DIY Home Ideas for Renters (Practical & Cheap)

DIY home ideas for renters. Inspiring DIY home projects. Here are practical, non-marking and cheap DIY home ideas 2022.

Don’t want to spend a lot of money on furniture and decoration because you live in a rented house? Do you have a difficult host? Can’t change the wall color or hang something on the wall? Even if you live in a rented home, you can customize your home without spending a fortune or risking your deposit! In this article, you will find practical and cheap DIY home ideas that will inspire you to decorate your rental apartment. Here are portable, non-marking and economical DIY home ideas for renters.

DIY Home Ideas 2022

1. Build Your Own Table and Coffee Table

Nowadays, when the idea of free design is in fashion, you don’t have to buy your furniture as a set anymore. Buying a “dining room set” or “seating set” means you’re spending a fortune on unnecessary furniture, including furniture that you won’t use, and that probably doesn’t fit your living room size. Moreover, if you have rented a house and do not want to spend money on a temporary house, you will probably buy cheap and poor quality furniture sets. There’s no need for that! By choosing your furniture from different stores, second-hand shops and your old furniture, you can have much more suitable and creative furnitures for your home.

For example, you can design a dining table and coffee table for your living room that you can use in other homes by making changes on it. Why spend money on furniture that you can simply make yourself? In this way, you will have a table and coffee table that is much cheaper, original, meets your needs and you will not have to change it when moving. What you need to do for this;

1. Finding objects from your home, if any, that you can use as table and coffee table tops from vintage shops. This could be an old door, cabinet, pallet or vintage suitcase. As long as it is a piece that reflects the style of your living room.
2. Buying legs in a style that fits your table and coffee table top. You can buy table and coffee table legs from various DIY stores or even online.

Note: If you have a small living room, for a more functional use, you can design the underside of your coffee table as a section or storage area where you can put your magazines. Or you can add drawers to the underside of your desk to store your catering services.

2. Paint and Match Your Old Furniture

Here we are, the most popular method between practical DIY home ideas… Why buy a furniture set for a rental house where you don’t know how long you will be sitting when it is fashionable to use different pieces of furniture together? Instead, you can create a much cheaper and creative furniture set by purchasing furniture that fits your budget separately. How Does?

1. Collect furniture pieces for your home that you like and fit your budget. For this, you can visit cheap furniture stores, spot dealers, vintage and antique stores. Just be careful not to choose huge and exaggerated pieces. The parts you choose should be compatible with each other in proportion.
2. Paint the pieces you find a color of your choice. Don’t be afraid to choose a bold color you love because you can repaint your furniture however you want when you move into a new home or get bored with the same color.
3. If you have purchased an upholstered sofa or chair, you can reupholster it with a patterned or plain fabric that you like. Like I said, don’t be too detailed. Otherwise, it may be expensive because of the lining. 🙂

3. Build your own walls

Do you have an open-plan lounge? You can have your living room and dining room together, or you can have an open kitchen. Maybe even your bed and living space are together in a studio apartment. Maybe you want to reserve a private area for yourself in the living room or other common room that you share with your family or friends. There is no need to build a wall for privacy, to hide clutter or just to define a separate personal space for yourself! You can design a screen yourself. What you need to do for this;

1. Join them together with hinges by making rectangular frames. (You can also get help from a carpenter for this.)
2. Cover the frames using a material of your choice. The way you cover is entirely up to your creativity. You can use colorfully painted plywood, fabrics with wonderful patterns, or tulle curtains that transmit light. As long as it suits the style of your home.

Note: If you want, you can move the screen as you wish by mounting small wheels on the feet.

4. Use Temporary Wallpaper on Your Walls

You can easily apply removable wallpapers, which can be applied to many surfaces, to the surface you want without any external support. Moreover, it is possible to use these long-lasting wallpapers many times by removing them whenever you want and sticking them on different surfaces.

Thanks to this miraculous material that does not leave marks or stains on your walls, you can add color and style to your walls without disturbing your relationship with your host. If you do not want to paint the walls of your rental home, you can try using temporary wallpapers with solid color or patterned options. You can even make a difference in your spaces by printing the picture you want as a 3D wallpaper in the dimensions you want and applying it to your wall.

