Staging your home to sell quickly includes updating your spaces with paint colors that will appeal to most buyers.
While gray walls have been in for nearly a decade, the tide is shifting to warm neutrals like soft white, cream and even beige! Listing your home soon or just ready for a change of color? Here are our favorite hard-working paint colors.
Seapearl
Don’t leave behind all gray paint colors, just yet! It’s cool gray paint colors that buyers have serious fatigue over, not the more balanced warmer greiges like Benjamin Moore Seapearl.
Ballet White
Beige colors continue to be on trend and especially practical to update homes with more dated fixed elements. Benjamin Moore’s Ballet white is a neutral pale beige.
Edgecomb Gray
Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray is a classic warm greige that will never go out of style.
Oyster White
Sherwin Williams Oyster White is a great color to use on interiors and exteriors. This color is a shade darker than an off-white, which warms up nicely outdoors and provides a clean and welcoming backdrop indoors.
Benjamin Moore White Dove
White walls have been in for a couple years, but instead of stark white that can instantly go cold, opt for a soft off-white like White Dove. White Dove also works really well with many of the popular shades of quartz, and would look great on cabinets.
Pale Oak
Once an overlooked color has now been pushed to the forefront as homeowners grow tired of the cool gray walls, Pale Oak is a warm middle ground. Warmer than gray but cooler than beige, Pale Oak is actually a taupey-greige that works beautiful to soften a space.
Manchester Tan
Many of us have kitchens that were built during the brown trend, leaving us perplexed about how to update them without going over budget. Enter Manchester Tan. Technically speaking, Manchester Tan is a beige that has very neutral undertones and works really well with a lot of the dark brown granites that are still in kitchens today.
Hale Navy
Give your home office a dramatic facelift when you opt for an ultra-saturated hue like Hale Navy. With more and more homeowners looking for a dedicated work space, give your home office some extra love when you freshen up the space with a bold hue.
Hale Navy is a very deep navy blue with charcoal undertones, making it a perfect paint color for an office.
Tate Olive
Green is in big time this year, gracing offices, kitchens, and even exteriors. We like Benjamin Moore’s Tate Olive for a good, middle-of-the-road muted green.
Keep reading: 2025 paint color trends
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Allen Tate is the Carolinas’ largest real estate company with more than 70 offices and 1,800 Realtors in the Charlotte, Triad, Triangle, High Country, Upstate SC, Highlands/Cashiers and Asheville/Mountain regions. Allen Tate is a partner of Howard Hanna Real Estate, the largest privately held real estate broker in the U.S., with 500 real estate, mortgage, insurance, title, and escrow service offices and 15,000 sales associates and staff across 13 states. For more information, visit www.allentate.com and www.howardhanna.com.
