There is a wide range of simple and effective arrangements to decorate your home when you are a tenant and when it is not possible to carry out major transformation work. Here are 10 ideas to help you beautify your flat when you let it.
1. Cover old tiling
To update an old bathroom or kitchen tile, you can consider repainting the tiles with a suitable paint, or cover them, in the case of a splashback. In fact, there are easy-to-apply adhesive splashbacks that can give your kitchen a facelift in no time.
2. Decorate with wallpaper
In order to embellish and give charm to your interior, using wallpaper with trendy patterns could be an interesting choice. In fact, you can opt for non-woven or repositionable wallpapers that will be easier for you to remove when leaving, if your landlord doesn’t like it. To avoid overloading the decoration, it’s better to use ofthis type of wallpaper on one wall only.
3. Apply another floor covering
Carpet, laminate or seagrass flooring: depending on the budget and the atmosphere you can to give, many solutions exist to give an upgrade to your flooring. PVC floors are very practical because they are very easy to install, cheap, can imitate many materials and can be removed easily if needed.
4. Prefer furniture that don’t require wall fixing
Manufacturers are now increasingly offering more modular furniture that can suit tenant needs better. This makes it easier to find furniture that does not require drilling through the walls, like for example column bookcases.
5. Install designer ceiling lights to upgrade your interior
The choice of lighting is important to highlight a decoration and personalize an interior, so do not neglect it. An XXL floor lamp or pendant lamp will give a design touch and will be perfect in a rental accommodation, because you can take it with you when you leave.
6. Hang the decoration to the walls…
Sometimes you can be allowed to make holes in the walls to hang frames, mirrors or shelves. However, to recover the deposit, it will be necessary to reseal them before leaving and to ensure that they do not leave any trace.
7. … Or display it on the ground
For a more artsy spirit, you can display the frames on the ground, against a wall. It’s also possible to create pretty compositions, by varying the sizes and combining them with other elements such as vases, books or works of art.
Same for the mirrors. Indeed, a large floor mirror has great advantages in a room, apart from not having to drill through the walls. It gives a sensation of space and brightens the room. Also consider putting the smallest mirrors on the furniture, rather than attaching them to the walls.
8. Display carpets to hide a floor and give a comfy touch
If you don’t like your floor but d’ont have the budget or don’t want to replace it, a large carpet is the ideal accessory to change the look of a room in the blink of an eye. It hides what you want to hide very easily! It’s also great to warm the atmosphere of your interior.
9. Think about plants and flowers
It’s always very pleasant to have plants and pretty bouquets of seasonal flowers in a home. Also think of dried flowers, which are particularly trendy at the moment and require no maintenance.
11. Do not skimp on curtains, cushions and throws
Whether on a bed, sofa, armchairs, chairs or even on the floor, cushions, throws and blankets actively participate in the decoration of a space. By choosing some with trendy decorative patterns, they will easily personalize and warm up the atmosphere and also create a cocooning vibe.