Interior design for renters: 5 deposit-safe ideas

Designed for renting from the start

When you tell us you rent, it shapes the whole brief rather than arriving as an afterthought: nothing structural, finishes that keep your deposit safe, and pieces that move with you. The design is made to be lived in now and packed up later.

Where a rented room changes most

A home is made far more by what you put in it than by what is fixed to it. In a rented room, the design leans on the things that move:

• Textiles: a generous rug, linen curtains and cushions, to warm a room without touching the floor or walls
• Lighting: floor and table lamps with warm bulbs, in place of the single light in the ceiling
• Freestanding furniture and storage, chosen to suit your next home as well as this one
• Plants in pots, so the greenery comes with you
• Paint only where your landlord has agreed, in a colour you would be glad to live with

Which package suits a rented home

Room Ambience is often the natural fit: one room, designed entirely in writing, with one photorealistic visual. Sunday Signature suits a rented home just as well when you would like more depth and to see the whole finished room in photorealistic visuals first. Moving soon? A Space Edit helps you decide what is worth carrying.

For more ideas, read Rachel’s Journal entry on 7 ways to make a rented home feel like yours, deposit safe.