Interior Design for Rentals | Upgrade Your Rental Apartment With These Renter Friendly Decor Hacks
Interior Design for Rentals | Upgrade Your Rental Apartment With These Renter Friendly Decor Hacks
Are you in a rental apartment but think your rental needs an upgrade? Do you want to know how to design your rental? In this video, I go through interior design tips for rentals that I’ve used to decorate my rental apartment. Things like paint, wall storage solutions, drapes, kitchen and bathroom hardware, peel and stick wallpaper and more!
⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 – Interior Design for rental apartments
00:38 – Change your kitchen and bathroom hardware
01:47 – Use area rugs to hide bad flooring
02:40 – Change lighting to create interesting focal points
03:38 – Paint your walls
05:00 – Peel and stick wallpaper
05:47 – Create a gallery wall
06:21 – Install drapes
06:59 – Use walls for storage
🔗 Product Links Discussed In This Video:
Hardware:
Ollie Nickel Rounded Faucet: https://tinyurl.com/y4fhatmf
Wayfair Black Faucet: https://rstyle.me/+IdvN1LMLCOd3cdeDLx_vHw
Wayfair Brass Drawer Pulls: https://rstyle.me/+2jQIoNdio-ecA2pcrBtSlg
Rugs:
Joss & Main Ivory Rug: https://rstyle.me/+WS1oKtRJm55-Z9Ae_9Duzw
Wayfair Boho Rug: https://rstyle.me/+8azUmHV5JR1y45synS2EYg
Wayfair Scandinavian Rug: https://rstyle.me/+1NO_9xEX-zVRlNhyUZ1RAA
Lighting:
Wayfair Brass Lighting Fixture: https://rstyle.me/+U4aqbKHEwNP27eBY0gLazg
Amazon Brass Chandelier: https://amzn.to/3kJFlxK
Wayfair Brass and Black Ceiling Light: https://rstyle.me/+IHOXiVhhzBXeMnthFV8oHg
AllModern Sputnik Fixture: https://rstyle.me/+2zzekKoXyunCy5Xy0pXRjg
Wallpaper:
Wayfair Banana Leaf Wallpaper: https://rstyle.me/+FRkJIHUEpl_4d2WNXA1RHA
Wayfair Polka Dot Wallpaper: https://rstyle.me/+J_7LrEk9xqJZFaSNb_6cow
Drapes:
West Elm Flax Linen Drapes: https://rstyle.me/+PMPUx6L4gS7SiFaMWuRXZg
Wall Storage
CB2 Storage Shelf: https://tinyurl.com/y2p7akb5
Wayfair Allmodern Storage Shelf: https://rstyle.me/+F73qhysw5EJFDQN1rBn14Q
IKEA Besta wall cabinets: https://tinyurl.com/yyk342hy
👨💻. My Business:
➤ Ollienickel.com
Ollie Nickel is a direct to consumer bathroom fixture company specializing in selling high quality bathroom fixtures at the fraction of the price you will see in showrooms. Check us out if you are renovating your bathroom or looking for an update! We ship all over Canada and the US and shipping is free for orders over $50!
Full disclosure: I own the company!
🎥. How I Film My Videos (Tools and Equipment I LOVE!)
➤ Keyword Research: https://www.tubebuddy.com/NickTalksDesign
➤ My Camera: https://amzn.to/36Fif6j
➤ My Lens (Gives me a blurry background!): https://amzn.to/3lK1aOE
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➤ My Soft Box: https://amzn.to/3kAyKFw
🛋 Items In My Living Room Background
➤ Bar Cabinet: https://rstyle.me/+yApsdpzAcnLE-zMvNYk8_A
➤ Media Console: https://rstyle.me/+3GmZ-O6akAgZWvdAKiz1Gg
➤ Dining Room Table: https://rstyle.me/+qvdgjBPD28_qOmeM-VMO5g
➤ Dining Room Chairs: https://rstyle.me/+6VszaSlv7_6yZt_l6W6jJA
➤ Marble Coffee Table: https://rstyle.me/+3GmZ-O6akAgZWvdAKiz1Gg
➤ Teal Armchair (Color is Peacock): https://rstyle.me/+DSNrMlvMYOdXW4HM8Fqczg
➤ Panel Moulding (Metrie-Very Square): https://rstyle.me/+LbAjsRz1zHDSgUk2gfSBQQ
➤ Back wall Paint: Benjamin Moore Hale Navy
➤ Living Room Wall Paint: Benjamin Moore Simply White
➤ Trim Paint: Benjamin Moore Simply White
📺. Watch next:
➤ Top 10 Designer Approved IKEA Products – https://youtu.be/MWQfXBHWeDI
➤ IKEA DESIGN HACKS | Upgrade Your Bathroom Vanity with 3 Budget Friendly Tips – https://youtu.be/T2YmBUucMPo
➤ How To Make Your Place Look More Expensive (Budget Friendly!) -https://youtu.be/l9yloBA0XDA
👋 Heads up:
➤ My videos, descriptions, and comments may contain affiliate links! If you buy something through one of the links, you won’t pay a penny more, but I’ll get a small commission, which helps me keep the lights on! Thanks!
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I love your clock! Mind sharing where it came from?
I am binge watching your videos!! I love them! Plz keep them coming especially on apartments/ renter friendly.
