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To select the right color for each room of your home, design experts recommend applying the following strategies.

1.    Coordinate with the Room's use. - Certain colors lend themselves to certain activities.  For example, studies show that kitchen and dining room areas painted in "food colors"-such as celery green or red-increase appetite, whereas blue acts as an appetite supressant. 

2.    Paint for the Season. - Color directly impacts your senses, making a room's temperature feel cooler or warmer.  For example, bring in warm colors-such as reds, oranges and yellows-in the fall and winter months, and cooler colors-greens, blues, and purples-during the spring and summer.  To save yourself some hassle, paint just one accent wall in a room or bring out the season-appropriate colors using accessories such as throw pillows or a vase of flowers.

3.    Use a Directional Approach - The effect of color on percived temperature also means that the direction a room faces should influance color choices.  North facing rooms may not feel as warm and inviting to buyers because they don't get as much sunlight, an impression that can be lessened by painting them a warm color.  "If you have a very warm room that is facing south, and you want to cool it or calm it down, use cooler hues of blue or green".

4.    Harmonize - You can also use color to provide a sence or order and balance in a home.  Using variations of the same color throughout a house, rather than painting every room a different, contrasting color, provides a sense of flow from one room to another and doesn't distract buyers' eyes. 

Paint is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to make a substantial change to any room.