Living in a rented apartment does not mean that you will have to suffer in a gloomy dark hole every day, and only dream that one day you will wake up in a room that your imagination draws. If you really don't like the interior of your rental housing, change it!
Another problem for many tenants is that the landlords will not allow the wallpaper to be re-glued, the walls drilled or thrown away. old furniture and other stuff. But, fortunately, there are techniques with which you can make your home cozy and beautiful, light and bright, in a word, the way you want it to be, without violating the rules of residence. Find out about without large investments and repairs by reading this article to the end.
Start your move by completely removing and cleaning the apartment from dust, dirt, cobwebs. Wash windows, chandeliers, dust off even in hard-to-reach places and wash the floors well.
Immediately after that, you will see how your rental housing will brighten and transform, and you will certainly want to live here. Continue with the arrangement.
As a rule, the apartments that the owners are preparing for delivery have a neutral finish and the so-called redecorating... If you have light walls in a rented apartment that do not cheer you up, "cheer up" them with bright patterns. Of course, we will not paint on the walls, but they will fit perfectly.
A huge plus of such stickers is that they can be changed to new ones at any time, thereby transforming the interior. rented apartment, or remove them completely. They will not leave a trace on the walls, and you will be absolutely sure that the renovation in the rented apartment is not damaged. Today you can buy them anywhere and for every taste - bright and multi-colored, black and white or having natural, natural shades.
The same goes for the pattern - you can choose both abstract patterns and stickers with flowers, leaves, trees, birds, animals. It can be an image of a wall clock, some inscriptions, portraits, landscapes, etc.
By using decorative stickers you can create your rented apartment or transform it with each coming season. So, for you can choose a colorful yellow-brown-orange leaf fall, and closer to decorate the walls with greens, juicy fruits and flowers.
Another idea, how to make a cozy rented apartment- this is to change the curtains to those that you like and cheer up. Everything is simple here - choose the most suitable curtains in the store and hang them in the rooms.
If you want to create coziness in a rented apartment and, at the same time, give it a modern look, hang blinds instead of curtains. Fabric rolls or equally popular ones are perfect.
You can also pay attention to - pendants, butterflies, lambrequins and more. If your budget is limited and there are no funds to buy new curtains, then it is the decoration of the master's curtains that will save the situation.
If you often have to move from one rented apartment to another, and even more so if you have been renting a house for a long time, you probably have some of your own pieces of furniture that move with you. You can do whatever you want with your personal furniture, and if it becomes shabby, put it in order in any way.
As for the furniture that belongs to the owners, it is better to handle it more carefully. If the furniture is new and you are satisfied with it appearance, it is not worth changing anything, otherwise you can use the same vinyl stickers for decoration. But this is not the only option. So, if you need to hide the unaesthetic metal parts of the bed, you can wrap them in organza or another slightly transparent fabric, lay a crocheted openwork napkin on or on the chest of drawers, and cover large tables with a beautiful tablecloth. The kitchen table will be decorated with a thick oilcloth with a picture or pattern, flat pillows can be put on dining chairs or covers can be sewn, old sofas can be covered with a "cheerful" bedspread and decorated with bright ones.
Perfectly decorate a rented apartment and, for example, a pear chair or - many stores quite often provide decent discounts on them.
If in a rented apartment there is a lot of furniture that you absolutely do not need, moreover, which clutters up the space and interferes, it is better to discuss this issue with the owners. As a rule, many people who are going to rent an apartment take everything they don't need there - old wardrobes, armchairs, grandma's chests or pianos and so on. But the owners may have an empty garage, or maybe they don't need some pieces of furniture at all and they will agree that you throw them away. V last resort, something can be ported to if you don't plan on using it. Also, if the apartment has a free room that you do not occupy, move the furniture junk there.
If it is more difficult to change furniture for a new one, then many can afford to buy a pretty chandelier, or a lamp on the wall. Choose exactly the kind of lighting that will harmoniously fit into the interior and delight you in someone else's home.
Pendant lights are popular today, which are especially attractive in the dining area, as well as desk lamp with stained-glass windows. In the living room, you can put a lamp with a pantograph (on a bracket).
To make your rented apartment cozy at home, use your familiar decor items - candles, figurines, vases, something made with your own hands or children's crafts. Also, find a place for your family photos and things that remind you of the happy moments in life - let it be a separate corner, reminding you of home comfort.
On the floor, you can lay your favorite carpet, wicker or, throw decorative rollers and pillows.
If the rented apartment is cramped and small, then visually enlarging the space will help, which, moreover, will become a decorative element.
Do not forget about indoor flowers, which will not only enliven the interior of a rented apartment, but also freshen the air.
An inconspicuous bathroom with old tiles on the floor and on the walls can be salvaged with harmoniously selected accessories. Choose made in the same style and color scheme, floor mats, towels, bottles for shampoo and soap, lids and more.
