Admit it, you’re exhausted from walking into your front door with potential tenants only to see spaces you’re currently not happy with. There’s nothing you’d love more than to walk into your rental property and be in absolute awe at the sight of something you’re proud of, but there is one issue—you’re in a rut at the moment trying to find the Best Home Owner Insurance, which means you have to keep your expenses at bare minimum. Below are simple decorating ideas that won’t leave your pockets torn at the bottom!
The Must Haves
Every furnished rental property needs pieces that drop jaws from a glance. Your entire property need not have furniture that no one can look at or even sit on. Again, it just has to have jaw-dropping qualities, not pocket-dropping. Furniture sets the foundational feel of your rental property, and these pieces are easily customizable and built upon over time.
Primary Pieces of Furniture
Dining Room and Coffee Table—generally, dining room tables give space for community and bonding time. These tables don’t have to be extravagant, however, make sure they are able to comfortably fit at least 4 chairs around them, of course for bonding purposes, right? Chunky tables are a nice addition to dining rooms and there are variations of them (chunky, minimal, rustic, urban). You can find budget-friendly tables on Amazon for under $150, or even thrift shops and Craigslist for $50 and under. Painting them for restoration purposes is always a brilliant idea as well.
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Paint
The great thing about paint is that you’re not required to slap a coat of it on the wall and call it a day. You can get creative with it! Paint allows you to experiment with colors, textures, and patterns making any wall of your rental property (or furniture piece) feel like new. If you don’t want to paint an entire room, try an accent wall. You’ll need to figure how much paint you would need for either a wall or an entire room. Either way, it shouldn’t cost you more than $200 if you’re DIY.
Vintage Pieces
Vintage pieces can range from wall decor, candle holders, frames, vases, all the way to baskets and bowls. Pieces on Etsy are as low as $20.00. Not to mention, vintage pieces are easily restorable and are great additions to rental properties because of their authentic nature.
Rearrange
Sometimes the half of it starts with changing up what your tenants will see daily- even if that means not spending any amount of money. When the scenery is always the same, things will begin to feel pretty mundane, and changing that is as simple as changing the perspective in which they’re seen.
Change the Hardware
This has a lot to do with furniture, but it has more to do with the smaller details of the furniture. For example, the cabinet and drawer handles can be swapped out for more of an accented and statement-making knob. Try experimenting with different geometric shapes to spice up the feel of your furniture, and of course, these are DIY worthy.
Rearrange Your Bookshelves
Bookshelves tend to be a prominent place where we shove everything in one section, pile up books and books. Think about it this way, just because it’s called a bookshelf doesn’t mean books are the only thing that can live on them. Bookshelves make great spaces for plants, book holders, candles, jars, and even baskets. Ditch your book collection and try to get creative with the setup of the shelf. Candles, jars, and even faux plants are found at the dollar store for less than $5-$10 each, and if you’re not a fan of fake plants, try trading those for fresh flowers every now and again.
This article has been contributed by Sha’Darian Corona-Green from Benzinga.