Everyone wants a place to call their own, and when you rent your property from someone else, there’s a fine line between ownership and occupancy. You want to make the property you’re paying (high) rent for, feel like your own, yet your landlord isn’t too keen on the idea of changes being made to their property.
Often, a quick chat with your landlord to discuss some aesthetic changes is all you need to get the go-ahead, but if you don’t have the best relationship with them, or you know that your contract dictates that no changes can be made to the interior of your home, then it can feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Thankfully, there are plenty of ways you can personalize and decorate your rented home without jeopardizing your deposit or your relationship with the property owner. Read on for a little inspiration.
Decorate with your memories
If wallpapering and painting are not an option, then there’s no reason why you can’t decorate your walls with your memories. Free up some of the space in your phone and have your favourite photographs transformed into high-quality canvas prints from hellocanvas.co.uk. You can choose the photo, the size and the type of finish you’d like on your canvases. And don’t worry about hammering nails into walls to hang them up, you can simply lean the canvases against walls, on tables, or even place them on shelves and mantlepieces to create a stylish and trendy aesthetic without permanently impacting the interior.
Plant and pot your way to a forest
The houseplant trend is hot right now, and it’s easy to see why. There’s nothing more aesthetically pleasing than rooms that are bursting with fresh, calming and luscious greenery. From spider and aloe vera plants to peace lily and jade plants, or even tropical palms that bring a touch of the exotic into your home. You can have them in corners, draped over shelves, hanging from suspended planters, or even on your balcony and outside space. It’s a simple yet effective way to completely transform the feeling of your rented property and make it feel more like home.
Use furniture to brighten up your living spaces
Many rented properties have a magnolia or grey colour palette. It’s practical but incredibly dull. But that doesn’t mean you can’t inject some colour into your home! Play around with the colours and shades of your home furnishings to make your living areas “pop”. Use the neutral foundation colours as the perfect backdrop to bring your home to life. Brightly coloured sofas, cushions and home accessories, bright plant pots – introduce different patterns and textures to bring light and personality into your home.
And finally, rugs
There’s nothing that will cheer up a drab carpet or boring vinyl floor other than a well-placed rug. You can play with different textures and materials and essentially decorate your floors with these incredibly personal solutions. And yes, you can have more than one rug in a room!
