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Architect and interior designer Anand Sheth plays around with saturated paint colors in unexpected ways.

Sophie Donnelly and her partner, Mark, have owned this 702-square-foot London flat for two years.

Cosmetic updates made a world of difference in this colorful, cozy Manchester home.

See inside this 600-square-foot Chicago rental of a Pakistani American woman who mixed both U.S. and Southeast Asian decor styles.

Julie Jeongeun Choi decorated her 100-year-old Belfast home by researching colorways and adding vibrant furniture.

Denise Rodriguez and her husband bought a run-down 1920s Sears Catalog bungalow 22 years ago, slowly turning it into a "year-round vacation destination," complete with lots of colorful, vintage, beachy collections — from bathroom mermaids to candy-colored pottery.

See how the owners of this 126-Year-Old London home have “drenched” the ceilings and walls in rich and cozy colors.

Lusanda and Victor Kula-Szilagyi have decorated their 800-square-foot London apartment using color to create warmth and comfort in every room.

Ashley Watson’s beautiful and cozy apartment is the ultimate retreat from the chaos of New York City.

This homeowner’s style muse is Keely Jones from “Ted Lasso” and Barbie.

Designer Michelle Sturgis’ cottage needed love when she and her husband purchased it, but they made sure to keep all the charming details like the original brick wall, railings, doors, and more.

Take a tour of a 990-square-foot light-filled rental apartment in the heart of Prague.

Maddie Hilbrant and her fiancé both value a warm, welcoming home to come back to at the end of the day.

Contemporary artist Hazel Dooney's small studio apartment, built in the 1960s by a famous modern architect, is used as an art studio and is incredibly energy-efficient. "It doesn't need lights during the day, heating during winter, or cooling during summer. It is almost like being half outdoors."

This apartment is packed with historic details — including the original ice box.

Layered wall art and limewash walls make this 700-square-foot rental apartment pop.

Christina Long runs a heavy metal magazine and has filled her Yonkers rental with musical instruments and her favorite things: "Art, lighting, and books that all reflect my identity as a queer Black woman."

See inside interior designer Jessica Blue’s colorful, maximalist Chicago home with smart storage and decor ideas.

Because Lili Pillet and her husband have moved so much, every single piece of furniture in their LA house has to be "affordable, practical, and possibly customizable (so I can change the color or the configuration to meet my needs)."

Aspiring designer Anna Cirenza’s favorite piece of art in her home is a Matisse Cut-Outs framed print that was the first thing hung upon move in. “It really informed the direction I wanted to go with styling the rest of my living room. I pulled a lot of colors from there and used that inspiration for a lot of my design!”

Kea calls their rental townhouse's private patio an "urban oasis. It's tucked away and looks like its apart of a tropical resort. I can relax there, read there, sleep there. Makes me feel like I’m in a completely different part of the world," they write.

See inside this Spanish design influencer’s Scandinavian-style Barcelona home that's incredibly warm and welcoming.

William Swinton-Ginsberg has been renting this studio apartment in Austin's Cherrywood neighborhood for four years, and built the kitchen table, which has a round gap that was designed to wrap around a cement column.

Peta Nind owns the Australian plant store Living Gifts Bendigo, and shares this rental house with her sons, dog, cats, and, of course, a lot of beautiful leafy plants.

Kelsey Smoot is a graduate student, but didn't want this rental apartment to feel "collegiate," so they leaned into pops of color for this apartment in a way that they hadn't previously done in past apartments.

Shop owner Marissa Wege, who owns Au Sable store, says she had the colors for her gorgeous modern kitchen “decided before anything else.”

Paula and her partner, Martin, have created a "vintage-inspired eclectic, somewhat cluttercore" home, including a gorgeous green home library with built-in shelves and a five-meter-wide gallery wall!

There's an orange-yellow living room, a light blue kitchen, a bold blue bedroom, a pink dressing room, and more in this interior decorator's beautiful Queens rental apartment.

Sanjana Ahid, her husband, and their cat babies have lived in this apartment for six years, and while nothing is too precious, everything was selected intentionally. It's a cozy, functional, lively, and soothing home.

See inside the stunning home of Katie and Cody, the duo behind popular IG account Highboy LA. They share oodles of interior inspiration with their vintage-filled 750-square-foot rental apartment.

Emmanuel and Katy have rented this loft in a building from the 1920s, and figuring out the layout was the biggest challenge because there are no walls in the main space.

A DIY separation wall makes a huge difference in breaking up the space.

The rental loft holds incredible architectural character, like 20-foot ceilings, original metal beams, wood planks, incredible original bricks, and a 15-foot paneled window that bathes the living room with sunshine.

See inside social media marketer Jessica Kane's maximalist, eclectic, mid-century modern Venice, California, bungalow she shares with her partner, Justin Lehmann, and their Siberian kitties, Mimi and Rosie.

With creative furniture placement and storage solutions, Ashley's place came together perfectly despite only being 450 square feet.

Amazingly, this chic Portland rental house is both a home for couple Jenny and Chris AND a home-based preschool. But it's not full of garishly colored kids' toys; it's a stylish space for both adults and kids. Although, everything is glued down and affixed to walls — just in case.

This is the tenth apartment Kit has lived in, in ten years and with this three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental apartment they share with a dog (and sometimes a roommate) they have put down more permanent roots and really make a space their own.

Rebecca van Bergen is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Nest, and the home she shares with her family has rooms decorated to feel like "nests or havens using twig, branch, or tree wallpapers; flora and fauna details everywhere; and dark paints."

Emily and her boyfriend made sure to focus on function when decorating their small shared studio apartment, including making visually separate spaces in the one-room rental.

