Styling Your Rental Home

Brisbane is filled with a mixture of mid-century and contemporary properties. In this blog post, we give tips on styling a rental property to make it home.

Embrace your home’s features

Brisbane is filled with mid-century homes, so there’s the chance you are renting one with fixtures and fittings that haven’t been updated for 30 years. If this is the case, don’t fight it - embrace it. Style your décor with retro items that fit the structure and appearance of the home – whether it’s 60s, 70s or 80s.

If you’re rented home is more contemporary, a newer apartment for example, make the most of the features it comes with. For these homes, lean into modern styling instead.

When styling a rented home, work with what it has – don’t try to recreate a look from scratch.

Experiment with Lighting

Whether you have grabbed yourself a property with plenty of natural lighting to spare or hardly any - there’s always possibility to make the lighting better.

Renters are not able to replace light fittings or add dimmers. However, there are plenty of less permanent options which you can add to your property.

Lamps are great ways to make an impact on the mood of a home.

A garden you can take with you

Bring life and colour to your rental home with the use of plants.

Pot plants, book shelfs, floor stands and hanging hooks are all ways you can bring plants into your home without much worry of damaging your rental – if you have permission to add the hooks.