Comments on: Solutions for Renters: Bedrooms

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:32:15 +0000

Also you can take your own photos have them blown up and put on canvas to add your own personal touch. You could even have your photo blown up and put on fabric and make your own headboard.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:29:38 +0000

This is awesome. I’m about to move again so I haven’t put a lot of time into my apartment but the next one I will as I’ve learned a few tricks along the way and this blog is going to help! ONe thing I have used is vinyl lettering. You can put it up and take it right back down. Also I found a tutorial once that shows how you can add starch to fabric and then iron it directly to the wall! You can remove it later and not leave any marks. Thats an easy way to “paint” a wall or create your own headboard. I also learned that most apartments will give you “touch up” paint. I took plastic containers to the office and they gave me some of both the white trim and the off-white paint on the walls. Now I can repaint over anything I do, not to mention freshen up my kids room every now and then :)

By: Barb Amherst

Barb Amherst — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:29:10 +0000

So glad that you are doing this for renters. I particularly like the ikea units with curtains, might try it in my apartment. Hope you do more!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:13:57 +0000

A cheaper way to get the wallpaper look is to use fabric and liquid starch as your glue. It pulls of cleanly and the starch (found in the laundry section at the grocery store) washes right off. I have done this with accent walls, stripes, a backsplash in a kitchen, or cut outs instead of vinyl. You may want to wash a dark color 1st if it may bleed when wet, and use very sharp scissors to get a crisp finish. I love that I can take my fabric and reuse it another way in my next home!

I have friends who have placed wood laminate over carpet in a dining room. Large mirrors and pictures make the walls feel more like your own. Hot glue can hold up makeshift curtains that can also look very professional. Clean all the dirt that is not your own–and your own as well! Clean helps, I think. And we like to take ownership of fixes we really can do ourselves. We may not own it, but it is still home to us.