Decorating Your Apartment

Apartment living is convenient, easy, and often the most cost-effective way to enjoy amenities that aren’t available in a single-family home. Decorating your apartment helps create a functional space with a personality that matches yours to inspire your creativity and promote relaxation away from your everyday cares. Keep reading to discover a few unique and easy ideas for decorating your luxury apartment in Denver.

Paint

Painting is one of the simplest yet most dramatic ways to give your apartment a complete makeover. While it’s often easiest to paint when you first move into a space, you can choose to paint your walls at any time for an instant facelift. Even if you’re not interested in large-scale painting, painting a single accent wall can make a big difference in the look and feel of any room. If you’re not allowed to paint your apartment walls, painting your furniture is another way to create more personality with your apartment’s décor.

Area Rugs

Area rugs add color and style to any room. A rug can also protect your apartment’s floors from everyday wear. Rugs are extremely versatile and fit into any room in your home—they lend warmth to tile or hardwood and contrast to carpeted floors. You can use an area rug as the focal point in any room or choose a more subdued floor covering for convenience and comfort rather than style. Choose a rug with color elements in similar tones to your walls, furniture, and linen, which will pull the entire room together and create a sense of completion.

Divide Your Space

If your apartment features one large room for dining and living, use your décor to divide this room into distinct functional spaces. Choose a different color theme for your living area versus your dining area. You can use rugs, lighting, and paint to differentiate the spaces while maintaining an open feel to your apartment. Artwork, bookcases, and folding screens are other excellent tools that can create separate spaces without causing them to feel closed in. While you should keep some design elements between these spaces the same to create flow, don’t be afraid to mix and match furniture styles and colors for a more eclectic feel.

Hang Artwork

Bare walls look impersonal and can even zap your mental energy, influencing your comfort level in your own home. Don’t be afraid to hang artwork to liven up your apartment and imbue the walls with your own personal style and taste. The right piece of art can act as a central point around which to design the décor of the surrounding room. Long hallways and narrow rooms can be lined with multiple framed pieces to take advantage of the walls rather than allowing the shape of the room to overwhelm your impression of the space. Consider having personal photos professionally printed, matted, and framed to create fine art out of your own life experiences.

Are you ready to create your own personal space in the heart of Denver? Alta Alameda Station is now pre-leasing luxury one-, two- and three-bedroom Baker apartments featuring top-notch amenities. Check us out on the web to view our apartment floor plans or contact us to submit an application or schedule a tour of our new apartment community.