Should You Buy Smaller Furniture for Your Rental?
Common sense dictates that when you live in a small space, you don't want too many big pieces of furniture. At the same time,...
What’s Your Holiday Decorating Style?
I have a theory that there are two types of people when it comes to apartment-dwelling decorators; the type that saves valuable space for...
Best (removable) home tech for your apartment
As a veteran renter and avid internet shopper, I've spent many hours looking at home tech like smart locks and alarm systems that could...
Movable Gadgets: Home Safety
Make safety your first priority when moving in to a new place. For the first article in our Movable Gadgets series, we have picked...
How To: Soundproof Your Apartment
Nothing can make you despise your rental quicker than excessive noise. Like when you discover you have the kind of neighbors who do intense cardio at...
How to tell if a rental listing is fake
The rental market is exploding right now. We’ve heard about renters waking up at the crack of dawn to get an application in first,...
How to pay rent when you’ve blown your monthly budget
The scenario is simple. It’s usually not your fault. You were too nice. You wanted to help someone. Okay, fine. Maybe you weren’t bailing...
5 Ways Paying Rent Online Will Make Your Life Easier
Checkbook, what’s a checkbook? If you rent, you probably keep one of these relics next to your rotary dial phone just to write out...
When Your Apartment is Your Office
Lately more and more offices are becoming "global" and allowing employees to work from home wherever they are. As a result, lots of people are...
8 Tips for DIY Balcony Gardening
A garden balcony can give you endless hours of serene pleasure, and the nice thing about such a haven is the fact that you...
Pantone at Home 2016
Pantone went really crazy this year and released not one, but TWO colors of the year for 2016. The pastel-rose hue and periwinkle blue...
Thursday Design Inspiration: Fall
Okay, I guess it's time to admit fall is really coming. It's easy to focus on the negative (toting multiple sweaters to the office and...