Rental Style: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Apartment or Small Home
By Chelsey Brown and Kimberly Duran
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Rental Style, which doubles as a decor piece and handy design guide, shows readers how to decorate and organize small, rented spaces on a budget. The book will cover all home development stages from searching for a rental home to decorating and organizing it.
Many people are reluctant to design their spaces due to renter restrictions, which leaves homes bland and boring. Rental Style will erase that unease and demonstrate how you can turn a rented space into a home using temporary, creative tricks that won’t drive landlords crazy.
Rental Style will demonstrate how to “renovate” a rental through clever design and budget-friendly tips and hacks on the following topics:
- Beating the stress of finding a home
- Items to switch out when moving into a rental
- Furniture to invest in when living in a small home
- Decorating to maximize small spaces
- Myths many renters believe
- Removable products meant for renters
- Incorporating more seating into your smaller home
- Combating limited storage
- Ways to “renovate” a rental kitchen
- Hosting in a very small home
- And more!
The budget and time-friendly tools, tips, and advice in this book will give readers the ability to stand out among the rest and revamp their rental spaces!
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Rental Style - Chelsey Brown
Text copyright © 2020 by Chelsey Brown
Foreword copyright © 2020 by Kimberly Duran
Pages i and 162 © Getty
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Cover design by Daniel Brount
Cover photo credits: Chelsey Brown, Natalia Rowe, and Nicole Blackmon
Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-5813-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-5814-8
Printed in China
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
FINDING A HOME
MOVING IN
ENTRYWAY OR HALLWAY
LIVING ROOM
KITCHEN
BEDROOM
BATHROOM
STORAGE
HOSTING
GO-TO RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTO CREDITS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX
FOREWORD
From my early twenties through to my early thirties, I lived in about fifteen different rental properties. From a tiny bed shoehorned into what could only be described as a closet in a shared house in Denver to a fifty-square-foot flat four stories up at the top of a Victorian house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an open-plan but incredibly bland apartment in a tiny town in Wisconsin, I’ve experienced my fair share of shifty landlords, swirly patterned carpet, and bathrooms so small you had to sit sideways.
No matter what the situation, however, I always felt strongly about making whatever roof I had over my head a home. I remember having a print of Flaming June by Frederic Lord Leighton in an ornate gold frame that I carted around with me to each and every one of those rental homes through the entirety of the nineties, believing, if nothing else, it would make the space feel more like my own.
Every apartment became a learning curve with new challenges to overcome. Little by little, I learned a few tricks to make a space more comfortable, to create a sanctuary that I was happy to come home to. Soon, friends asked me to help them decorate their own rentals, and I even had the odd landlord ask me for advice to make their rentals more appealing to the market after seeing what I had done to transform the ones I’d lived in.
Two decades on, and I’ve left the United States for England, where I own my home—but the lessons I learned while apartment-dwelling have never left me. Houses here are, on average, much smaller than in the United States, and so I’ve had to get creative all over again with whatever space I have available to me.
I am not a trained interior designer, and I’m guessing if you are reading this book, then you may not be either. The truth is, armed with a bit of knowledge, I believe anyone can be their own designer and transform just about any property into a comfortable, personality-filled space (without losing your deposit!).
I’ve been blessed to have my home featured in four interior design books, twenty different magazines across the world. I’ve also been asked to give talks and interviews on interiors to thousands of people at events, on national radio, and podcasts.