Apartment Living Hints And Tips

Welcome to the place to gain more information and tips that will turn your apartment into a home. Like Colored bulbs in light fixtures will splash their color on walls and or ceiling. Wall washer light fixtures (get the kind with a cord that plugs into a socket) and torcheres (up facing floor lamps) are ideal for this.

Make your Apartment a Home

How to deal with small spaces.

Of course, there is one great tried-and-true way to deal with small spaces: make them cozier. Using dark colors, soft upholstery, and dramatic lighting can turn most any tiny nook into an intimate and wonderful corner. And most important transform your new apartment into a home that reflects your personality.

Great Apartment Living Books on Amazon

With a little imagination and creativity--and without hiring a professional--almost anyone can transform a small living space into a comfortable and stylish environment. Whether decorating a dorm room, an apartment, or a little cottage, what we strive for is a look and feel that expresses our individual personalities. Part style guide, part idea sourcebook, this handy volume--designed to meet the needs of real people with real budgets--is packed with smart ideas, basic design principles, and enough inspiration to get you off the sofa to make it happen.

In her lively, informative text, design guru Marisa Bartolucci takes readers inside 33 small homes from cities across the U.S. to reveal how a strong sense of style--rather than design know-how or unlimited resources--is the most effective tool for transforming an ordinary cramped living space into a smart yet functional private sanctuary.

Living Large in Small Spaces: Expressing Personal Style in 100 to 1,000 Square Feet

by Marisa Bartolucci, Radek Kurzaj

Part style guide, part idea sourcebook, this handy volume--designed to meet the needs of real people with real budgets--is packed with smart ideas, basic design principles, and enough inspiration to get you off the sofa to make it happen.

Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 07/26/2008)

Decorating Your First Apartment: From Moving In to Making It Your Own

by Paige Gilchrist

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

Small Apartments

by Alejandro Bahamon

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

How to Decorate and Furnish Your Apartment on a Budget: From Budgeting to Shopping, Your Idea Source for Transforming Your Apartment into a Beautiful Home

by Lourdes Dumke

Amazon Price: $15.26 (as of 07/26/2008)

Links

Apartment Living: A discussion forum for those living in apartments, condominiums and co-ops. Topics range from roommate problems, maintenance issues, leases to decorating.
Good for Apartment Life: Provides a list of dog breeds suited to apartment living. Each breed is linked to a detailed description.
Tenant Net: Provides online resources for residential tenants with an emphasis on New York State. Information on other U.S. states, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom is available.
Apartment Renter's Resource: Features information on apartment hunting and living, landlords, leases and the hassles of each. Provides an online forum where you can ask questions and talk about landlord problems.
Apartment Ratings: Ratings and reviews by tenants of apartment living experiences.
So You Wanna Decorate Your Apartment Cheaply?: This article explains how to evaluate the space in your apartment, decide on a style, choose a color scheme and find bargains when decorating your apartment.
Rental Decorating Digest: Tips and tricks for decorating for the renter.
The LemonClub Apartment Ratings: Apartment ratings based on the actual experience of tenants in the United States. Also includes a discussion forum for consumer and tenant issues.
MetLife Renting an Apartment: A guide to renting an apartment and understanding tenants' rights and responsibilities before signing the lease.
Apartment Gardening: Information on balcony, patio and window gardening.
Apartment Reviews: Features reviews of apartments by tenants. Provides an apartment rating form.
Decorating for Renters: Tips on what you can and can not change in your apartment, wallpapering and window treatments.
Living In Your Apartment: Hints and tips to solving common storage, decoration, and styling problems.
Space Management Survival Guide: Studio apartment solutions for "hiding and otherwise disguising belongings that needed to be stored in a small space."

More Make a Rental a Home

Adding Your Touch: Facing a rather empty apartment? Living in a cluttered unit? It's time to start making order of this chaos and turn your rental into a home. The first place to begin is to figure out what makes "your style" and start displaying that Display your collections. Little shelves or bookshelves with a few of your prized items always adds a personal touch to a room

Apartment Magazines

Apartment Finance Today

Serves the information needs of owners, operators, and investors of rental properties

Amazon Price: $39.00 (as of 07/26/2008)

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Canadian Apartment Magazine is Canada's only national multi-family oriented publication featuring industry news, market review and analysis, profiles of key players, and their properties and organizations. Serves as an overview of residential ownership, a

Amazon Price: $75.75 (as of 07/26/2008)

Featured Lenses

Learn About Google Earth ( My Passion )

Google Earth is a 3D graphics application enabling the viewing of aerial photography and satellite images to show views of the Earth from above in great detail. Google has taken the features Google Maps and merged it with the capabilities of...

Displaying Photographs

Pictures and photographs are a way of making a temporary rental more of a home and litte reminders of friends and family. Visitors love to stop and look at interesting photographs, asking "who's this?"

Keep your family and friends close by displaying their pictures. Hang a few pictures of family and friends. Your refrigerator makes a perfect place to hang photos and other memorabilia.
Make your own photo frames.