DIY Interior Design

Renting a room or an apartment (especially if equipped) often means having to forgot an aesthetic that makes our environment and a feature that would be right for us instead. Because you know, permanently change a house that is a property of others while cost us more for the benefit of owners, but often these changes are not something pleasant. In most cases then, the obligation of the lease, you return the apartment just as he found means any permanent change then it is very risky and costly, because if we leave that apartment, we should also pay costs to return as before. This article will discuss some tips, perhaps obvious, but it is good to keep in mind, to change and make it functional for us a house to rent at will, without intervening in a permanent and spending too little.

Changeable elements in a rented house

The elements that you cannot make some changes in a permanent home for rent are:

* Floor
* Walls
* Tiles
* The health
* Furniture
* The provision of certain environments
* Tissue

You can then make changes to almost all the elements that might also be permanently altered: only change modes.

Let’s start from bottom: change the floor

To change the appearance of a floor that just do not like, there are two main ways:

* Use large rugs
* Purchase and implement interlocking flooring

The first solution is effective when applied to large portions of free floor, which to our eyes when they are naked, are unpleasant. Obviously this is not an extensible solution to the entire floor of the house, because the presence of furniture, splashes of water and other obstacles, does not allow the use of carpets in all rooms; also be borne in mind that carpets get dirty more easily to a floor and should be vacuumed and cleaned frequently.

The second approach instead looks like what you choose for the entire floor of the house: some floors (especially laminate), available in different colors, shadings and effects, divided into planks are sold, to be laid using a simple mechanism Snap. These floors are also quite cheap and allow you to change all aspects of the house.

However, remember that: to apply the flooring interlocking must take advantage of the free surfaces and then move from time to time all the furniture in every room, the boards that they approach the sides of the perimeter areas will be cut to size, at the time of any leave the house, the floor will be removed, but simple operation that will require moving the furniture again.

Change the walls and tiles

Paint the walls with colors, tones and effects suitable to our taste are the ideal solution. But in most cases is not possible in a rented house, for reasons already explained. However, there are some methods to change the overall view of a wall, with solutions that can be easily removed when leaving the house:

* You can hang pictures, mirrors and wall lights. When we have large portions of the wall appear to be free and there remains, we can fill and change the view at a glance hanging pictures with colors, designs and patterns that we like, too large, or mirrors with modular forms with Special to hang in series, forming the play of light and singular forms, we can then integrate our changes with the application of light wall sconce, battery or on the pictures to illuminate the paintings themselves and to create atmospheres especially evening
* If the wall is made of tiles, we can apply the decoration created specifically for the purpose: it is rubbery shapes that attach and detach with a simple gesture and that create happiness. You can choose the same geometric designs and apply them to the tiles (eg, a yes and two no), or choose different designs. These decorations should be changed after a few months, attracting much since the powder
* You can decorate the wall with a maxi-making decoupage designs, complete with no attachment steps, once we leave the apartment, you can remove using a sponge and hot water
* We can apply decorations or stickers stakers wall, even in large format, then easily detach
* Finally we can apply laminate panels in bright colors also portions of the wall-free, easily detachable, you need to do this is in the local dealer and do-it-yourself
* You can also apply a wallpaper to the wall that we like, even if its removal will be more difficult, but certainly not impossible

Within environments: furniture and health

When we are renting an apartment already furnished, we cannot surrender to the existence of furniture that may not be to our liking. But even here there are ways to change a bit ‘appearance:

* Make a decoupage without applying then the fixative transparent (so you can then remove with a sponge and hot water), with designs and colors that can graceful appearance of this furniture so demeaning
* Apply decorative stickers with pleasing designs and colors (there are many on the market for furniture decoration with flowers and plants), then easily detach
* The same applications can be attacked and then easily detached even the health of the bath
* The kitchen counters are covered with tarpaulins applied with adhesive tape not too strong, so it’s easy to remove
* The refrigerator and other furniture with metal components can be welcomed by the application of magnets of shapes, colors and sizes may vary a lot; in gift shops and household goods if they are of all types.

