Rental Style

May 15, 2020
Experts suggest that those starting a career or moving to a new city should rent housing first and buy later. One concern with renting, though, is ensuring that the unowned apartment or house speaks to the individual's sense of home?without the need to make alternatives that could be costly move-out issues. Enter interior decorator Brown, blogger behind City Chic Decor, who specializes in personalizing rentals. This is her room-by-room view, complete with good color photographs (it's hard to believe there's contact paper on those countertops, for example). Every chapter features design products to consider that are fairly easy to take with, such as books, faux flowers, rugs, and floating shelves. There's advice, too, for finding apartments (especially difficult in cities like Boston, New York, and San Francisco), from avoiding last-minute searches to signing a contract quickly. How to transform an ugly bathroom? Try a new shower curtain and rug. Includes a list of go-to resources.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)