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The text says that the true best sellers are various neutrals, and that the colors shown on that map are the " more saturated" hues common in a particular state but not so common in others. Uh, OK.
WA and OR crack me up. For states with so much cloudy, drizzly weather and tall evergreens that not only keep many houses in shade all day but also cast a dark green-gray tone around, and where their largest cities' residents grouse about the grayness and moss, what did they choose for paint colors--dark, drab green-gray.
I got the lecture when we lived in WA, about how "we" "like to have nature's colors for our houses" blahblahblah. Our house had nature's colors, just not dark, gray, drab ones. Yet one person called the exterior "dark and depressing" while another called it "so bright". THE SAME COLOR! I call it a sign of how f'ed up some of the people's minds were. Also of how being "in the middle" just meant you got crap from both extremes, in every sense (not just paint colors), and how they liked to dictate what they wanted on your own property.
It'd be interesting to see what sales figures from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, and other major paint makers show for each state. Might be very different from Behr's colors.
It'd be interesting to see what sales figures from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, and other major paint makers show for each state. Might be very different from Behr's colors.
To be honest, I don't really believe Behr's sales figures reflect this, either. It strikes me as a clever way to get people to look at a lot of their pain samples and then feel attached to one or the other because of their connection to a certain state. Note that every state seems to have a different shade. In reality, from what I've read in other places Swiss Coffee is the color ringing up the most sales in most states. Certainly not a shade of purple or green.
I saw a new listing somewhere the other day that seemed to be priced quite a bit low for the age and size of the house. Every room was painted a dark color... a couple of them black. It looked like the painting was well done, but I'd almost have to think the price reflected the realization that probably 98% of potential buyers were gonna look at that and realize they'd have work to do right off.
Most everything new around here seems to be yellowish beige, often with the same color trim.
They have the green for Texas all wrong, at least in the Houston area. Off white seems to be the standard building color. Not sure how or why they got that color. I've been looking at homes online for a good 2 years and never experienced that color. If anything I've seen various shades of blue. Some muted shades of gray.
Now the house down the street had a green kitchen that was similar. But the house never sold. Then updated pictures online and it sold quickly. They painted the kitchen back to an off white.
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