When it comes to decorating your home, you’re unfortunately limited in your options if you live in rented accommodation. Often, landlords don’t give renters a great deal of freedom when it comes to making design changes, with landlords often forbidding tenants from making permanent impactful decor changes such as installing shelving units or painting the walls.

Quite a lot of what you can do around your rented home will depend on what your landlord allows you to do, often, the restrictions they put on your decorating can be very limiting, so it’s best to find workarounds for how you can update your home’s interior.

So, today we’ll be discussing impactful décor changes you can make in a rented home, without any risk of an overzealous landlord trying to keep your safety deposit from you when you move out at the end of your lease.

New Window Blinds

Window blinds are one of the best areas for you to upgrade the décor of your rented home, often landlords leave up old and ugly blinds so they don’t have to replace them, which leads to you having an ugly set of blinds dominating your space. Just by replacing blinds you can change the look of the area completely.

The best way to change the blinds is to replace them with a new window blind of the same type (if there are roller blinds, get roller blinds) this should mean that you don’t need to drill any holes as brackets for blinds are often similar or if you have vertical blinds, you can buy individual replacement slats to swap out! It’s important to remember to keep the old blinds so that you can put them back up when you leave the property.

Soft Furnishings

Soft furnishings are a great way to add some style to any room of your home, without needing to make any permanent impactful decor changes and they can be used to cover up ugly areas of your home, for example: using a stylish rug to cover old carpeting your landlord doesn’t want to replace.

By using soft furnishings like rugs, sofa throws, scatter cushions or even beanbag seating you can add a splash of style to any room of your home, without doing anything to make your landlord angry at all. With a few soft furnishings paired together you can give any room a fresh and stylish look.

No Nail Hanging

One thing that drives landlords crazy, is any home changes that involve screws or nails, which has led to renters not being able to hang art or family photos and even unable to do simple things such as installing new shelving units.

Luckily, over the past few years ‘no nail’ solutions have become cheap and accessible, with small sticky pads being used in place of screws or nails, as you can add a sticky pad to your wall and then attach shelving or pictures to them. With this option available, your options for decoration opens up quite a bit as you’re now able to hang art or install shelves which can be used to house other décor pieces and trinkets.