Albany, New York, said in a statement included in Zillow’s analysis. “As we come out of the pandemic and return to our hectic lives, buyers want home to be a refuge.”
Most homeowners will do a project or two when they decide to put their home on the market, and painting the interior is at the top of the list. Choosing the right color for interior walls can help a home sell quickly. But if you’re painting your front door, don’t pick gray. Zillow’s report found that a mid-tone gray front door, such as a
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When you’re a child, you’re always crafting. Even the simplest bits and pieces that you find around the house are turned into clumsy but colorful works of art but, as we get older, we tend to lose some of that limitless imagination.
A ‘thriller’ plant adds a strong statement with its form and colors while the fillers fill up space neatly. The spillers dangle at the edge of the pot, and all three create a mesmerizing green look! Here are the Best Spiller Filler Thriller Plants for you!
The warm weather is here and that means it's time to pull out your fans, dehumidifiers, and air conditioners. If you aren't blessed with central air in your home, then you are all too familiar with the yearly task of finding the right cooling appliances and positioning them just so as to ensure you stay cool in all areas of your home.
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If you've found yourself drawn to Mediterranean style as of late, you're certainly not alone. Jeffrey Dungan of Jeffrey Dungan Architects greatly appreciates Mediterranean style design and shares a few of its key elements.
Gardeners know pollinators are essential, especially those industrious bees buzzing tirelessly in and out of squash blossoms and trumpet vines. But one kind of bee may wear your patience thin if you’ve discovered their handiwork: Carpenter bees! If you’ve found perfectly round ½-diameter holes drilled into your deck timbers, wood siding, mailbox posts, or outdoor furniture with a little sawdust beneath the holes, you may be housing these gentle bees.
Brown marmorated stink bugs may have a funny name, but no one who has to deal with them is laughing. “They can be a significant issue for commercial growers and home gardeners in regions where the stink bug population is high,” says Jim Walgenbach, PhD, professor and extension entomologist atNorth Carolina State University. “All life stages of stink bugs can cause damage to foliage and fruit.”They feed on all kinds of plants, both edible and ornamental, but their favorites include peaches, apples, pears, pecans, tomatoes, peppers and sweet corn.
Whether you're mowing the lawn or hosting a cookout, the last thing you want to worry about is stinging insects such as wasps. But the truth is that wasps have a somewhat undeserved bad reputation. These insects actually do plenty of good in our lawns and gardens, and not all types of wasps are aggressive.
When decluttering your home, it can be hard to know what to keep and what to toss. While there are some things you shouldn’t worry about letting go, there are others that you may regret throwing out.
One’s mailbox is one of the first contacts with the household, being in the front yard, in an accessible area for the postman, it often enters the perspective of the pedestrian walking along; in some cases, the mailbox itself is the only item that connects you with the outside world, reason for which, cool mailboxes are carrying an immense responsibility, they`re meant to connect buildings with the pedestrians, with the road, they`re meant to function as small landmarks for households, and more importantly, businesses; in some cases they facilitate mailbox correspondence too.
The front door or the porch are the very first elements of a home that come into play for welcoming one and all, and that’s why they must be appealing and of course, beautiful to look at. But over the years, things seem to lose their curb appeal and get all worn out and old. However, just a few steps of creative makeover can add new life to the same. Here are 25 Marvelous Curb Appeal Ideas That Can Rejuvenate Your Home With Gorgeousness.