For one reason or another, many car owners believe that their car simply needs glass tinted, how to do it yourself is described. However, not everyone has a certain amount funds for the purchase of factory tinting. What to do then? Make a removable tinting with your own hands. After all, the technology of its production is not so tricky so as not to figure it out on your own (although the work is rather painstaking and not the easiest, so it is better to have an assistant in this matter). And if the desire to tint the glass and at the same time be able to dismantle the tint so as not to attract problems with traffic police is very great, then you have definitely come to the right place.
So, you will need:
When everything is prepared, you can get to work.
1. The first step is to remove the mold from the glass. To do this, disassemble the doors and dismantle the glass. For the pattern, you can use tracing paper. Attach it with double-sided tape to the glass, and then trace the outline along the sealing elastic bands. Next, cut out the template along the marked line.
2. The next step will be work on the manufacture of a template and blanks. You need to transfer the removed piece to a sheet of, for example, Whatman paper or other thick paper and adjust the resulting dense piece to the exact dimensions of the glass by inserting the cut paper between the glass and the seals in the cabin.
3. Having achieved perfect accuracy, cut out the workpieces from plastic using metal scissors, according to the pattern made. Sand or sand the imperfect edges.
4. Apply tinting to the resulting blanks. Cut out three contours of the plastic blanks from the tint film (in case one of them is damaged). Peel off the protective layer on one side of the polyester and allow a little time until the static effect disappears so that the film does not bubble.
5. After 15 minutes, using a spray bottle, moisten the surface of the workpiece with soapy water. Do the same with the tinting film, removing the protective layer from it. Next, attach the tint film to the workpiece and smooth it over the surface using forcing. While leveling, constantly wet the film surface. Then, using a knife (passing it clearly along the edge of the plastic), cut off the remnants of the film along the contour. Apply the tinting film to all workpieces in the same way. Dry the finished products for 2 hours. When the first side is dry, repeat the same procedure on the back.
6. Achieve the required level of light transmission when choosing a film for tinting. Keep in mind that if you apply 35% light transmittance on both sides, you will get 15-18 percent light transmittance. And further. Leave the removable tinting for a few days before use in order for the film to adhere as tightly as possible. Otherwise, the service life of the tinting will be significantly reduced.
During the exercise in the bathroom, the question often arises: how to make it both beautiful and functional at the same time. Everything is clear with beauty, it's better ceramic tiles nothing has been invented for the bathroom and toilet yet. The tile has durability, water resistance, excellent sanitary and hygienic qualities. Thanks to numerous manufacturers, there is a huge variety in the choice of color, size and shape of tiles. But in addition to being just a beautiful room, the bathroom also performs technical functions, and any equipment requires regular maintenance... This raises the question of how to make access to pipes and plumbing communications convenient and beautiful at the same time. Often times, people sacrifice convenience for beauty. For example, they tightly seal the wall under the bathroom, leaving, at best, a small window opposite the siphon. As a result, any malfunction or clogging of the drain threatens with a new overhaul. The plumber may simply not be able to fix anything through the little window. You can see how we make a bathroom screen from tiles. All of the above also applies to the back wall behind the toilet in a toilet or a combined bathroom. You can look down through a door or hatch, but nothing can be done. Any malfunction threatens with the prospect of dismantling or destruction of the interfering structure. Finding the same tiles for restoration will be very difficult. So during the overhaul of the bathroom, it is better to take care of ensuring easy and painless access to the pipes in advance. To save general form and the style of the room, we will only consider methods using ceramic tiles:
Tiles provide excellent access to communications and at the same time look very attractive, without disturbing the design of the bathroom. But they are quite difficult to manufacture. The tiles are very heavy and the maximum door dimensions are limited. Much easier to do removable panel from tiles. If access to pipes is not needed often, only in the event of an accident, then this the best option... Removable panel can be made big size, because it will not be removed often, but only as a last resort. At cost, it also comes out almost for nothing, the panel can be made from ordinary, or better moisture-resistant drywall or gypsum plasterboard. This good should be enough during the overhaul. We will make the removable panel behind the toilet easily removable, but it will look like a monolithic wall made of tiles.
It is best to make the base of the panel from gypsum fiber board, as it holds its shape better. If the size of the panel is not very large, then it can be made of green, moisture-resistant drywall. To prevent the panel from deforming during operation, several reinforcing guides can be screwed to the sheet from the inside of the sheet. To begin with, we cut out a workpiece suitable in size from drywall. It should easily, without clamping and skewing, be installed in its place. We cut out all the necessary holes for pipes at once with some margin. Now you need to fix the panel so that it holds well in place and can be easily removed if necessary. To do this, screw the sections of the PP27x28 drywall guides to our sheet with self-tapping screws according to the diagram below. We also attach the counterparts to the floor. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that during installation, the lower guide panels are put on those that are attached to the floor and catch on them, preventing the panels from falling out from below. You can bend them slightly for adjustment. Then the upper part is pushed forward and fixed with long self-tapping screws through the main wall frame guide, or the hatch frame. The removal procedure is the same in the reverse order: we unscrew the long fixing screws, push the top of the panel towards ourselves and move the lower guides out of engagement with an upward movement.
