Apartment Living
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5 Storage Solutions for Your Rental Bathroom
Whether it’s insufficient under-sink storage, missing towel bars, no closet or the lack of a medicine cabinet, not having adequate storage space in your bathroom can…
Home Decor
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Functional Coffee Table Solutions for Renters
Coffee tables are often a necessary family room staple. Whether it’s to hold pretty décor accessories or more functional items like drinks, snacks, remotes and reading…
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Food and Entertaining
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How to Host a Christmas Cookie Exchange
If there is one thing synonymous with Christmas, it’s cookies! Everyone loves cookies, and many people have a favorite recipe they make year after year. If…
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DIY
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3 Creative Gift Ideas for the Non-Crafty Renter
With the holiday season officially upon us, the sprint to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list has also begun! While it may feel…
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Home Decor
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3 Fun Ways to Decorate Your Apartment Door for the Holidays
One of the quickest, easiest and least expensive ways to infuse your apartment home with holiday cheer is on the front door! Because apartment and dorm…
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Apartment Living
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6 Strategies for Making the Most of Your Rental’s Closets
When considering potential apartments, one of the top things on your list may be the number and size of the closets. And for good reason! Storage…
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Apartment Living
4 Min. Read
Creative and Clever Uses for Floating Shelves
Oftentimes, rental spaces can be short on storage, display space and interesting architectural details. Adding bookcases or other storage-type units can sometimes solve the problem (here’s…
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Home Decor
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Renter-Friendly 3D Paper Wall Art
When you’re living in an apartment and can’t or don’t want to paint, you can be left staring at expanses of blank walls in every single…
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DIY
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How to Make a Customizable Kitchen Drawer Organizer
The kitchen is one area in the home that can get overrun and become dysfunctional without just the right storage solutions. Too few, too small or…
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DIY
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How to Make No-Sew, Hardware-Free Roman Shades
As a longtime renter, I have learned that window treatments are absolutely necessary in making a temporary space feel like home! When painting walls and other…
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Home Decor
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4 Ways to Add Color to Your Space Without Paint
As a renter, you can often find yourself living in bland and neutral spaces. And thanks to short leases and painting restrictions, it can be quite…
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Home Decor
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4 Renter-Friendly Ways to Hang Things on Your Walls
One of the easiest and best ways to make an apartment, dorm room or house feel like your home is to hang things up on the…
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Apartment Living
4 Min. Read
Need-to-Know Tips and Tricks for Moving Fragile Items Safely
In the six moves my family and I have made, we’ve been fortunate enough to be packed up by professional movers. Having the pros pack our…
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Apartment Living
6 Min. Read
10 Tips for Having a Stress-Free and Successful Move!
My family and I have moved six times in the last 10 years. Most have been cross-country relocations that required tons of logistical preparation and hard…
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Fitness and Style
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A Do-It-Anywhere High-Intensity Workout!
Tired of logging hours on the elliptical machine at your apartment complex’s gym? Bored with your weight routine but still want to get your body summer-ready?…
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Home Decor
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How to Create the Perfect Outdoor Oasis for a Temporary Space
Now that spring has officially arrived and temperatures are (finally!) starting to warm up, it’s time to start fully enjoying the outside areas of your home.…
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Apartment Living
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Table for One! How to Eat Well While Living Alone
Living alone, especially after years of living with your parents and/or roommates, can be wonderful. In your own place, you can decorate, play music, have people…
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Apartment Living
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Strategies for Transitioning to a New-to-You Community
Big Move = New Life | Strategies for Transitioning to a New-to-You Community Moving to a brand new place involves more than just finding a new…
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DIY
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An Easy Indoor Herb Garden Idea Perfect for Any Apartment
If you’re an outdoor person and/or love plants and fresh greens around you, one of the hardest aspects of apartment living is not being able to…
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Apartment Living
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Packing for Snacking — Great Road Trip Eats and Treats!
Temperatures are starting to warm, and Spring Break is inching closer and closer. No matter where you’re headed, especially if it’s by car, you won’t want…
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Food and Entertaining
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‘Eat Your Greens’ Day!
