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Help improving old apartment

  • 14-04-2013 4:26pm
    #1
    Sala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, need some help with ideas for sprucing up an old apartment cheaply. We rent and haven't a lot of funds to spend. The flat is old, with old furnishings and I don't want to ask for lots off landlord in case they up the rent, although it could do with a paint, new carpets and a whole new kitchen!

    Not much I can do with kitchen or bathroom, but would love to make the living area look good. The walls are kind of magnolia, the carpets beige (but not that lovely smart looking beige, they are worn and fairly drab) black leather couches beige horrible curtains and old steel window frames.

    I put a couple of paintings on the walls, a plant on the window sill, a bookshelf, red cushions on the couches but it still looks drab and boring and fairly shabby. Any ideas on how I can cheaply spruce with the place! I don't mind putting in some elbow grease and making stuff myself but I'm not terribly creative and I need some ideas.


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  • #2
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Ask the landlord about them repainting it and putting down carpet he/she can offset it against tax. As a landlord myself I never mind doing this when a tenant asks. Shows they are houseproud and will look after the place. They can only say no.. Nothing to lose.

    If you don't want to go near the landlord, then, make changes that are not permanent, and you can take with you. For the carpet, maybe get a nice big rug, put it partly under the furniture and it will almost look like carpet. Like this
    http://pinsforyourhome.com/2013/02/11/bedroom-decorating-ideas-bedroom-decorating-ideas/

    Ikea have lots of rugs.

    A couple of well placed small lamps can make a big difference to how homely a place feels. Keep the watts as low as you can on them.


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