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Affiliate disclosure: some of the links below are affiliate links. If you buy through one of them I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I bought and used every product mentioned here in my own apartment. The ring showed up in October. A mug of tea sat on my landlord-owned … Read more
Affiliate disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only link products I have paid for and used in my own rental apartment. Two hundred dollars of pretty desk accessories sat in a pile on my bedroom floor last spring, and … Read more
Affiliate disclosure: Some of the product links on StealTheDecor are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy through one at no extra cost to you. I only name products I have set up and used in my own rental. Three power bricks sat on the carpet under my window. … Read more
Disclosure: Some links in this post are affiliate links, which means StealTheDecor may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only link products I bought with my own money and installed in my own rental. Two feet of HDMI cable slapped against my shin every time I rolled the chair back. … Read more
The first one died in nineteen days. A fiddle leaf fig six feet of it bought on a Saturday because the nursery tag said “bright indirect” and my brain heard “any light at all.” By week three the bottom leaves were brown at the edges and dropping onto the rental carpet one at a time … Read more
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Nine days. That is how long a loaded hook often stays up on an orange peel wall before the whole thing peels off in the middle of the night and takes a framed print … Read more
Two feet of counter. That was the whole workspace in my first apartment kitchen and the toaster already owned half of it. Every morning started with the same shuffle of moving the kettle to reach the mugs and moving the mugs to reach the sugar. My lease says no drilling no paint no permanent shelving … Read more
Last Tuesday I stood in my living room and stared at three IKEA LACK shelves lined with random pots. Every plant sat at the same height. Every pot was the same beige plastic nursery container. The whole setup looked like a garden center clearance rack not a styled indoor plant display. My 650-square-foot apartment deserved … Read more
My apartment came with one north-facing window and a corner so dark that three real pothos died in it. The fourth plant I put there was plastic. And it looked plastic. Flat leaves shiny stems a black nursery pot and a friend who spotted it from the doorway and laughed. That was the night I … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Last Tuesday I pulled a bath towel off the rack and it felt like a sheet of cardboard. Scratchy. … Read more