Category: Home Decor
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27 Rental Friendly Apartment Hacks That Don’t Break Your Lease
My first apartment lease had a clause about “nail holes exceeding 1/4 inch,” and I spent about four months afraid to hang a single picture. I leaned a mirror against the wall, stacked books on the floor as a nightstand, and told myself it was a “minimalist look.” It was not. It was a landlord-beige…
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26 Multi-Functional Furniture Ideas for Small Apartments
Space-saving furniture that actually earns its footprint, tested the hard way. My first real apartment was 410 square feet, and for the first four months I walked sideways past my own sofa. I had bought a “cute” console table for the entryway that stuck out just far enough to catch my hip every single morning.…
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24 Studio Apartment Layout Ideas for Every Floor Plan
For the first four months in my 410-square-foot studio, my bed was pushed against the one wall that made sense on paper and made zero sense in real life. Every morning I climbed over the foot of it to reach the kitchen, and every night I ate dinner on that same bed because the “dining…
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25 Small Apartment Decorating Ideas That Actually Make a Tiny Space Feel Bigger
I lived in a 460-square-foot one-bedroom for three years before I figured out that most “small space” advice is written by people who have never actually measured their own apartment. A lot of it is just “declutter!” and “use mirrors!” repeated in different fonts. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn’t, or it…