How To Give Your Home A Timeless Appeal

*This is a collaborative post on giving your home a timeless appeal

Let’s face it: highly stylised homes can be beautiful. Take the exposed brick walls and metalwork of industrial interiors or modern minimalist designs that strip everything back in a different but equally impactful way. 

However, you’ll find that most buyers are looking for a blank canvas that they can put their stamp on. This means that you can encounter challenges and have to make concessions when selling properties with a strong overriding style. 

Here’s how to give your home a timeless appeal that will help to increase resale value while keeping the space personalised to you and your interior design tastes.

Neutral colour palette

Begin with a neutral colour palette as your base. This includes light innocuous background shades such as white, cream and beige, and soft delicate earth tones such as mushroom and stone. 

Using this plain palette as the foundation of your décor will naturally keep you away from colours we identify with a certain era or style, ensuring that sense of timelessness.

A neutral colour palette also enables buyers to visualise how they would decorate the room which is a vital part of the selling process. Bright colours can turn off prospective buyers which in turn devalues the home and can slow the sale.

Steer clear of trends for timeless appeal

To stop your home from relating too closely to any one time, steer clear of trends. Instead, go for classic designs with universal appeal and prioritise quality to add value. 

This is especially important for fittings and fixtures that will be included in the sale when you put your house on the market. For example, forgo elaborate chandeliers or severe contemporary lights in favour of flush-fit bulbs and unobtrusive shades. 

You should also continue classic choices throughout the rest of the interiors including your furnishings and décor. Select furniture in standard shapes, high-quality bedding with a simple design and flooring that suits the purpose of the room. 

Running this timeless look across each room should help to snap up a quick sale when you’re ready to move.

Add character with accessories

Having a neutral backdrop and classic furniture doesn’t mean that your interiors have to be plain. You can add character to this simple style with accessories that can simply be removed or scaled back when visitors come to view your home.

There are many ways to add personality to your space and ensure that your home feels like your own special haven while you’re living there. Decorate with your favourite colours and textures, and cover the walls with art that you love and photographs of friends and family. You can also create areas suited to your lifestyle such as a reading nook or TV room.

Plants are another way to put an impermanent stamp on your property, and they will literally breathe life into your interiors by oxygenating the rooms.