Rehab trends to use

[Mathew Morford]

We am currently rehabbing our home to possibly sell or get a HELOC on. That being said I have a few questions that I hope some people can answer for us. (Im sure these have been asked on this forum, but I couldn't find any recent posts)

1. What is the best colors to use when painting the interior of your home to sell? I was currently thinking about a light gray walls with white trim and ceilings. I have also been told to just do white on white, but Im not sure if that is what everyone is looking for now a days. 

2. We are on the fence of either replacing my kitchen cabinets, or just painting them. My kitchen cabinets aren't super old, so painting them would save money (I believe), but Im wondering if it even matters. My current cabinets are a medium/dark wood stain. they look great for what they are, but I have seen a lot of people paint them and they look great, but I also didn't know if I should just leave them the way they are. 

3. My bathroom is definitely getting updated. We have a modern bathroom vanity setup, but the tub/shower isn't. The old owner was trying to make the bathroom modern 13 years ago by adding a very small almost hidden closet that is unusable, but we want to remove it. We also want to remove the tub/shower and make it just a shower, but we only have 1 full bath in the house and we weren't sure if that is something that would lower interest in our property. 

4. We were thinking of adding an accent wall on the wall our TV hangs on, but we weren't sure if that would even matter on selling the house? 

Other than all of that, we are wanting to do all of this in hopes it can create some more equity and possibly help us with getting our future in Real Estate going. We are wanting to buy a property (or 2) to start doing short term or mid term rentals. 

Thanks to everyone in advance on your responses.