Customizing your house is great if you plan to stay there, but extreme colours and themed rooms can scare potential purchasers away if you are planning to sell. Colour is a personal thing – one person’s harmonious colour scheme is another’s crime against humanity. Don’t let differences in personal taste affect the sale of your house. If you have customized every room with extremely bright or dark coloured paint, wallpaper or wall fixtures, you may want to consider toning it down a bit.

Repainting walls to something blander is the most inexpensive upgrade that can make a huge impact to the look of your house. Give your walls a fresh coat of paint in a neutral colour (something like “Timeless” from Dulux works well) which will make your rooms immediately appear bigger and lighter (major selling points).

Using neutral colours on the walls can help prospective purchasers create their own vision for the house and adapt the rooms to their needs, leaving them with less work to undo if they buy the house. It will also be easier for the purchasers to move in and use the rooms immediately rather than if the walls are still brightly or darkly coloured. You could also hang professionally framed art on the walls. Keep it neutral with appropriate themes for each room.