Personalize Your Apartment With These Design Tips
New styles of wallpaper, tiles and other products make it easy to update a rental space.
Laurie Allen
Home, sweet home doesn’t have to mean a 30-year mortgage and costly upkeep.
Using creativity and trend-setting techniques, local apartment dwellers are transforming their rentals into homes that feel anything but transitory. From removable wallpaper to sophisticated lighting, rental residents have a growing supply of tools to create spaces that are fresh, comfortable and uniquely theirs.
When Lindsey Rutter moved into a two-bedroom Clintonville apartment after graduating from college 10 years ago, she didn’t plan to stay so long. Today she shares the 1,000-square-foot townhouse with her husband Mitch and three cats. Rutter says people she knows are “OK with being renters” and aren’t in a hurry to buy a house, especially given student loan debt. She also sees a growing enthusiasm for “embracing and treating your rental more like it is your home.”