Buying a house outright isn’t always the answer for everybody. For our family, we wanted to send our son to a school with playing fields, and that meant moving out of the Central London postcode I knew so well. Drawn to a new area, we felt it safer to ‘try before we buy’, moving into a rental (and yes, three years later, we now plan to settle down here for good).
For anyone decorating a rental, though, I have a stack of advice — the things I did to make it feel like our own. It doesn’t have to seem like a temporary home if you don’t want it to, and a few decorative tricks can give the home you’ve leased a whole new lease of life.
