My Lease Prevents Me From Hanging Anything on the Walls—Here's How I Made Do
This writer learned to love living with blank walls—thanks to some creative thinking.
By
Susanne Fowler
Alice Morgan
We like to think of our homes as spaces that are within our control. But when I first moved to my current city (London), I signed an apartment lease that stipulated I couldn't hang
anything on the freshly painted late-Victorian walls. No problem, I thought, since I didn’t plan on staying beyond a year.
Now, seven years later and still in the same “flat,” I’ve had to find creative ways to showcase inspiring, mood-lifting colors and images without leaving divots in the 19th-century plaster.