AIBU to not paint the room before moving

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DH and I are due to move in the next couple of weeks (due to exchange this week).

We haven't done anything to the house since we moved in 5 years ago as it was recently decorated in neutral colours just before we moved in. The only room we felt the need to decorate was the bedroom as we felt it was cosier with a bit of colour. So we painted the walls.

At the time we had a new baby DS so quickly moved furniture into the spare room/baby room and painted. Left it a few days then moved back in. DS then moved into his room a few weeks later.

We decided to sell up and move to a bigger place and try for DC2 (arriving sooner than originally planned ). We put house on the market, found a new place which brings us back round to this week where exchange is due to happen.

Here's the issue. When we painted the room we just wanted a quick fix so only moved the furniture we were able to. We couldn't move the wardrobe so just bought a small paint brush and tried to paint behind the wardrobe as much as possible. Obviously once the wardrobe is moved there's going to be a very obvious section of unpainted wall.

It's been about 2 years since we painted and we have both forgotten about it. It's only come up now as we have been reminiscing about the house and talking about a funny thing which happened while we painted the room. We now have no time to repaint the whole room which we would have to as we have forgotten the specific shade we used.

Do we/should we tell the buyers about this before exchange which could result in us losing our house. It's been 9 months from offer to now and there is a fairly long chain. I don't really know much about our buyers except they are a couple in their mid-late 30s and are first time buyers with no children.

AIBU to think no one would pull out of buying a house due to a poorly painted bedroom wall?

I already know we ABU for having such lazy decorating skills

I am weeping with laughter at the painting around the rug

If you would feel bad not painting then get a small tin of Dulux Once and a mini roller.

Match it best you can with existing colour and just roller that single wall.
Use lots of wet wipes as you go to mop drips and splatters and neaten up edges. I had hard floor though, otherwise you'll need a plastic floor covering.
You can realistically do the painting in about 90 minutes.

I've had to do this to a single wall with radiator recently. It was so quick and saved me £170.

The cost was £22 for a tin of Dulux.
£1 for wipes and £1 for mini roller from value shop.

The wall came out really well.

Buyer should have spotted it and in any event they’ll repaint anyway. Total non issue. People suggesting you repaint are quite odd.

It’s no big deal. All paintwork looks awful when you move out anyway, it exposes the marks and what you thought was a nicely painted house suddenly looks very tired.

If you want good karma, pay for a professional cleaner on moving day! I would choose a clean house over fresh paint any day.

They'll repaint it themselves anyway. Putting wallpaper over crumbling plaster is a different matter (like the people who sold to us), but it still doesn't matter. The cost even to replaster a wall compared to the cost of a house is negligible.