Only after we have made sure that our panel can be easily and freely installed and removed, can we cover it with tiles. We recommend using liquid nails or other plastic glue as glue to make the structure strong and light. Leave the gaps a little wider at the edges of the panel. tile joint... They can then be covered with a rubber seal or repaired for tiles if the panel is only to be removed as a last resort.
The photo below shows a few more removable tile panels in combination with an aluminum hatch for access to pipes.
The idea of a lower removable panel for access to pipes was so loved by everyone that it was further developed in the form of a removable upper panel. Usually, access to the top of the risers is not required, but there are still times when it is needed. For example, it may happen that the house will still be held overhaul and the old pipes of the risers will be replaced with new ones, then you will be asked to provide free access to the risers. With removable panels, this is easy to do and you don't have to destroy or alter anything. This design provides the most complete access to pipes for repair and maintenance. Below are some examples from our practice. Removable top and bottom tile panels in combined and separate bathrooms.
Many drivers are struggling with the dilemma - to install the tint and squeeze their heads into their shoulders at the sight of each patrol post, or to leave the windows intact and at the same time endure the sunlight hitting their eyes and the curious glances of passers-by? To solve this problem in one fell swoop will help useful invention, which is called a new generation of removable tinting. And this is not in vain, because it not only masks the insides of the cabin, but will also be available for dismantling at any convenient moment. Well, the decisive argument can be called the fact that in our time it is quite possible to make a removable tinting with your own hands.
In order to understand the manufacturing principle, you first need to determine what exactly such a film is. So, reusable removable tinting is a sheet of translucent material that is cut to the shape of the glass, on which it will be glued. In order to attach such a tinting to the surface, most of the soap solution is used in a spray bottle. When the product is on the glass and is well leveled, the water dries up and then the film is held due to static. That is why you can attach and remove the new generation of removable tinting at any time.
Thanks to the functional features of such a product, you get many advantages:
On the other hand, some types of toning have a detrimental effect on visibility from the inside, making the glass cloudy and the image blurry. This effect can be observed in the first days of the film's operation, or it can remain throughout the entire period of its use.
But this is the smallest of evils, because a well-chosen product will not create such problems. And in order to provide really high-quality toning for your car, you need to know which materials are the most optimal in our case.
A wide variety of polymer materials are used for production. However, from the list of those that can be obtained for making with your own hands, there are only a few types of products.
One of the most popular and demanded is the material with the complex name polyethylene terephthalate. In “everyday life” it is also called verolite, in its simplest and abbreviated name it is PET. According to reviews, removable PET tinting is characterized by good adhesion (adhesion) and a wide working range. The whole problem is that it is not so easy to get such high-quality material, since it is used only in industry and is sold in huge volumes, which it makes no sense to buy if you just decided to make a removable tinting on the forehead.
That is why enterprising car enthusiasts go the other way and buy A-PET, which is made in China. As a rule, Chinese products are not of high quality and this case is no exception. Worker temperature regime such material is limited, and the period of use is not too long. To understand better what the problem is, you just need to know that A-PET is used to make standard plastic bottles, only flat sheets are used for machines. You can buy such raw materials in the printing industry or an advertising agency, while even the largest sheet will cost you quite inexpensively.
In addition to PET, Plexiglas and other available materials, such as ASWF or D-C-FIX films, are used for home production of reusable removable tinting. However, the resulting properties and disadvantages are always about the same. Some quick-release tinting for cars is attached only with water, for others you need to use a soapy solution. There are some that can break during the first removal, but these are products of the worst quality. In order to avoid the last troubles, it is better to use a hard removable tinting.
Another fairly common option is car window tinting made of silicone. The special charm of such a film is that a wide variety of toning shades are available for sale. Thus, we observe quite big choice bases for materials with which you can make a removable tinting with your own hands. And if you have decided, then it's time to study the process itself.
Making a decent removable car window tint at home is pretty easy.
It must be carefully leveled using a soft rubber trowel. When the product is dry, the reusable removable tinting will be ready for use. Of course, a similar procedure will have to be done every time after dismantling the film, however, in its simplicity and low cost, the new generation of removable tinting cannot be compared with anything.
It can be concluded that the purchase of such a simple product as reusable tinting film can greatly simplify the life of the driver. In addition, if you know how to make removable tinting with your own hands, then you no longer have to spend money on the services of professionals.
This video shows the procedure for creating and installing a removable tint film with your own hands.
