Rental Style

Name: Rental Style
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781510758131
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The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Apartment or Small Home

By Chelsey Brown

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Rental Style by Chelsey Brown is a practical guide for renters who want to personalise and organise their small rented spaces without breaking the bank. It covers the entire rental journey, from finding the right home to creatively decorating and organising on a budget while respecting landlord restrictions. The book offers clever, temporary design hacks and budget-friendly tips, including creating the illusion of more space, decorating coffee tables and sofas, styling narrow entryways, and hanging art without nails.
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Ideal for renters looking to personalise and optimise their living space on a budget without permanent alterations. Perfect for anyone living in small apartments or temporary homes who desires stylish, functional decorating advice tailored to rental restrictions.

Rental Style , which doubles as a decor piece and handy design guide, shows readers how to decorate and organise small, rented spaces on a budget. The book will cover all home development stages from searching for a rental home to decorating and organising it.

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Rental Style, which doubles as a decor piece and handy design guide, shows readers how to decorate and organise small, rented spaces on a budget. The book covers all home development stages from searching for a rental home to decorating and organising it.

Many people are reluctant to design their spaces due to renter restrictions, leaving homes bland and boring. Rental Style will erase that unease and demonstrate that you can turn a rented space into a home using temporary, creative tricks that won't drive landlords crazy.

Rental Style will demonstrate how to 'renovate' a rental through clever design and budget-friendly tips on the following topics:

Finding a home
Items to invest in and not to invest in for the home
Items to switch out when moving into a rental
Myths most renters believe
Designing a narrow entryway
Install wainscoting in a rental
Tricking the eye into believing a space is larger than it is
Guidelines for decorating a coffee table
Styling your sofa
Incorporating seating into a small room
Decorating blank walls
Alternatives to using nails to hang art
And more!

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Critics praise Rental Style for its comprehensive advice and stylish yet reversible ideas that protect renters' deposits. Adrienne Breaux of Apartment Therapy highlights its practical tips for every stage of renting, while Chaya Krinsky from TOV Furniture emphasises its empowering message that renters can create homes they are proud of. Readers appreciate the book’s realistic photos and accessible, budget-conscious guidance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510758131

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Sky Pony Press

Illustration: 100 color photographs

Contributors:

Foreword by Kimberly Duran

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 961g

Pages: 176

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Chelsey Brown Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Chelsey Brown is an interior decorator living in Manhattan. Chelsey started her blog, City Chic Decor, when sherealized how little information there was on decorating and designing rented spaces. Soon after starting the blog, she was designing and decorating apartments all over New York City and the United States. Chelsey's designs, writing, and photography have been featured in countless publications, print magazines, and online resources such as the Today Show, Small Space Makeovers Magazine, Flea Market Style Magazine, Apartment Therapy, The Everygirl, The Kitchn, and Inspired By This. Additionally, Chelsey has been nominated for four awards and won Interior Decorating Blog of the Year and Excellence in Affordable E-Design Services by Build magazine. She has also collaborated with big-name brands such as Pier 1 Imports, HomeGoods, Sleep Number, Apt2B, Wayfair, Mr. Coffee, and StreetEasy.