Interior design without causing damage to your rental home, or breaking the bank:

One of the more glorious roles as a property manager is seeing a tenant’s interior designing skills come to life, when viewing the property for an inspection. Some tenants are able to apply various forms of expressive styles of living, and use of the vacant space that lay there before.

But how can a tenant design a rental property to become their home, without damaging or being costly?

• Consider your bedding attire and colours to style your space. Such as sheets, pillows, throws.
• Lighting – For mood lighting without touching fixtures of the property; consider lamps, diffusers, plug-in lighting.
• Indoor/outdoor pot plants – not only can you take these with you if you ever vacate, but you are not altering the properties condition. This would provide further perks, with indoor plants being the in design trend. Certain research has also shown they provide improvement in air quality, mental health, natural air humidification, and increased productivity.
• Stand alone mirrors – Creating a brain hack, where a room is made to feel larger and being of use in your day to day.
• Stand alone photo frames – Providing a personal touch of your favourite people/memories, or those artsy designs.
• Make use of any hooks or shelving already attached to the property upon your entry condition report. Please make sure you do not attach any heavy weighing objects that may not be suitable for those particular fixtures.
• Flooring – Temporary flooring options could include rugs, mats or other forms of stylish temporary options. That you can simply match to your design look and move when you’re feeling like a change.
• Bins – Bins may seem like the smelly, prettyless item that is needed but not loved in your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or living space. But these days, there are various types you can purchase online/in store that may be styled to compliment your room style with a little more elegance.
• Decor – Small statues/ novelty items or flower arrangements to add a pop of colour or artistry.
• Furniture – For items of a lower cost affordability, op shops and second hand stores offer a range of products. With multiple throughout Cairns.