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Livingetc
Hugh Metcalf

25 Apartment Decorating Ideas That Turn Your Space's Challenges Into Its Biggest Strengths

A white apartment living room with neutral furniture looking out of two large windows, a pocket door leads to another room behind a white sofa.

For me, like a lot of people, an apartment was the first place I lived when I left my family home, and that means it was also where I first fell in love with design. My own apartments have, over the years, been the places I've experimented with the most radical decorating ideas I've tried — by trial and error, finally honing my style into what it is today.

My own experience of apartment living also taught me that these homes have distinct challenges. The placement of windows, for example, the lack of light towards the back of the space, and even often the presence of windowless rooms. As well as size, access, and sometimes the inability to make structural changes, these factors really do affect the apartment decorating ideas you can embrace.

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