Renting a home can come with some challenges, especially trying to get the security deposit back. This is why it is always important to read the fine print of your lease, but also to contact your landlord before doing intensive renovations. If your lease or landlord gives you no leeway — so to speak — there are still ways to give your home a makeover without risking damaging your walls. For example with contact paper.
TikToker Julie Sousa (@the_avantgarde) found out the hard way, by deleting one of her DIY project makeovers from her drywall. As she shows in the video, contact paper is the way to go to get that security deposit back.
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It’s just awesome! The small hallway near the laundry room looks chic, clean and hides the fact that there are two baskets! This makeover even hides the circuit box – genius. What Julie did first was paint the walls dark olive green, then add black contact paper to one side, to create an accent wall. She then added wooden planks to the contact paper — which she first darkened with wood stain — and attached them with a nail gun to create a rustic look. Finally, she hung some shelves, updated the artwork that hung there before, and hid the baskets under the shelves. It’s easy.
The purpose of the contact paper is to prevent damage from the removal of the wooden planks, should Julie decide to change her mind or want to update that area again with a different makeover. As she mentioned in her video, in her previous apartment she glued the wood planks directly to the wall and had a hard time removing them, as it practically destroyed the drywall.
We are in love with this easy, cheap and wall-saving hack.
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