If you are renting an apartment and you are not yet a millionaire than you can probably associate with the following phrase: I do not live in the apartment of my dreams. I know it can be somewhat “down” to not feel at home in that stage of life, especially when your rented flat cost you hard-worked money, but there are several things you can do to make your flat feel like home. Here are 7 ways that you can create that HOME feeling within your rented flat:
1 – Bring you favourite childhood doll.
Dolls are not just something kids play with… Stuffed animals are still taking space in our grown-up apartments, and our childhood games are resting peacefully and waiting for a drunken night with our friends. So our old dolls could decorate a shelf- just to remind us that home is where your heart is.
2 – Get curtains in your favourite colour.
Adding a touch of colour to a rented apartment might seem a bit hard sometimes. If you love the colour blue, painting a wall in that colour might not be the best idea since you will have to re-paint that wall into a white or lighter colour when you leave your flat. However, you would order amazing HUGE wall-covering curtains to do the same trick. Cheaper- and comes off way easier.
3 – Get wall stickers! Wall stickers are one of the easiest ways to get that homey feeling. Simply order a sticker that means something to you and you think you would want to remember everyday. I recently came accross an Etsy store with amazing wall stickers, and fell in love with that one sticker combining two of my favourite things- India, and sleeping. The Indian phrase– Namaste, was converted into a tacky but clever joke as the wall sticker says: Nama Stay in bed.
The Etsy store where I found this item is called FunnyAndSticky, not surprising as this wall sticker is defiantly both!
