how important is color to you when buying a house?

If the color did not suit me, I would try to include that cost in the buying of the house if possible. The most important thing to me is location and how it fit the family's needs. I look at the room sizes, the shape of the roof, siding, furnace, etc. I try to picture what it would be like to live in the house. How the family would interact in it. A too open floor plan leaves little privacy, but a too closed floor plan or rooms that are small limit how flexible one can be in the home. It is important to be located in a good community with good schools and amenities, also. The house color is probably the last thing I would consider. I once saw a pink house with blue trim and noticed that someone bought that house and once it was repainted, it was absolutely beautiful. Color can always be changed but not location or structure.

We may tell ourselves that color is not important when we go house hunting. We are fooling only ourselves. Color thoughts hide in the back of our minds. Neutral bland colors that look like everyone else get pushed aside. Bold brassy colors are ruled out for their obvious reasons. When the right color combination comes along, you will know you have the perfect house.

When I used to live in a village I cycled to work in a school. I cycled past a pink cottage with a thatched roof. I could see past the color and noticed a charming little home. My favorite property that I have ever seen was on a road in another village that my mom used to drive past. It was a white house with brown beams and a thatched roof. I liked its neutral color. It stood out to me to be the most gorgeous looking abode. In my local city close to the train station is a street in which every house is painted a different color. It is rather like a rainbow affect. When buying a house the most important issue is that my home must be in a peaceful location. It should have pleasant views. Inside it should have a downstairs bedroom and a downstairs bathroom for my disabled son. The color of the house could be changed if I dislike it. I wouldn't be able to make the garden any bigger. I think that a beige house would appeal to me.

I want to see something homey and color is helpful

I wont look at a prospective house according to the exterior color or even the interior as this can be changed rather easily. Most of the houses I bought had alum siding and brick. So it would be rather costly to change it all. Ive been happy with my choices. I had one house built and the brick and siding was grey with white trim and doors. Now the house I own had grey brick and grey alum siding with white trimming. Not sure if the exterior of the house had something to do with me liking it....but I knew I fell in love with the size of the house and how big the rooms were. I wanted a lot of space and thats what I was looking for.

not so much on the color because i can always change it once bought. but i think the color could have influenced the perspectives of the house. and that would eventually influence its price. i love to see some old buildings here painted white. they seem majestic, mysterious, magical, priceless. i wouldn't have felt the same if they were painted in different shades.

The preference is always set aside for pale and light colors, both interiors and exteriors.

Dear friend, I am not much bothered about the colour as I could change whenever I want to. Moreover I do much look on the price with the plan and quality of house. How strong the house and its planning.

Oh, interesting. I had never thought of the colour of a house before buying/renting, as what I care of is how is the house in the inside, facilities, distance from the station, rent, neighbourhood, etc, but never thought of the colour. If it is rented, you can't change the colour, so I guess that for that it can matter for some people, but you're right. If you buy the house, it's yours and you can change the colour to turn it into your best place to live.

I do mind. And its very important to me the color of the house. Theirs an art inside of me trying to come out. I don't own a house. And in my current situation I can't buy a house. But some loves cars. Some loves boats. But I love a house. I don't know for me its my dream to have a house that I myself pick or design.

well for me any bright colors will do for my house cause i want the ambiance of the house is very light in the eyes...

well, color doesnt matter at all if i am going to buy one. what matters most is the design and the environment it stands... we can always change and modify the color of the house once we have bought it with respect to what our eyes wanna see.

Very much important coz the color of my house dictates how good the ambiance could be.

The color is not very improtant to me when I buy house. But I prefer pure colors.

The color is not the most important, but if I did not like the color chances are I would not even entertain living in the house. When me and my husband bought the house that we are living right now we were not looking for a specific color. It is not like buying a car. Now if we had built from scratch then we would have considered the color of the outside.

The color is quite important for me when buying a house. The brightness, or drabness, of the paint can make it pleasing to look at and contribute to the general feeling of the house. I bought my house a few years ago and was attracted to the rose colored paint that they used on the outside. Inside, it was all cream colored, which I had repainted to a light green. The colors of a house make me relax that's why it is important for me.

I think that as long as the color of the house does not distract or clash it's fine. Maybe a light blue, a beige like you've suggested, or even a white color would be nice. If the house has brick and siding I would want the siding to go with the brick. Blue probably wouldn't cut it, so I'd say a beige or off white color, white I would feel would be too stark.

You can always change the color but the beige colors give a warmth feeling to prospecting buyers and a feel of the neighborhood. A facade of sorts. I am the type that would strip the color and paint it. Hard work but worth it. I show houses all the time. Buyers look for space so lighter colors make the rooms look bigger. They also look at he space outside if they are entertainers. I also have those buyers that will circle the neighborhood at night, rainy days to see the flooding levels (drainage) and check crime statistics in the neighborhood on their own. Buyers are educated.