What colour kids rooms to sell?

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My children's rooms currently both have murals.

DS's room has blue walls with a mural on two of them, a red contrast wall and a dark blue ceiling (with star stickers). His furniture is wood (mostly pine)

We're going to paint over all of that I think, he's a bit old for the style of mural anyway. Trying to keep costs down (and I'm thinking we'll need loads of coats!) but thinking probably white all over, then coloured furnishings in the room to brighten it. Is white too harsh? Would it put people off?

It'd be easier if we could keep the blue ceiling or the red accent wall, but am I right in thinking they'd put people off?

My DD's room is already white, (and it goes with her white furniture with colourful accents). One wall has a much more recent mural of a woodland scene, it's well done and looks lovely in my (biased!) opinion.

DD loves it. DP and I are in two minds over whether to paint over it foe viewings or not. Options are:

• paint it all white
• keep the mural but let potential buyers know, that we painted over a mural in the other room just fine, and offer to get rid of it if they don't like it?
• paint it all some other colour

WWYD?

Good point @purplewhitegreen. I agree. Defo re-paint!

DS room - repaint walls and ceiling - as there are strong colours you will need a good undercoat - paint ceiling white and walls either white or a very pale colour (off white, pale grey, etc)

DD room - leave it as it is (sounds like walls and ceiling are all white? With one tasteful mural on one wall? If so it's fine)

Rest of house - you could leave the neural/pale colours but should paint over anything too strong or hideous. Again you'll need undercoat.

I would do as much of it white as you can, not bother with magnolia- it's not as if your house will be empty, so it shouldn't look stark.

We've been doing up a currently empty house to sell, the estate agents who have come in to value have all said that they are glad we have painted white, not magnolia, as it looks so much less dated. Conversely, the rental we are in is all magnolia with the odd feature wall, as it shows less marks and lasts longer.

The words 'attractive mural' sound like tautology to me.

Paint everything pale grey or similar. All this. Lie and red sounds awful tbh.

Definitely paint that dark blue ceiling at the very least, that will be a bitch to do and would put me off a property. I would blitz all rooms with strong colours and paint them neutral. We once bought a house that had a room with a mural of a beach scene with a red and white striped lighthouse. It was beautifully painted but an absolute horror to get rid of.

If I viewed a property online that had brightly painted rooms like the fuschia colour above I just wouldn't view it. Some people like strong colours but they aren't for me.

Maybe it depends on your market but if I walked into a house that was painted in PBW throughout my first thought would be that it would all have to go. If I came in to a calm neutral creamy shade throughout I would be content to leave it. I find PBW strident and unsettling.

If you can mix and use it all in one go the mix 15l of magnolia with 15l of white. Great idea!

My kids had their rooms painted blue (DC1), yellow(DC2) and pink/purple (DC3) which we all loved but we painted oveer them when we sold the house on the advice of the agent. We did a coat of basic white emulsion then two coats of something like Natural Hessian or Egyptian hessian - can't quite remember but it was pale but not as 'cold' as white. They also had simple duvet covers (white or pale blue - yes I know its sexist but it was years ago!) rather than their cartoon ones.

I have no idea whether it helped to sell the house or not