I’ve lived in quite a few apartments now in my 26 years, ever since
college I’ve pretty much moved every year or so at the end of my lease,
and have not been lucky enough to own my own home, but I believe in
making the best of what you have. We spent all of last summer looking
for a house or townhouse to rent and after getting no where, (we live in
a very expensive area where nothing stays available for long) we
settled on our current apartment. It has lots of space and two patios,
but is older and not as nice as our last that was tiny and had no
outdoor space at all. I wasn’t thrilled but after I got my own stuff in
and started to find what worked where I began to change my mind. I’ve
learned a few tricks over the year, and here are a couple.
…and my owl collection
I’ve lived in apartments before that have the phone jack right up on
the wall which I will never use. Ben and I just have cell phones and
most people I know don’t have land lines either. My solution to this
ugly thing on the wall is to put up a vintage phone. It is a phone jack
after all! I was lucky enough to acquire a box of old phones when my
uncle moved into a house that had been abandoned for quite a while, but
they can also be found at antique stores or on Etsy.
Another thing I didn’t like about the apartment was the huge intercom
and ancient thermostat. My solution to this was to hide them a little
with lots of small frames around them, so they don’t stick out like a
sore thumb quite as bad.
White walls are boring but I don’t always mind because then I can add
whatever colors to a room that I want. Decorating should be fun and
I’m still getting things to look how I want. I’ll probably never be
done, but that’s half the fun!
Let me know if you have more ideas, cheers!
I like clusters of different sized and colored frames
