10 Clever DIY Decor Ideas for Your Rental Room

Contrary to what people think, you can call a room rental your home with the right look and feel. And how do you achieve that? By experimenting with different exciting decor ideas, of course! And don’t worry, with a few resources at your disposal, you’ll be more than capable of decorating your rental room without outside help! Furthermore, you won’t even have to fret about rental laws and landlord laws. 

To make your job easier, we’ve put together a list of 10 DIY decor ideas that will compel you to call your rental room a home away from home.

1. Set up floating shelves

You can use floating shelves to display an array of decorative objects and mementos in your room rental. The ideal thing to do is to use staggered shelves that give the display items a one-of-a-kind look. The best materials for the shelves would be metal or wood, and you can save yourself the trouble of drilling extra holes in your rented walls.

2. Personalize your furniture pieces

Add furniture pieces to your room for rent that give you a sense of home and ownership and turn it into a bright place of solace and comfort. These furniture pieces will help you lose sight of the room finishes or features you can do nothing about

3. Tile up your bathroom

Another quick way to decorate your rental room is to use peel-and-stick tiles in your bathroom since adding actual patterned tiles would be negatory from your landlord. As the name suggests, they’re easy to stick and take off whenever the need arises. Perhaps you can select a small area, like the one above the sink, to keep costs to a minimum.

4. Add stunning drapes

Drapes further enhance a room’s appearance and add to its beauty. Add drapes along a wall or walls in your room for rent, and you’ll find that you don’t need wallpaper or paint to bring out its persona. An additional advantage of adding drapes to walls is the illusion that there might be windows behind the curtains instead of blank walls. 

5. Install faux built-in storage

At times, rental properties have beautiful built-in spaces excellent for storing things. If your room rental doesn’t have one, set up a false storage unit or bookcase that extends almost to the ceiling. If your landlord permits it, you can even add moldings around the shelf tops to exhibit the built-in look. 

6. Add a furniture piece that serves dual purposes

Buy a daybed that serves as a sofa in the morning and a guest-bed at night. Include tons of pillows for back support, and you’re good to go! You can lie back and read a book or even watch TV. If you have friends or family coming over, they can get a good night’s sleep on the bed. Have a basket nearby with extra linens so that it’s easier to transform the sofa into a bed.

7. Put up some wall art

Decorating your rental room, particularly when it’s within a budget, will need a little creativity, more so because of the restrictions imposed by your landlord. Needless to say, you’d want your deposit money to be returned when you move to another place. So, with that in mind, it’s advisable to put up some black-and-white prints on your room wall and stick them up with pink washi tape. When all-black images are combined with lighter shades, they enhance the look of a room. 

8. Enhance room decor with color

Painting the walls may not be a solution due to the rules imposed by your landlord. But painting your furniture pieces might be a great way not just to add a dash of color but also to brighten up the place and make it more warm and welcoming. You could paint your dresser or your bed frame with a color that appeals to you and your senses. This could give you other ideas to beautify your room rental. You could also use the same colors on fabrics and accessories in the room for a more coordinated look. 

9. Enhance the room floors with rugs

When you get a room for rent, there are specific finishes that you can’t do anything about, like the floor, even if the design or the carpet doesn’t work well for you. In such a situation, you can add extra-large area rugs or multiple-layered rugs that go well with the furniture pieces and other accessories in your room and give it a well-coordinated look. It not only decorates the room rental but is also economical.

10. Add multiple throw pillows

Your room rental might have white or beige walls, which doesn’t exactly liven it up. Nonetheless, sometimes making tiny changes can transform a place from dull to vibrant. Add tons of colorful throw pillows. Another interesting piece of advice is to buy the pillow covers and pillow forms separately. Use the new pillow covers on the new forms and store away the old covers.

So, are you stoked to start decorating your room rental with the ideas that we’ve shared? We’re sure you are! We wish you good luck and believe that your rental room will turn into a gorgeous haven once you’ve implemented the DIY ideas highlighted here!