Decorate-Furnish Your Condo

Decorate-Furnish your condo to create a feeling of home. Depending on your budget, your creativity and your energy level, you will either be hiring an interior decorator to decorate-furnish your condo or you may choose to do it yourself, or perhaps 'both'.

Regardless of who does it - it will be nice to see and feel the finished product of a newly decorated, furnished, or remodeled condominium.

Decorating-furnishing your condo, clearly makes it yours. It makes you feel good when you place things around you that represent 'you'.

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You may have purchased a pre-owned condo that is already furnished, but needs a face lift, or a new condo that needs, both, decorating and furnishing

The first questions to ask yourself when decorating - furnishing, or remodeling your condo are:

• Do I plan to rent the unit?

• Do I plan to keep it only for my use?

Unfortunately, renting your condo will create the need to remodel or refurbish more often than if you ONLY were to occupy it.

You will have to purchase items that can take potential abuse.

You may want to consider working with an experienced design consultant who can assist you with the entire process of remodeling and or decorating-furnishing your condominium.

They will assist you in determining your exact needs based on whether it will be rented or not. Often times, if you make your purchases through them, they do not charge for consultation.

If you are on a budget, you may want to use "phases" to accomplish your desired result.

Regardless of whether or not you use a professional to help you decorate-furnish your condo, it is best to put some sort of plan together to avoid costly mistakes when decorating-furnishing your condo.

Common Mistakes In Decorating - Furnishing A Rental Condominium

• Spending too much on carpet and other upgrades.

• Choosing furnishing and accecories before choosing paint colors and a design scheme (if any) for the walls.

• Using dark paints that tend to show wear, chip, scratch and make a small room look smaller.

• Choosing fabric colors and textures that tend to show wear and stains more than others.

• Using a lot of wall paper; it does not wear well.

• Purchasing verticals and blinds that usually prove difficult to maintain.

• Allowing too many people to occupy your unit. You may want to consider minimizing the number of people who will occupy the condo due to potential excessive wear and tear.

• Choosing the wrong fabrics can be costly as some wear better than others.

• Choosing poor quality outdoor furniture.

• Choosing an economy sleeper sofa.

• Choosing the wrong type furniture.

• Using custom and hand made items may be costly as they can break easily and be difficult and expensive to clean.

• Mirroring walls and selecting glass-top cocktail and dining tables can add the illusion of space, but the trade-off is that they will require more frequent cleaning.

You want your renters to like your condo so they will come back year after year and refer your condo to others.

It is a must to decorate-furnish your condo in such a way to ensure that your unit is attractive and desireable to your customers.

Better Choices Decorating - Furninshing Your Condo When Renting Your Condo

• Use lined curtains instead of blinds. The liner will protect the curtain from sun damage as well as what is inside of the condo closest to the window.

  Ideally it is best to use a sheer with a second rod so when the sun is very hot and bright you can have filtered sunlight and a view instead of darkness.

  Any fabric or leather can and will fade when exposed to bright sunlight.

  They also provide minimal light leakage for those who don't want to be disturbed by bright light while they are resting or sleeping.

• Choose fabric and patterns that hide dirt, spills, and stains.

• Use neutral paint colors in, what's called an eggshell texture, it is easily cleaned while not shiney. Use your accessories and fabrics to bring color into your rooms.

• Choose the right size furniture for your plan. Pieces that are too large will constrict traffic flow and make it awkward for guests to move about.

• Use easy to clean shower curtains, rugs, and placemats.

• Choose furniture that is easy to clean. Be sure that it will not be damaged by water and food spills.

• Choose sofa sleepers with an innerspring mattress over sofas to accommodate guests.

• TV cabinets with pocket doors protect your television.

• Investing in a higher quality of patio furniture is advisable as the constant exposure to sun, most of the time, will deteriorate the less expensive products faster.

• From experience I can tell you that beds are very important. If your guests can't sleep well due to the uncomfortable nature of a cheap mattress, they most likely won't be back.

A NON-Rental Condo gives you Unlimited Choices in Furnishing and Decorating

A professional design consultant starts a plan with an assessment of your needs and desires including each rooms function