Mad love for you ❤️
I love how get right to topic. You explain things very clearly and simply. Love your channel.
Yay! Thank you for this! If you don’t rent, you have no idea all the little rules that come when trying to decorate.
I currently live in an apartment where the bumpy floor is laminated,the walls have the cheapest beige wallpaper you can think (it peels off when you try to dust it!),the doorknobs are so old you have to change the whole door. The landlord doesn’t let us change the drapes,drill the walls (probably because they will fall down 😂) or put his old furniture in storage…Delightful,yes?😳 But I am hopeful that with your advice on area rugs,lighting and general decor touches it will be better. (until I move out in the summer!😉) Thank you!
Small rental house. Dark floors.. I have cool art. To highlight silhouette color
accent wall?
Hi Nick – so happy to have discovered your channel! I’ve done pretty much all of these things to my rental. I also have those hideous vertical blinds and removing them isn’t an option. I’ve used curtains to hide them in the living room and 2 bedrooms but I didn’t want to put long curtains in my kitchen. Instead, I’m using removable wallpaper to cover the slats, so when you close them, it kind of looks like a curtain panel and adds some colour.
Excellent tips, thanks! I usually change door handles and light fixtures when I move into a new rental, but I had never thought about also changing water taps and such. I should totally do that, it’d make a huge difference!
I would love a tour of your apartment. I’m sure you are asked this a million times!
If your landlord likes your changes, offer to sell it to him when you move away from there, then you don’t have to swap it all back.
My mom did a beach theme with her apartment living room, making it a "sea foam" light blue color and then added a glitter of some kind so it shimmers. The dining room, she paintes the back wall dark grey, almost black (charcoal?) and then added a sort of crosshatch design with silver, dark blue and…another blue? I can’t remember right now, been a few months since I’ve been over. She added some small hanging lights for the area as well. Then she painted her cabinets black and the fridge to make it look like it’s stainless steel, lol. I know it’s a mis-matched layout but I still find it cool that she did it anyways. My brother and I room together (and hopefully aftet four years, this will be the final one), and our place has forest green carpet (we needed a new place quick so there wasn’t time to seek out somewhere else). We decided that with a carpet of that color, trying to match anything was pointless, XD! The couch and lounge chair with ottoman match, and then we have a tan, leather arm chair that doesn’t, and then one tan and one green curtain because we were too lazy to hang up the other matching tan curtain once we found it while unpacking, XD! I’m watching interior design videos now though to get ideas for my own space when I move out this year.
Great tips! The light fixtures make a huge difference! I just can never tell between "bold statement" or "plain tacky" with some of them. 😜
Awesome tips!
I just found you. I’m so glad I did. Thanks for this (And other) videos. I don’t feel intimidated by your tips at all. ❤🇹🇹
Coming from Scandinavia (Denmark), the lights and the blinds tips are so foreign. o: When you rent an apartment here, the only light you’re getting is spot in the bathroom and something under the kitchen cabinets and there are no blinds. That be said; it really totally changes an apartment when you get all the little details like blinds/curtains and lighting so it matches with the rest of your style! Found your channel just as I moved into my mew rental and all these tips are so helpful ~
Thank you for this video about rentals!!! Most designers just post stuff about how to design grandiose houses
Love your ideas thank you💓
I’ve done the hardware thing. It can really transform a boring cabinet and make it your own.
If your landlord won’t let you paint, get white peel and stick wall paper and paint it!
Living in the Netherlands, your suggestions seem so alien. I’m allowed to do a lot more than what you mention. I could even knock down a wall if I ask my landlord nicely.
Hey! Just found your channel- I don’t suppose you know if the stick on lights from amazon are okay for rentals? Worried about removal at the end!
3M Command strips and hooks are your friend. Easy to put lots of stuff on the walls without making holes the landlord either doesn’t allow, or you’d have to fill later.
"Don’t really care for those blinds" 🤣
Please do a house tour ☺️
Ugh I have carpet in my kitchen and in a rental that should be the first thing to GO! Who puts carpet in a tiny u-shape kitchen? 🤦♀️
I love your videos so much ❤️ they’re so chill and straightforward 😁
3:53 Most rentals in Europe won’t let you paint the walls.
Peel and stuck wallpaper trashes your walls.
Cant drill into the walls to pit up pictures
This isn’t a very rent friendly video
More people rent I don’t understand why more videos for rental decorating and design isn’t as available. Great ideas!
What is the best/easiest way to install statement lighting?
Love this so much!! You break down each item so perfectly well and love how you provide photos for reference. Thank you!
We added accent walls and replaced the light fixtures and our landlord was really impressed. He says it looks like it was professionally decorated lol
First of all, love your videos, subscribed after watching the first one 🙂 It is very strange to me that apparently apartments in the US come with light fixtures. Here in Germany you’re lucky if your rental comes with a kitchen. Yes, Germans will move with their own kitchens and it is as expensive as it sounds. Also I read on a couple of comments that you’re not allowed to hang anything on the walls, is that a thing? Seems…invasive on the landlords side…
You are absolutely the BEST! Thank you so much for all your help, god knows I need it!
Hey Nick, Just a heads up, Amazon has matte gold and matte black flatware set of 20 on sale for $29.- $31. Unless you already know this then, never mind.
Very good tips!