Selling a victorian terrace house, should I try to sell it myself (e.g. purplebricks)?

kangoora

I'm nearing 60 now but looking at your decor I'd be mentally adding up the cost (and hassle) to re-carpet and redecorate pretty much the entire house. Bold, primary, contrasting wall colors and contrasting carpets will be putting off a lot of people I'd hazard a guess. You obviously enjoy that but I'd postulate a pretty large percentage of the population find it overwhelming. I'd imagine it's a similar reason as to why you only rarely see bright sunburst yellow or fluorescent green cars on the road.

There's a reason that new housebuilders go through 1000's of gallons of magnolia/neutral paints a year

strawb_shortcake

The colours aren't to my taste but they are very fitting with the area

SueF1

Personally I'd paint the whole lot white or similar. I know lots of people house hunting at the moment, the majority of whom are completely work averse and would find the fact that they had to redecorate pretty much the whole house totally overwhelming. 
We've been house hunting recently and even though I'd said to myself the decor wouldn't affect me and we wanted to do work to make it our own etc etc (we've gone for one that needs painting/ carpeting throughout, new kitchen, wall knocked down etc), it did affect me and I really had to give myself a slap and say it doesn't matter, we can change it! A lot of people don't feel that way and although I agree that they already know what to expect as they've seen the pictures, perhaps it's a little more overwhelming in the flesh!

NibblyPig

Cheers, makes sense. Although I look at other houses that have been painted generic magnolia and I think ugh that looks awful, it's not much difference in workload to repaint diluted wee colour walls than it is to repaint any other colours, *maybe* an extra coat of white, but it is what it is, psychological I suppose.

Falafels

I personally like your colour scheme, but it does take a lot more work to go from a dark colour to a light one without the darker one cheerfully 'grinning' through!

NibblyPig

If I do repaint some of the brighter colours, is magnolia really the way forward? Or should I just go straight up white? Although many whites always seem to advertise themselves as 'brilliant white'.

Falafels

I personally would go for white rather than magnolia, but I guess it's down to personal preference. It's a more striking colour than magnolia and would therefore fit in better if you choose to leave some of the tonally lighter colours as they are.

NibblyPig

All I can think is how bad the place looked when it was all white and depressing, it's really hard to want to repaint it white, I suppose if that's what people want though

RelievedSheff

NibblyPig said:

All I can think is how bad the place looked when it was all white and depressing, it's really hard to want to repaint it white, I suppose if that's what people want though

You have to step back and depersonalise yourself from the house. You are doing this to sell it not to live in it yourself. It doesn't matter how depressing you find plain white walls, it is what your potential buyers think that matters. 

AdrianC

NibblyPig said:

All I can think is how bad the place looked when it was all white and depressing, it's really hard to want to repaint it white, I suppose if that's what people want though

Like I said - I don't think you need to go that far. Remember, they've seen your photos when they walk in the door.

Address the things that are coming as surprises... - the patchiness, the peeling lino.