THIS Front Door Colour Will Add the Most Value to Your House

With the property market reopening, as restrictive lockdown measures decrease, many people are keen to get their properties up for sale. To give homeowners an advantage when deciding to sell their home, Sell House Fast considered potential variables that could change the value of a property.

Our team of housing experts sought to find out whether the colour of your front door can affect the value of your house and the psychology behind different door colours. To find out more, we spoke to Lee Chambers MSc MBPsS, an Environmental Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultant, who told us:

“Colour is a powerful
tool to communicate action, influence choice and even change people’s mood.
It can even influence physiological reactions. While in office design, we use
green in regenerative environments, and blue in productive environments, the
colour of your front door can influence a buyer’s initial perception.
Our eyes are drawn to entrance points, so a front door is often one of the
first things we notice.”

Therefore, the colour of your front door colour could
potentially spell the difference between a quick
house sale, or waiting months down the line to receive an offer. In order
to sell your home as fast as possible and increase the value of your home, be
sure to choose the colour of your front door carefully. But which colour should
you pick? 

Which door
colours add the most value to your home?

As
part of our research, Sellhousefast.uk analysed over 1,000 properties on the UK
house buying website Zoopla, with 3 bedrooms and a garden, and calculated the
average price as £275,000.

Then,
10 properties of each door colour were picked at random to see if there was a
price difference on average. Following analysis, Sellhousefast.uk found that blue
is the most valuable front door. In fact, a blue front door can add a
whopping £4,000 to your house value!

The
second most valuable door colour is white, which adds roughly £3,400
to the value of your house.

However,
the least valuable door colour is brown, which actually
decreases the value of your property by £700.  

When
it comes to getting the most value from your property, Sellhousefast.uk spoke
to Alex Willcocks of Burbeck Interiors, who says:

“Extreme colours for doors are great if you
want to inject your personality into your property but aren’t great for
selling houses. They can be seen as vulgar, and harsh, and negatively
retracts from the rest of the property and its features.”

When it comes to the best colour to sell your property, Willcocks advised Sell House Fast:

“I would recommend
painting your front door a neutral colour. Or for a more modern
property, opt for a more contemporary style as a focal point. People like
to imagine themselves living in the property, and this is why neutral and
minimalistic colours and styles work best.”

This is what
different door colours say about you and your home

We also looked into the psychology of colour and what it
conveys about your home to potential buyers. We found the following:

• A black door is one of the most popular door colours in the UK. Although
  black is sometimes described as “mysterious”, it is predominantly seen as stylish
  and sophisticated.
• A blue front
  door can promote a feeling of serenity and a sense of freedom to potential
  buyers, which might suggest why this colour door adds the most value to your
  property.
• A red front door conveys a sense of
  traditional elegance. It helps to make an otherwise bland exterior pop,
  becoming a striking focal point for your home.
• A green front
  door can evoke the feeling of trust and safety – something any potential
  homeowner wants from a home. It can also signify prosperity, life and growth,
  too.
• A white front door is a popular colour for modern
  abodes. The colour signifies that your home is clean, organised, and peaceful.
• A brown
  front door – usually built from natural wooden materials – suggests that your
  home is strong and stable.

Selling your home can feel like a daunting process, but with Sell House Fast you’re choosing a quick, fair and reliable solution tailored to your needs. We buy any house across the UK – no matter the condition, location or circumstances – and as a leading cash house buyer our cash offer gives you the certainty to move on with peace of mind.

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