The top floor is bright and airy, while the downstairs is perfect for a good night’s rest.

Photographer Nikki Ross and her fiancé, photographer and director Matt Barnes, have completely renovated this old church, turning it into an incredibly unique home with a slide, trampoline, fun furniture, art, and more.

Teresa Golpe is a Spanish interior designer who moved to Portugal three years ago with her husband, creating this bright, warm, spacious, chic, and sophisticated home in Lisbon.

Kenneth Llave designed this apartment to function beautifully despite the small size, transforming an interior wall into a custom window wall, updating cabinets, and reworking a dark bathroom.

Every room in this colorful, eclectic Miami apartment has a different style highlighting the renter’s philosophy of creating a “potpourri of interior design.”

Tarah Baker shares a 1500-square-foot house in Louisville, Kentucky, with her partner and four dogs.

"Everything I changed in the apartment is renter-friendly and can be un-done," explains Zoe Wetherall, an architectural and landscape photographer. "The biggest challenge was working with such a small space — making sure I could fit everything in and have enough storage."

After living in this same rental apartment for 13 years, Dave says the place was starting to feel stale and not adult enough. But he spent a few months and a few thousand dollars elevating his rental's style.

Tamera Walters has been renting this townhouse for two-and-a-half years and shares it with her husband, Max, and four kids (ages 7, 5, 3, and 1). She tells us about her home: With four kids under seven, our home is loud, fun, and full of systems. Every inch needs to be child-safe and friendly, but also feel like two adults live here!Every closet has been converted into rooms or play space. And we have even changed the primary bathroom into a small office.

Veda Banerjee combined touches of her Indian background with her love of Paris apartments with some lucky mid-century modern scores on Facebook Marketplace, all to create this colorful and cozy home.

After Marilou's 40-year marriage ended, she wasn’t sure if she'd be able to afford to live alone, but with careful planning she was able to buy a little one-bedroom condo in a town in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tour this exceptionally designed home for humans (and cats!) that's the home of Victoria Karieva, the lead architect and co-founder of Between the Walls. She bought this apartment with her husband, Volodymyr, two years ago.

Robert F Samuels Jr. (AKA "Bobby Trendz") refers to his home as "The Trendz Gallery," and it features a black-and-white minimalist but luxurious aesthetic with architectural elements, patterns, contemporary art, and mid-century design.

Tour Charlotte's large house she shares with her five kids, which feels completely colorful and one-of-a-kind, thanks to incredible DIY projects.

Tour this 880-square-foot rental apartment that's shared by two creatives; there are cool painted wall squiggles and a couple of fantastic secondhand scores.

Brooke Abcarian is the the principal designer of Carian Design, and shares this 1200-square-foot house in Redondo Beach with her husband, Scott, and their two kids.

During the pandemic Gillian Lyons moved to Savannah, Georgia, from NYC to be closer to her family, purchasing this 744-square-foot apartment.

Nadine Bacchus and partner, Juls, didn’t have a ton of money in the bank after buying this Victorian two-bedroom house, built in 1901. But, they saved money, then “completed a room, lived in chaos, saved a bit more, did another room. It was wild!”

Nicolas Lecoeur's rental apartment is a Haussmann-type space with moldings and parquet flooring, located in the historic district of Montmartre.

See the bland before photos and the colorful after photos of author, illustrator, and designer Megan McKean's stunning home in Malmö, Sweden.

"I consider myself to be a fun person, and I want to be surrounded by stuff that makes me happy," explains Federico Duarte, an art director, of this two-bedroom Valencia, Spain, apartment he shares with his partner, Pilar.

Rory Rockmore, celebrity jewelry designer by night, lives in this Los Angeles loft that’s “dedicated to any early ‘90s movie or sitcom with a ‘cool’ character who lived in a 'downtown' loft.”

See behind the cabinet doors to learn valuable, small-space organizing tips.

Lifestyle and food blogger Camilla Hughes lives alone in this small London rental studio apartment, so she has the "freedom to make my home exactly how I like it."

"Walking into our current house was like walking into a dream," admits designer Nadia Ramadan. The tall ceilings, woodwork, and built-ins work beautifully with all of the bold design choices and DIY projects that she and husband, Tariq, have incorporated over the past five years.

While architect Keaton Cizek would love to own and renovate his own home one day when he has the means, as a renter he finds "so much joy in making an apartment feel like an extension of myself as much as I can."

"My personal home style inspiration has a wide range, from traditional maximalist to English cottage home to Scandinavian clean lines to farmhouse to Rajasthani folk with its warm colors and block-prints, even a bit of New York loft-style with art-filled walls and plants," begins singer/songwriter Abhilasha Sinha.

One day Olivia Huffman was driving to work and saw something out of the corner of her eye in an alley: the "dreamiest, curved clamshell sofas" just sitting there, ready for the taking!

"This process can be an emotional one, but also brings clarity and perspective through our attachment to certain objects, memories, and spaces," says photographer Lauren Kolyn.

The kitchen in Courtney's SF studio apartment is no wider than her arms can spread out, but it is "character rich, with wood shelving painted pale blue."

Julie Finn has done tons of things to make her small space work, from a hand-me-down daybed to couch transformation, an easy TV-hiding hack, and creating as much smart storage space as possible.

Damini grew up in India and moved to the U.S. in 2016. "After four years of art school and three years into my graphic design career, this is the first place I've stayed at where I've run wild decorating and watched it transform into a space that feels like home (and part art studio)."

Thanks to the studio apartment's high ceilings and huge windows, as well as Leecy's brilliant small-space styling and organizing skills, her home feels much larger than it actually is.