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From House to Home
Simple Ways to Add Personality to Your Rental Space.
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Transform your rental into a home with temporary, bond-friendly decor. You can add personality and style without making permanent changes.
Key strategies include:
- Using removable wall decor like peel-and-stick wallpaper and framed art.
- Incorporating colour with soft furnishings, rugs, and furniture covers.
- Engaging in DIY projects, adding indoor plants, and using stylish storage.
These simple, affordable tips help you express your style and create a space you love, ensuring you can easily remove everything when you move out.
Use removable wall decor
Few things add vibrancy to a room more than artworks. Incorporate your favourite pieces into your rental property and it will soon feel like home.
Incorporate colour through furniture and soft furnishings
Available in a dizzying array of colours, patterns and styles, furniture covers are an inexpensive way of injecting personality into a room.
DIY home decor projects to customise your space
These light box lamps can be an easy DIY project that injects a touch of whimsy or personalisation to an otherwise blank canvas bedroom.
Bring the outdoors in with plants
House plants are a brilliant way of uplifting any space, plus they can be easily moved when it’s time to move on.
Stylish storage solutions for a tidy, personalised space
Temporary wallpaper and wall murals for big impact
Easy to install and remove, vinyl wall murals are a great way of transforming any bedroom into a unique and quirky expression of your own style.
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