Selling Your Home? Avoid this Color at All Costs

Pantone 448 C, aka “Opaque Couché,” might sound fancy, but don’t let its name deceive you. It’s known as the world’s ugliest color.

The hue of Opaque Couché is so drab that it is often associated with death—which is why the Australian government chose the color for cigarette packaging. Their goal was to make the packaging as unappealing as possible. Since implementing the new packaging, smoking in Australia has in fact decreased.

At first, the color was described as “olive green.” But this didn’t sit well with the Australian Olive Association. Wanting to protect the reputation of olives, they urgently requested a different description. The nickname for this color became “drab dark brown.” It has also been described as “sewage-tinged.”

Needless to say, this is the worst paint color for your home.

Although this color has been great for decreasing smoking and saving lives, it’s obviously not the best for selling homes. Even if you somehow find yourself in agreement with this color, whatever you do, do not keep your walls this color when it’s time to sell your house. If you do, finding a buyer is going to be a challenge.

Neutralizing a home is a top priority when staging it. Neutral colors appeal to the masses. Opaque Couché does the opposite. To most people, it is an eyesore. It is among the top colors you should never use for home staging. The color is very distracting and will steal the focus away from your home. A distasteful color might be all that a prospective buyer remembers when they leave. In contrast, the right colors will enhance the perceived value of a home. Choose one of these 5 beautiful neutral paint colors instead.\

The Sherwin-Williams Equivalent

The Sherwin-Williams version of the ugliest color is “Enduring Bronze” (SW 7055). It has an LRV, or light reflecting value, of 7. Yet another reason that the world’s ugliest color is the worst paint color for your home. With an LRV of 7, this color barely reflects any light. If you choose to use this color in a home you plan to keep, do so sparingly, or make sure there is sufficient light in the room. When staging a home, it is better to pick paint colors that have a higher LRV and reflect more light. Neutral colors generally have high light-reflecting values. These include earth tones, beiges, taupes, and buff. Neutral colors not only make a room feel larger, but they also further enhance the feeling of clean, fresh, and new.

Tips for Using This Color for Your Home (If You Must)

Still love this color regardless of popular opinion? Here are some tips for using this color for a home you plan to keep. Mix this color with other shades of green and earth tones to make it more soothing and serene. Feel free to add real or faux plants. Mix it with other colors that make it look less drab like rich purples, wine reds, and burgundies. Burnt oranges and rust colors will also help warm this color up.

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‘Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill house to become a bed and breakfast.

By Sarah Paynter

February 17, 2021 | 11:14am | Updated

https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/silence-of-the-lambs-house-to-become-a-bed-and-breakfast/

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However, “Silence of the Lambs” fans will soon be able to stay at the dimly lit, wallpapered house where Buffalo Bill skinned his victims in the 1991 hit movie starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Ted Levine.

New York theatrical art director Chris Rowan purchased the home for $290,000 on January 28 and plans to convert it into a quaint bed and breakfast, TMZ reported. The investment comes as the movie turns 30 and a “Silence” spinoff, CBS’s series “Clarice,” is embraced by some fans and chewed out by others.

Rowan won’t have to do much to restore the four-bedroom, one-bathroom house to its horror glory — the home outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, already has many of its original features, including its old-fashioned wallpaper, hardwood floors, pocket doors and dark wood trim. And the exterior of the three-story house is the same yellowish-red brick with a wraparound porch as seen in the movie.

Rowan will probably need to update the kitchen, which doesn’t appear to be industrial enough to support guests as-is, and he might need to add a few more bathrooms, since the house only has one, according to the listing.

What about the torture well in the basement?

But the most important renovation will be the infamous well in the basement where Hollywood’s original psychopathic B&B, played by Levine, traps his victims.

Filmmakers shot the basement well scenes off-site — the house doesn’t actually have a creepy hole in the ground — but the new owner reportedly plans to add one to give guests the full Buffalo Bill experience.

However, the original basement, specifically the cold cellar, was featured in the movie, according to a video by the listing brokers, Eileen Allan and Shannon Assad of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices⁣.

“It actually is kind of creepy in here,” said the brokers in the video. The narrow cold cellar is made of brick and wood paneling and has a window and exposed pipes. The rest of the real-life basement is unfinished, with a naked staircase, concrete floors and visible wires.

The house is only yards from the train tracks in the opening shot of the Buffalo Bill scene. And while the 1.76-acre yard doesn’t have the same RV shown in the movie, it has a vintage Chessie train caboose, which Rowan could easily convert into a recreational vehicle.

The 2,334-square-foot Queen Anne Victorian-style house has some other features that aren’t featured in the film, such as a stained-glass window in the bathroom and three fireplaces dating back to 1910, when the house was built. And the previous owners added a gazebo, a rose garden, a fountain and a ceramic-tile deck to the house.

How did it end up in the movie?

The house was listed for $298,500 in September after the previous owner purchased it for $195,000 in 2016 from its longtime owners, the Lloyds, who agreed to let “The Silence of the Lambs” producers shoot in the house. The scenes were shot over the course of three days.

“They [movie location scouts] were looking for a home in which you entered the front door and had a straight line through . . . They wanted it to look like a spider web, with Buffalo Bill drawing Jodie Foster into the foyer, into the kitchen, then into the basement,” Barbara Lloyd told the Daily Mail in 2015, the last time the home was on the market.

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