Painting: Using The Same Color Scheme Or Not?

[Mike V.]

Hey everyone,

If you are flipping homes, do you  use the same color schemes for all your houses, do you have a couple of different color schemes you select from, or is it different every time? What would you guys recommend?

[Roy N.]

If you were farming one particular neighbourhood for your flips, I'd be concerned about painting them all the same colour selection as no-one wants to walk into their neighbours house and find it absolutely identical.   Selecting different sets colours from a common palette for houses near to one another may have benefit. 

An alternative, if you can get your flips under contract before they are finished, is to provide the buyer the option of selecting the paint colours.

The bland overuse of "builder beige" is one of the things I always notice when touring a new subdivision or row house development.   

We are buy and hold investors and use a common palette across our units; even then, I try to vary things a little between two neighbouring properties - perhaps different accent wall colours or light fixtures, etc.