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If you’re building or renovating a house, just know; you don’t always have to listen to your contractor. Especially about design!

Despite what they’ll tell you, you don’t have to choose white subway tile because “it’s better for resale value.”

Designing your dream home is NOT about what an unknown future buyer wants. Where’s the dream in that?

The whole idea of “resale value” is a sad, sad, creativity killer. It’s definitely no way to be living your life. After all, your home is your biggest investment and asset. It’s where you’ll spend so much of your time and create so many memories. So why shouldn’t it be uniquely yours?

If that opening monologue hasn’t sold you, here are 4 reasons we should all forget the idea of decorating for resale value.

It’s your house NOW

Unless you plan to sell your home in a year or two, don’t do yourself the disservice of designing your home with resale value in mind.

Instead, design your home with YOUR happiness in mind.

Don’t be bullied into boring tile just because “that’s what buyers want”. Choose tiles in a pattern you love, because this home is yours NOW.

Paint your walls. Hang heaps of art. Make your home the haven it should be. After all, walls can be repainted and holes can be filled, so don’t hold back expressing yourself.

🎬 WATCH: Decorating for resale value

There’s a growing appetite for colour

Believe it or not, buyers enjoy colour too!

But I’m not telling you to go crazy with colour because that’s what future buyers want. I’m telling you to decorate how YOU want, especially if that includes colour.

Unlike us millennials (who apparently all love “millennial grey” and “sad beige”) the new crop of Gen Z buyers are much more open to colour, pattern and bold design styles.

Lots of people are looking for homes with personality. So don’t assume that coloured tile, carpets or walls are going to hurt your resale value, whenever that day comes.

You’re wasting money on decor you don’t really love

Tile, carpet, wallpaper and paint is expensive. Why spend your hard-earned money on any of that if you’re not even choosing it for yourself?

Instead, make selections that you actually love. If you love them, I guarantee a future home buyer will love them too. And if not, they’ll just renovate.

Whether you opt for simple styling or full-of-personality, a lot of the time, buyers are gonna want to put their own spin on things and will gut everything anyway. So you might as well spend your money on things you actually like and decorate for yourself.

🎬 WATCH: You decided not to decorate for resale value

You might actually be hurting resale value

It’s soooo boring when everything looks the same.

The world doesn’t need any more cookie cutter homes. If everyone else is decorating for resale value, then there’s bound to be lots of similar looking houses on the market.

When it does come time to sell, what’s going to make your home stand out? If you just took the cookie cutter route, then your house is probably a dime a dozen.

In ten or twenty years time, it’ll be Gen Z and Gen Alpha buying your home. If you don’t plan to sell your home til then or even later, then I can guarantee the monochrome, minimal aesthetic that we’ve become too comfortable with will be completely outdated anyway.

So in summary; don’t waste your hard-earned money on safe selections that don’t excite you, because they won’t even be in fashion when you sell. Instead, decorate according to your personal style, because the time is now.

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