After a year and after crashed with my sister, I am desperate Feel my new fare apartment like homeI have a limited set of equipment, a passion to read the instructions well, and the confidence of a general contractor with decades experience.
Here are all changes that are my roommates and I have decided to make my place so that it really feels like home, regardless of the fact that we are only rent.
Mounted curtain rods on the wall
Gone stress is the days of rods; Enter the era of adult curtains. This was one of the first things I mentioned in my roommate after signing my new lease, and we were immediately on the same page. Nothing says “I have grown up” such as big screen.
For the living room, we are clinging to some sheer, tan curtains with frogs on them (no one said Everything To be an adult) who will still let the light go in. For my bedroom, however, I am going to all: double rods that will accommodate both Decorative curtainsAnd a functional light-fiercely one.
Want more design inspiration? Sign up for our free daily newspaper Latest decoration ideas, designer tips, and more!
Anything but tenant-white walls
Anastasia Bebenco / Getty Images
If you are trying Feel the tenant From your rental apartments, the first thing that is found is stock white walls and landlords special (paint-over bugs and screw).
Although we have not yet landed on a treatment – whether it has some combinations of paint, wallpaper, or two – my roommate and I definitely agree that it should be, and soon. We have already excluded the walls that we want to customize: in an entryway, in one living room, and one in each bedroom.
Peel
I will not lie to you, my roommate and I hit Jackpot with our original hard wood floor apartments. In addition to tiles in the bathroom, the only room without hard wood floor is the kitchen.
Instead, it is Millennium gray laminate flooring Both of these new and unnecessary seem to be permanently stained. sincerely? It is a mood killer.
Therefore, we have decided to cover it with more colored peel-and-stick vinyl floor tiles that will make the space feel more home and tie it better with the decoration of the living room.
Drilled holes for everything
Sprous / Jason Donley
However this is to work my new power drill (and my DIY Reno Skills for Testing), my roommate and I agreed to permanently growing things on the wall long before buying my new equipment.
Forgive anyone for your TV on a console table, it’s not just for me. A wall-mounted TV, curtains, art and lighting will definitely make our location feel more adults and too much like home.
Dragling with drilling
I can drill confidently in my walls because I know how Specify the holes properly Leave behind. I raised it before some apartments, and after some mistakes. I am still planning them very carefully because the less I do for myself in future, the better.
Actually chic overhead lighting
Our fare apartment comes with naturally rigid, unavoidable overhead lighting. And when we would like to stick to secondary light sources such as lamps, it is not possible in some areas such as entrances and halls.
Instead, we are transforming bulbs into a nice yellow color and add different -cover to soften the light and add visual interest to these small places.
Decorative molding
Ekaterina Demidova / Getty Images
A fresh coat of wallpaper and paint can only take you so much when you are looking at the walls of Jhuz. And, unfortunately, the hall between our living area and the bedroom is very narrow to employ either of them – it will just feel heavy and visually tired.
ENTER: Peel-end-stick molding. This decorative banded space will add texture and character to our walkway without over-porting. This will be to apply both our two for the first time, so if it goes successfully, we are excited about the idea of putting it in other places as well.
Customized bedroom
The first thing I did, when we got the key of our new apartment, we too Cleaned deep spaceThe closet doors were removed in my bedroom. They were slipping the doors that felt my already small room clostophobic, and left no space for a dresser inside the closet or in the room.
Now, out of the way with them, I can comfortably fit my dresser inside the closet area. I bought a set of linen curtains that matches people visiting my window, and would mount them to the wall to serve them as a barrier between the closet and the bedroom.
Talking about the growing things on the wall, both my roommates and I have already put the shelves in our rooms, and I have also added a lamp on a wall. I am considering an additional ceiling-mounted light stability for my room, but I might have to call the real professionals so that one can do one.
