10 Tips to Make Your Rental Organized and Homey
These 10 tips will help keep your rental organized and make it feel very homey!
I’ve always loved organizing my home. Ever since I was a little girl, I loved organization.
As much as I’ve always kept my house in order, organization becomes an absolute necessity when you are living in a small apartment.
My pied-a-terre is no exception.
Let me show you 10 tips to make your small rental apartment more organized and feel more homey.
Tips to Make Your Rental Feel Organized & Cozy
The bedroom is my apartment is quite small. Not much room for bedside tables even.
Here is the first tip:
#1 – Use a small side table for a bedside table
We always need room for extra storage. The bed frame I have only needs a mattress, not a boxspring, so there is a lot of height for handy storage bins.
#2 – Use under the bed for storage
For me to fit everything into my small bedroom closet, the closet doors need to remain open. I hang belts over the closet doors and I need a stool to access the very top shelves. I basically make it into a walk-in closet even though it isn’t.
The foot stool always stays in front for easy access.
And belts and scarves hang on an over-the-door hook.
You now have easy access to everything in your closet without needing to close the doors.
#3 – Make your small closet into a walk-in closet by keeping the doors open
By adding hooks to this metal piece, it easily transforms into a necklace organizer.
I used S hooks and some are just bent paperclips. It keeps all my necklaces easy to access.
#4 – Organize jewelry on a wall
The bedroom door never seems to stay open. I couldn’t find anything to prop it open so I just keep my cute rain boots in front.
#5 – Use everyday items to serve a purpose (like boots keeping a door open)
Have a pink bathroom? Just embrace it. White accessories like towels are the best for coloured bathrooms.
I found this adorable ruffled shower curtain at Pottery Barn and towels and accessories at Home Sense.
#6 – Add white accessories to coloured bathrooms
This Ikea rolling caddy is perfect for holding make-up and hair stuff. I keep it in the hallway in front of the bathroom for extra storage.
#7 – Use a rolling caddy for more bathroom storage
This small closet was a broom closet. I needed more storage space so I relocated the broom to the closet by the front door and bought this $20 metal shelf.
Now there is a ton of space for more bathroom products and towels.
#8 – Buy inexpensive shelving for closets
I have done this in every apartment I’ve ever rented. I put contact paper in all the cupboards and drawers.
It’s time consuming but makes my apartment feel more like a home and much cleaner.
#9 – Use contact paper in drawers and cupboards.
For now I’ve been in my pied-à-terre for four months and will be moving soon into a house I just bought (yippee!) but I fully unpacked and decorated it to make it feel like a home.
So, if your place is a temporary rental space, then I would put extra stuff you don’t need right away in storage like seasonal clothes etc.
My last tip…
#10 – Unpack and decorate your rental to make it feel like home
I hope these homey tips help with you moving into your rental.
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I love small spaces. I keep only what I truly love around me. I love the coziness of it. You’ve done a great job. Can’t wait to see your new house!
Brenda
Thanks Brenda. It really makes you purge which I love!
Hugs, Jamie
Congratulations on buying your new home, Jamie!!! It will be a wonderful feeling to call it your own. Cheers, Ardith
Thanks so much, Ardith.
Hugs, Jamie
Great tips and it is obvious that you would make anywhere you call home beautiful. Pinned to my Organization/Storage board. Congratulations on your new home purchase. I look forward to seeing more.
Thanks so much, Elizabeth! It’s very exciting.
Hugs, Jamie
Hi, I’m sorry that I missed it, but why did you move, again? What happened to your ’80s home that was so amazing?
Hi Wilma, I’m going through a divorce so I recently just bought a new house that I’m renovating.
Hugs, Jamie