Interior Red Lion Hotels 2011

Have a surplus of IKEA or accent tables that look cheap, not Is your home decor 50% or more modern furniture pieces? Take inventory of the living room furniture you have on-hand. Make the best feature in a room the focal point for laying our your living room.

Is the living room especially bright, has a great view or feature you want to accentuate? Next, take stock of the apartment's best features. This gives you a lot of light and a blank slate to play with, plus it's easy to patch and fill in holes from picture or wall art hangings. If you don't want to paint yourself or think a personalized color will be too much to deal with upon move-out (i.e., too much of a drag to repaint), see if the apartment can be delivered white.

Most apartments are repainted or offered to be repainted upon signing a new lease. Begin with the bones. This article focuses on topical fixes that renters can make all in a day's shopping, and they can take with them if / when they move. Depending on your landlord's tolerance and the terms of your lease, there are many simple, inexpensive decorative fixes you can make to give your apartment a renovated, personalized and stylized look. Your apartment might not be your dream home, but that doesn't mean you have to live in mediocre style.

Renters will live with so-so kitchen and bath fixtures, tiles and cabinetry and it's rare you'll hear about a tenant re-varnishing or painting their floors (although my friend in NYC went for it!).  It's no surprise most renters don't want to spend extra money upgrading rental apartments that they will eventually move from.