Make a rent room homey

The bricks and mortar might be someone else’s property, but there are many ways to make the place home belongs to you. Here are some tips from experts to make the most of rented accommodation without spending a fortune.

1. Spend most of the budget on items that we can take with, when we move. Remember, what goes in will have to go out again sooner or later, so don’t fill the spaces with large, heavy pieces of furniture.
2. Furniture on wheels is easier to move around and provides maximum flexibility in small spaces. 
3. Trolleys are very versatile. Easy to move, they provide extra storage and table space. Collapsible tables can hide behind sofas or be stored under beds when they’re not in use. A stool is ideal for extra seating when friends drop by. Use screens or shelving to divide rooms into separate zone. Or Rather than furnish two spaces, buy tables and chairs that can be used indoors and out. This type of furniture is generally smaller. Invest in a quality sofa in a classic design, and definitely buy a good bed and mattress. And if you can’t decide on a bedhead, opt for a quality ensemble. 
4. Brighten a standard white painted room with colourful furnishings. For example, choose a blue and silver scheme, and added to it with pale timber furniture. Suggestion : Colour coordinate the sound system. Banish an ugly carpet or floor from sight by laying a beautiful rug over the top. Rugs make a difference to any timber floor Glassware can be decorative as well as functional.
5. To lower a high ceiling, or disguise an unsightly one, tent it with metres of inexpensive calico or muslin. This is also stylish and inexpensive way of treating windows. 
6. Plants (such as cacti) can move when you do and are like sculptures in the house. Cacti are the perfect plant for renters – easy to care for and easy to take with you when you move. Even a simple arrangement of flowers looks beautiful.
7. For inexpensive and sometimes innovative pieces of furniture, visit auction houses and garage sales.
8. Keep your kitchen to a minimum, but don’t skip on essentials, such as the microwave.  

Fake Floor Cover

Timber floor is always a favorite for every home owner. It can make a house more cozy and warm. However, borer, dry rot, warping, cupping and gasps are all problems that can beset a natural timber floor. 

The two causes of disruption of floorboards are inadequate drainage or insufficient sub-floor ventilation. While cleaning with excessive amounts of water can result in rotting. The others are stiletto heels, furniture legs and castors. The beauty of natural floorboards can be just short lived.

Now, there are ranges banners, however, that comprise realistic looking fake floorboards. These new ranges feature wider boards, 125mm wide, ideally suited to Federation houses, while they also retain a comprehensive choice in the narrower options, measuring as little as 80mm.

Some timbers are represented: antique oak, jarrah, mahogany, various pines, and some bleached effects. And it is easy to care: regular sweeping and a wipe with a damp mop are all that is required for maintenance. Sanding, sealing and varnishing are not necessary. 

Edging your Bets

Everybody knows to plant the flowers in garden should be in beds. The traditional way is to make some soil a bit higher. And then we put some stones as a ‘fence’.

Now, a company, Boral Besser, produces garden beds and paths or build a retaining wall up to a meter high. The product is Garden Wall bricks. So, the newest, quickest way to edge comes.

The bricks are moulded in concrete with a roughened surface. Each brick has a lug at the back which locks into the next, giving stability for not much weight.

The bricks are not exactly like the real thing, Garden Wall blocks have a pleasing symmetry to make an architectural feature in themselves. The products are available in Sandstone, Limestone and Bluestone Brown.

The wall in the picture here is a strong focal point in courtyard renovation. The owner of the garden devised a year-round plan of blue, white and yellow (salvia, ageratum, petunias, alyssum), plus pots of the pretty pale pink Federation daisy called Sugar and Ice. In the background, are ficus Baby Ben, tree ferns, golden cane and scented Florida gardenia. 

Roof Garden

Living in the city means sometimes we don't have enough space for garden. Why don't we use our roof? Here is the roof in Jakarta. Garden surrounded by sky crappers.

Garden Roof in the middle of city. Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

The garden is so clean and wide. We can have lunch or breakfast here. However, Jakarta is hot. So you will have sweats during finishing your lunch here. 

Plant Pots in the Garden

Sometimes we want to have a clean garden. It means, we have garden with some stones, however we still want to have plants in the garden. We avoid the soil that will make the stone garden dirty. 

Some plant pots ideas

We can use some pots to put plants there. This is common in Indonesia. The plants we use here usually plants that need not the water much or minimum care.  


Here we can see some bonsai trees and a pot of succulent. They don't need so much water daily. Thus, the rest of water or soil don't make the stone dirty. 

French Affair - in style of furniture

Roset is a brand of furniture maker from France that at first produced walking sticks and umbrellas. That was in 1880.

Today, Ligne Roset is an international name for contemporary furniture. We can see that the furniture is adventurous, adaptable, innovative, modern, affordable and above all, comfortable.

one of the furniture

Each piece follows the company dictum: " anew design must be ergonomically correct, practical to make and use, at a price that is affordable."

It is possible to company to fulfill this by being forward thinking in its design and manufacture. Today Roset commissions leading edge European designers to create exclusive designs and then uses CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture) to the hilt.

Now, Roset is becoming well-established in many countries. The stores are open in Zurich, Beirut, Prague, Chicago, Moscow, Sydney and Melbourne.

Its introduction in Sydney and Melbourne is in conjunction with already well-known French furniture company, Grange. 

Quatre Saisons

Quatre Saisons is one of the largest private gardens in Western Australia open to public, Quatre Saisons or Four Seasons was named after a heritage rose with a lineage dating back to the 13th century and ancestor of many of today's roses.

This amazing garden presented by a Perth rose gardener, Donna Brown. She presents her rare and heritage varieties to the world starting five years ago with charity days and proving so popular it is now on display for two seasons a year.

Some of rose collection of Quatre Saisons

She gardens on a hectare of the four-hectare property. She is concentrating on rare and heritage roses and intensively underplanting them with annuals and perennials. The location is at Glen Forrest, 35 km from Perth. Now, the roses at Quatre Saisons are more than thousand and the numbers are creeping up.

Donna trained in fine arts, painted large colorful oils. So she is always experimenting with color schemes and each year sees a new parade of annuals following her latest ideas. She does mainly botanical works, including illustrating the National Heritage Rose Journal.

The climate there is perfect for roses but the soil is "terrible". Donna built up garden beds so she could fill them with exactly the soil she needs and keeps up heavy mulching.

Quatre Saisons is open October 1 to December 24, 10am - 5pm, Sunday and Monday, Thursday and Friday, and open again in autumn. Peak viewing time is late October and early November.