The month of March is seemingly synonymous with the color green, thanks to images of shamrocks, leprechauns, green rivers and green beer! But this St. Patrick’s…
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Apartment Living
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Outfit a Healthy Kitchen With a DIY Salad Bar!
Let’s face it: Eating healthy can be hard work! Shopping for fresh produce, preparing nutritious (yet delicious) snacks and meals, learning portion sizes, counting calories and…
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DIY
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Valentine’s Day in a Box!
Valentine’s Day is all about showing the special people in your life how much you love them! But what do you do when your loved ones…
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Apartment Living
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DIY Wallpaper-Covered Storage Boxes
In small homes or apartments, storage space often comes at a premium. Without abundant closet or cabinet space, storing small items like craft supplies, batteries, cords,…
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Apartment Living
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Get Fresh – Clean Out the Cleaning Supplies!
As the calendar flips to January, we all seem to get the insatiable urge to de-clutter, organize and beautify each and every space in our house!…
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Food and Entertaining
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Festive New Year's Mini Party Hat Place Cards!
With Christmas and New Year’s just one week apart, it’s never too early to start planning out how to ring in the new year! A big…
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DIY
3 Min. Read
Craft Caddy – A Land-of-Nod Knock Off!
I am always on the hunt for great products to keep our home organized and our life streamlined! When I stumbled upon Land of Nod's adorable…
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DIY
4 Min. Read
Crafty Christmas Wrapping
I grew up with a mother who made every package under the tree a true work of art! Even though it all was torn to shreds…
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Apartment Living
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5 Things You Can Do to Fall in Love with Your Kitchen!
Kitchens are most often one of the hardest spaces to decorate in a rental property! More permanent changes, such as painting cabinets, tiling backsplashes, swapping out…
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Food and Entertaining
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Hearty Sausage and Beef Barley Soup
With the arrival of crisper temperatures outside, I'm finding myself wanting fewer cold salads and sandwiches and instead craving cozier comfort foods. Although it's good any…
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Home Decor
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A Simple Recipe for Modern Fall Décor
With the arrival of ciders at coffee shops, pumpkins at grocery stores, and warm-weather apparel in clothing outlets, Fall sure is in the air! As the…
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Home Decor
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Making a Color Happy Home!
Color and pattern are two of the scariest elements for novice decorators to incorporate into a room. Fear of the results looking mismatched, disjointed, or "too…
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Apartment Hunting
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5 Tips to Make Your Next Move Easier
As a military family, frequent moves are a way of life. Without fail, we are packing up and moving to a new place every 1-3 years.…
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Apartment Living
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6 Ways to Decorate Your Rental without Risking Your Deposit!
Being a military family who has moved into five "new-to-us" spaces in the last nine years, I feel like I've become a pro at getting creative…
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Apartment Living
3 Min. Read
Using the Fresh Start with a New Color eGuide Ideas in Your Home!
Adding colors, patterns, and textures in your home can sometimes be an overwhelming endeavor, especially if you're a little color shy or décor impaired! Thankfully, the…
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Apartment Living
7 Min. Read
A Happy and Preppy Closet Makeover
Megan, from The Homes I Have Made, is back with ForRent.com to help you turn that cluttered closet into a functional and organized storage space! I'm…
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DIY
6 Min. Read
Bedside Table Turned Rolling Printer Cart
Megan, from The Homes I Have Made, is back with ForRent.com to show you how to upcycle old furniture and create statement decor pieces for your…
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DIY
7 Min. Read
DIY Mid-Century-Modern-Inspired Ottoman
Megan, from The Homes I Have Made, stops by the ForRent.com Apartment Living blog again to show you how to create your own DIY ottoman! Ottomans…
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Apartment Living
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Making the Most of Your Builder-Basic Bathroom!
One of my favorite parts of watching home makeover shows on TV is to see the reveal of the big, beautiful and luxurious bathrooms. Ample storage,…
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DIY
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Decrease Drawer Clutter with Painted Utensil Jars
Our friend Megan, from The Homes I Have Made, stopped by the ForRent.com blog to show you how to cut down on clutter with an awesome…
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