5. Cover Your Walls with Large-Scale Art

If you do not want to cover the whole room with wallpaper, if it is costly to cover an entire wall, or if it seems difficult to apply wallpaper yourself; use giant frames on your walls as a creative option! Of course, you don’t have to apply this to all your walls. Maybe even just to create a focal point in your living room. What you need to do for this;

1. Buy mdf panels in the sizes you want from a carpenter.
2. Cut the wallpaper of your choice to the size of your panels. Adhere neatly using a wallpaper brush and allow to dry by removing air bubbles with a spatula.
3. Buy ready-made frames in the size of your panels, or make your own decorative frame and frame your panels by spray painting them in the color of your choice.
4. And hang your frames on the wall! You can fix your giant frames to the wall with a strong non-marking tape.

6. Create Your Own Custom Rug

Rugs can be shockingly expensive, making them one of the best subjects for DIY home projects. Also, if you live in a rented house or stay in a temporary home, the carpet you bought for that much money probably doesn’t fit in your new home when you move. Not to mention that there are square meters of space to lay carpets or rugs in your home.

In this case, there is only one thing to do: Make your own carpet! It is easy to change when you are bored, and if there are children at home, the stains that may occur on the carpet bother you less. Moreover, there are DIY carpet samples that are much more creative and stylish than the carpets on the market.

For example, you can make a patchwork rug by sewing pieces of different colors and patterns such as denim, rugs, hand-knitted, upholstery fabrics together and lining them with a solid fabric. If you have the talent, you can knit your own carpet or use your own dyed fabrics on your old carpet. More simply, you can combine the pompoms to create a cute and decorative rug, cut old fabrics into strips and knit them and stick them on a thick fabric. The choice is up to you, your taste, your time, your talent and your budget. 🙂

7. Change the Lighting

If you want to add something cheap and cool to your home, you can redecorate your ceiling light. There are creative examples of this. You can also brighten your home with all your creativity by using old fabrics, glass jars, ceramic bowls, tin cans, colorful bottles, tree branches, straw ropes, lace and any material you can think of.

8. Create Storage Spaces

If you live in a small rental home, you want to use every space you find as storage space. For this, your sofa and coffee table bottoms are ideal areas for storage. If you haven’t bought a base sofa or coffee table for your new home and are looking for a cheap sofa or coffee table for your home, the following ideas may be useful for you;

1. If there is a space in your home that you want to use as a sitting area, you can try the sofa model in the upper left picture. To do this, first assemble two bookshelves back-to-back and lay them on their side so that there is a surface area to sit on. Then you can make the upper part comfortable with cushions and pillows and fill the lower part with boxes and baskets and use it as a storage area or bookcase. This sofa idea will also be highly functional for children’s rooms and bedrooms.
2. You can consider the same idea when making a coffee table like in the upper right picture. All you have to do is to mount another material on the surface that you can use as a coffee table top, instead of covering the surface with a cushion.

9. Color Your Home with Washi Tape

You can achieve any fun or stylish look on your walls with these magnificent tapes, which have all kinds of colors and patterns, such as transparent, gold, glossy, matte. These tapes called ‘Washi Tape’, which are easily removed from the wall and do not leave any traces; You can easily find it in stationery stores, home decor stores and online. How you use these tapes, which are very easy and practical to apply, is entirely up to your creativity. For more creative wall decoration ideas:

10. Make Your Own Curtains

Sewing your own curtains will be one of the wisest choices you can make if you live in a rental home. There is absolutely no need to shop for curtains for a temporary home. You can simply make your own curtains at home.

All you need for this is a nice fabric and curtain rods you can find at any DIY store. As fabric, you can patchwork from old fabrics in your home, use an elegant tablecloth, or even knit your own curtains. You can adapt one of the DIY curtain projects that you can find tons of examples to your home. As a result, your own handmade curtains will definitely be much cheaper, useful and creative for your temporary rental home.

We hope you enjoyed the practical and cheap DIY home ideas for renters. If you have any DIY home projects, please share them with us in the comments. Don’t forget to visit our homepage for inspiration on different topics related to home design & decoration! 🙂

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