Avoid the holes in the wall

Also practice small holes in the wall to hang nails, or worse still to apply screws and bolts with the drill, can be a problem for the homeowner. Here are some solutions to avoid them usually when you need them:

* Use double-sided tape for paintings, mirrors and lights: they choose light and not too large
* Use the bathroom accessories to be placed on the floor instead of wall sweepers for water, toilet paper holders, towel
* Use adhesive hangers or, better still, vacuum dryer, towels, aprons, kitchen or bathroom chee
* Use coat to be applied without holes, the gates between an environment and the other: you only support the top sash and they are very functional because they have many hooks that you can adjust the distance
* Use in the shower compartment (for shampoo, soap, etc.) to apply suction to the wall or wall as a crutch to the pipe or the shower curtain that
* In the bath glove use wooden support at the sides of the tank
* Prefer small storage drawers, even with wheels, shelves to be applied to the wall in the kitchen
* Choose a shelf for the TV rather than the suspenders from the wall. Libraries, top of the kitchen cabinets (provided at right) may be good

If we cannot just do without holes in the wall, remember that when leaving the apartment, we can fill the holes with putty, using a spatula, and then repainting with the right color affected areas by the operation.

Separate environments without masonry

If we want to separate the sleeping area from the area, for example in a day or open space in a studio, or do we want to separate the kitchen from the rest of your stay, we want to create a corner or work-study private and isolated from the rest, there are solutions that permit without intervening with masonry and without further action permanent. Application of curtains covering the view but allow light through, if necessary to remove dividers, bookshelves, dual function can fulfill this task.

Create a new room without building walls

If the house has large environments and want to get inside of these real rooms to be assigned to specific functions, but obviously we cannot build walls because we are always in a rented house, there is a functional solution, simple and easily Removable, which requires no authorization by the municipality. It ClicBloc brick glass block, available in various colors and shapes, creating curved walls also be applied without using glue or drill, but only with the metal rails and an interlocking mechanism.

So we can get a wardrobe from a large bedroom, a corner from the gym room, one closet to store the materials for cleaning the great hall.

Features & Technology: Internet and Security Systems

We rented a room in an apartment where the landlord does not allow us the connection to the telephone network, but we desperately need internet for work and / or study, as well as our neighbors room. To avoid connection to the fixed telephone network and also unnecessary holes in the wall to pass long wires from one room to another, there are companies that provide only one data line, easy to install and even cancel, and that damage included wi-fi modem-routers, which allow you to connect multiple computers to the internet without using wires.

Alternatively, we can search through the offerings of mobile operators, if we have a phone with GPRS or above: properly connected to the PC, it could serve as a modem to connect us to the Internet, without the application of wireless home no connection to the fixed telephone network.

If then the apartment we rented, we keep valuables and do not want to leave them unattended, we can equip your home burglar alarm systems and video surveillance completely wireless, which do not require masonry work for installation or use wires for connections. To learn more, see the articles on video surveillance systems and home burglar alarms on this site.

Renew fabrics, lamps and plants

Unless you can make aesthetic changes that have been spoken before, or when we want to incorporate the changes made and customize even further “our” home, you can visually renew the environment with the help of fabrics and with ‘ use of ornamental lamps to change the colors, especially at night.

Matching curtains, upholstery, pillows, bedspreads, tablecloths, towels, rugs, color shades similar and complementary, or with two alternating contrasting colors, totally changes the look of a room and allows you to completely change the colors and effects at any moment, if for example we have combined the tissues of a room with warm hues of yellow and orange, we can change everything at one point instead combining fabrics blue and green, or lilac and purple.

And if the walls are lined with sad wallpaper, the furniture is dark and gloomy and change the fabric is not enough to renew the environment, you can use floor lamps or table that does not require holes in the wall and above create colors and atmospheres: soft lighting, shadows red, green, orange, blue, reflections and light give a special touch and intimate environments, in agreement with fabrics and accessories, especially at night, but in poorly achieved by light natural daylight.

Corners or even fill shelves with indoor plants, perhaps with colorful blooms can be a good way to customize your home and give her joy.

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