How To Decorate Rental Home Walls

Renting homes is a pain. You can’t paint, you can’t drill to hang things, and the walls will always be an unsettling shade of “vanilla.” Unless you like subconsciously comparing your home to a mental ward, you have to find ways to decorate it.

4. Buy art. $$$$

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Galleries will have something for you. But anyone who is renting is probably not looking for the most expensive option for wall decoration.

3. Stick-on Wallpaper $$$

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They come in sheets, and if you get the right pattern, they overlap beautifully. But they are priced by the square foot, and one wall can easily take three roles to cover, especially if you were gifted with high ceilings. Applying them is a big project as light will reflect any wrinkles or bubbles, and if you have a humid home, they might not stick as long as you'd like.

2. Tapestries $$

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Again, they charged by the size. But unlike stick-on wallpaper, tapestries are removable, so you don't need to shell out when your lease is up. The popular mandala variety adds a bohemian flair to any room, but mandalas aren't the mandatory print. Websites like society6 and etsy bring small-scale artists' work to all sorts of sized canvases and decorative cloths.

1. Washi Tape $

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One $2 roll can be used to decorate an entire wall. You need a touch of creativity to utilize washi tape effectively, but with craft collection sites like pinterest overflowing with designs, turning your insane asylum rental into a stylized representation of you is a cinch!