Would sage green wardrobes and duck egg units put off buyers?

[HarryVanderspeigle]

Considering selling in a couple of years. I have duck egg blue kitchen units and am considering painting the built in wardrobe sage green. Would this put anyone off? I can stick to white with the wardrobe, but I like a bit of colour. Would that stop others if they were viewing the house though? I could also paint white again if we do move, but I really can't be arsed.

So not in the same room?

individually probably ok, but not in combo, although I am not a massive fan of sage green.

If planning to sell then I’d keep future buyers in mind? I’m now in our forever home so I’ve gone crazy with colour. My previous house I kept it traditional colours

No, kitchen is one room, wardrobe is in the bedroom. I want to avoid grey as that is starting to date now. It's a North facing room.

It wouldn’t put me off , if I didn’t like it I’d just repaint it .

I would have much more colour if we were staying forever. Maximalist jungle wallpaper and a hot pink sofa. But that is an acquired taste look 😂.

It wouldn’t put me off, but I’d always expect to decorate a new home. Your choices sound nice, I might even want to keep them that way.

Agree grey is horrible.
But I think a neutral warm cream or oatmeal type tint would be best if thinking of selling.
Quirky colours do put people off.
Would put me off.

Oatmeal type colour is a good idea. Adds warmth. Thank you.

Those are such unobjectionable colours, I'd just do it. Enjoy your home. Our first house had an orange living room but that didn't put us off in the slightest. Our current bedroom is still the disgusting snot green it was when we first bought the house - it's our last priority.

I have green built in cupboards in our downstairs boot room. I love them. Card room green F&B is amazing.

We had the traditional avocado bathroom with the hugely popular bird / chicken vein 1970's tiles when we moved in. It might come back into fashion one day....

If it’s a few years off I’d go with the colours that you like. You have to look at them for years.

Sage green and duck egg blue are fairly unobjectionable (I’d like both) and if I didn’t like it I would just redecorate. As a PP said I’d expect to redecorate anyway

I have a very similar colour on the fireplace in the living room. I love it.

Those colours sound lovely to me, the only thing that would put me off is a bad DIY paint job rather than having them professionally spray painted.

I love green and blue, as you would easily tell from my house.

The kitchen here is like a black and white cell, can't wait to sort it out.

Paint it how you want just repaint neutral to sell

I find sage green and all those sort of washed out colours very insipid and same-samey. If you're going to have a colour, have a colour with some life about it! (I can't even express how much I loathe that awful sallow grey-pink colour that is so inexplicably popular, it looks like a fresh corpse's skin!).

So if I were looking at your house, I'd factor the cost of in redecorating anything like that, even just to whitewash it immediately and redo properly later one.

But as pp says, if you are planning on staying there in terms of years, decorate however the hell you want - you have to live there, and I as a potential buyer can just suck it up and prepare my paintbrushes!

I'm also a fan of green and blue and am about to do our boot room in those colours. @HarryVanderspeigle I'd stick with your proposed choices - they sound lovely.

We painted the new cabinets F&B Oval Room Blue at our last house and paired them with a bright red Bertazzoni range cooker. At a previous house we had duck egg cabinetry - our buyers said it was the kitchen that sold the house. Fifteen years on they're still the same colour.

We are maximalists and always decorate in colours we want, even if we're planning to sell. Bold, saturated tones are our preference - so our new kitchen has Edward Bulmer Pompadour walls/base cabinets and Nicaragua wall cupboards.

Imo, a house with 'interesting' colours might be considered niche by some buyers, but at least it's not another grey/greige/white bland, forgettable one!