Home & Organizing

Baskets, peel-and-stick, curtains, lamps and closet systems. Everything here comes out with you when the lease ends.

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Philips

Warm white dimmable LED bulbs, 2700K

Landlords buy bulbs by the box and the box is daylight white. Twenty dollars and ten minutes changes every room in the place.

$15-28 The cheapest real change

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Varies

Table lamp with a fabric shade

Overhead light flattens a room. One lamp at head height through fabric does more than new furniture would.

$45-85 Light at eye level

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Command

Command Picture Hanging Strips

Bare walls are what make a rental feel temporary, and most people leave them bare over deposit anxiety. This solves it for the price of lunch.

$10-20 Art without holes

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Varies

Peel-and-stick removable wallpaper

Transforms a small wall for under fifty dollars and is removable most of the time. Buy a sample and test it for two weeks before you commit a whole wall.

$35-70 One wall, tested first

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Varies

Linen-look curtain panels

The panels matter less than where you hang the rod. High and wide is the whole trick, and almost nobody does it.

$30-60 Windows that came with blinds

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Varies

Woven storage baskets, set of three

Not really storage. A way of making the stuff with nowhere to live look like it was put there on purpose.

$40-65 Making a pile look intentional