Don't people neutralise before selling any longer ?

[Milkasheika]

found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145090202 Oh my eyes

It’s gorgeous, full of character and decor,
especially wallpaper helps expose the features of the property, eg lovely high ceilings.

The kitchen doors aren’t too my taste but easily resolved!

Gorgeous flat and great location.

Do you prefer the Mrs Hinch look OP?

I think it's absolutely beautiful and there's nothing at all I'd change. Looks really elegant and well done with expensive wallpaper and good quality fittings. I appreciate you've stated sensory problems, but most people don't have these issues so would find somewhere plain quite cold and lacking in appeal. I guess we're all different though!

It's more annoying when someone's redecorated a neutral sea of beige and grey to sell and then try to get a premium because it's been newly decorated.

Whichever house I bought I'd want to decorate myself. I suspect most people are the same.

The kitchen looks quite high spec... why waste money destroying just to sell, probably with something inferior... for them then to pull it all out to pit in another high spec kitchen?

You could easily have asked without sharing a link.

Your opinion of someone else's decor is irrelevant.

Next time, think how would feel if someone shared your house with the words 'my eyes'.

Lol..its gorgeous!!! But the bathtub ..not so sure!

This. Waste of money and terrible for the environment

Perfectly nice flat, I hate this trend for picking apart peoples properties on Rightmove. That's someone's home and personal choice. Very rude.

Plus, not everyone likes dull

I can't see the link but do you mean paint the whole house horrible grey or beige when you say neutralise.

Your follow up post shows you were attempting to denigrate the house. With how apparently you’re all overloaded and your husband wishes to burn the kitchen.

and yes, some tv programs used to say to neutralise, but no one spends a small fortune redecorating their home and replacing the kitchen to sell unless it’s in a very bad way. This home is lovely and not in need of anything.

if it’s not your taste, and you run to the bland, then just move on, but I suspect the fact it is a lovely property is exactly what made you post. The green eyed monster took over.

I can't see the kitchen as bad link but I guess it doesn't look like an operating theatre or laboratory

Or inside a submarine.
It's a lovely kitchen. The cupboards are painted a cheerful red. Quite why the OP's husband wants to burn them is anyone's guess.

But you could have asked that question without sharing the link to someone’s (lovely) home, and what’s with the comment about your husband wanting to burn the kitchen? You both sound slightly deranged, and of course people don’t ‘neutralise’ before selling - what a waste of money and time that would be. Most buyers have the intelligence to know that they can redecorate if they wish.

Plus - it's not "cluttered", so it doesn't need "decluttering".

Superficial decor is not a reason to give a stupidly low offer. Surely nobody cares about a bit of paint or wallpaper. What puts me off a home is artex everywhere, brown plastic skirting boards and door frames everywhere, knackered double glazing etc because these problems are expensive and a pain to deal with. The house I just bought has all of the above. I'm painting door frame number 10 white muttering under my breath and clearing up the God awful mess from the ceiling plastering.

I don’t think the owners would be upset to see the responses here tbh. They have a beautiful flat in a great, central location. That’s what most people are saying.

And they know the bath has been squeezed in to an odd space already. So those of us wondering how we’d (personally) manage to get in and out aren’t saying anything they haven’t thought of.

The weirdest thing about the thread is that the OP has presented this flat as if ‘oh my poor eyes’ is a reasonable summary.

The answer to her question about why people don’t turn their well decorated flat into a griege box is that there’s no point in bothering (it makes no difference for most buyers) and loads of places look much worse when everything is turned into a sea of landlord magnolia.

This flat would look far less good as a sea of grey than the ways it’s currently decorated.

Is it your flat you’re ‘advertising’ OP? 😉

'Neutralise’ as in spend thousands to have their entire property - which they’re about to sell - redecorated in grey/beige from top to bottom, at enormous upheaval to themselves on top of the existing worry and anxiety of going into the property market? Er, no.

Once upon a time, people thought it was fine to make their houses super-tidy and clean then just get people round. Amazingly, those houses sold. We did that, and sold our house on the first afternoon it went on the market. We even had shelves full of books everywhere, and astonishingly it didn’t seem to put the buyers off!

Was expecting something a bit more lairy than that.

Flat is fine. I would be a suspicious of a flat that’s just been neutralised. What is the new paint covering up?

The whole ‘neutralise’ advice came about on tv in relation to houses that had been ‘changing rooms’ style decorated so that bedrooms had fake grass instead of carpet, neon polka dot walls and all the woodwork painted Barbie pink.

It’s only in extreme situations - and where it actually is preventing you selling - that anyone needs to ‘neutralise’ to sell. Buyers are generally expecting to redecorate. So unless it looks like that will cost a fortune and open a can of worms (looking at you: artex walls), they don’t really care if your wallpaper is what they’d have chosen themselves.

Can’t stand white/grey/beige interiors. It always makes me think the owners must be very dull !!

You both sound as unpleasant as each other.

It doesn't suit your taste so you would redecorate. What is unexpected about that? The vendor isn't expected to provide an interior design service for the buyer. And it isn't cluttered.

What an odd post.

The biggest issue is the bath - what a nightmare!