Painting advice for rental property **title edited by MNHQ**

[MariaDingbat]

Hi all,

My tenant has sadly decided to move on after many, many years so I'm sprucing up the house before i let it again and could use some advice on colours as it's been a long time since I had to view the house to prospective tenants. I'm wondering if it's sensible to do the whole interior in white or if I should paint the living room and bedroom in a neutral colour instead? I'm going to paint the hall, kitchen and bathroom white. The house has 1930's striped pine doors, reclaimed pine picture rail and skirting in the living room, white woodwork in the hallway.

By neutral in thinking of a dupe of F&B's White Tie in the living room and Tallow on the bedrooms. Is it better to do the whole house one colour? Would white brighten it up or make it look stark? I'd be going for a matt white, not a brilliant one. Any advice would be welcome!

As a tenant we have griege colors which look fine but are impossible to touch up which after 3 years is getting frustrating as the paint is very unwashable.

I much prefer plain white that I can touch up.

As a landlord I used dulux washable paints in timeless white.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I spoke with a letting agent today and he confirmed my gut feeling that white will get the house let quicker in my area, whereas if we were selling then neutrals would be the way to go. So I'm off to buy a few massive tubs of (not brilliant) white paint!