How to make a rental house a home: Seven top tips

Unfurnished rental properties often lack color and character to make the home as neutral as possible. In this way, the tenant is the one who gives his/her personal touch: he/she chooses the furniture and the decoration of the house so that everything is to his/her liking and according to his/her needs and creates a home.

Our opinion is that whether it is yours or not, that house will become your home for a while. So the little money you can invest in it will be to invest in comfort and well-being. At Mccomb realtors, we propose a series of tips to turn your cold and insipid rental house into a warm and functional space. A home where you can be comfortable, relax, have fun, dream and feel at home, even if it is not your own.

1. Functional and personalized hall

Choose a piece of furniture according to your needs: to store letters, helmets, shoe rack, etc. You can recycle one that you already have and give it your personal touch with vinyl or paint.

Do not forget to put a decorative mirror on the furniture. You will gain visual breadth while you can give yourself that last touch before leaving home.

2. Living room with walls that speak

The walls are those elements that we forget in a rental apartment. They seem untouchable to us and the less changes they undergo, the better. Error! There are simple steps we can take to bring them to life without messing them up.

The wall where you will place the TV cabinet can be perfect to give it a different color and tone. In this way you break the monotony of the floor.

If you are more neutral and prefer all the walls of the same base color (white or pearl gray would be ideal), bet on decorating the wall behind the sofa: collage photos of your favorite trips, some shelves that support paintings or lithographs or also, your favorite DIY artworks.

3. Well-lit dining room

Bet on a large dining table, keeping the proportions of the room. We lose the wooden and second-hand tables, which give off personality for each pore of the wood.

Do not forget about the most important thing: good lighting. Get rid of the recessed halogens in the ceiling and replace them with one or two decorative lamps (if the table exceeds 160 cm, you will probably need two lamps of about 40 cm in diameter). Place a warm or neutral led bulb and you will see how the room changes. You will earn in savings and well-being.

4. Everything at hand in the kitchen

Surely you will not find a kitchen to your liking, but with the right accessories, it will become an organized, decorative and functional kitchen at the same time. In your free spaces (under tall furniture and empty walls) take advantage of placing some shelves. They will serve you for your everyday utensils and even decorative if you have cups or bowl that you want to highlight.

5. Organize your work area

Whether you work at home or at office, you will surely take your laptop on more than one occasion. Make sure you have a place to leave it and have at hand a chest of drawers or furniture where you can leave your accessories such as the charger, case, and notebooks.

6. Relaxing bathrooms

Add indoor plants and light the mirror area well and place candles in the bathtub or shower area to achieve maximum relaxation.

7. A perfect headboard for the bedroom

If you are bored by the typical heads of a lifetime, we propose different options: A decorative paper, using old doors, or a collage of photos. And to give more warmth, use textiles and cotton or linen cushions.

Doubts? Ask your real estate broker near Paradise Valley for advices.