In This 450-Square-Foot Apartment, the Kitchen Is Three Rooms in One
Rent Like You Mean It is a series all about giving our rental spaces a new lease. We’ve rounded up a whole host of refreshing spruce-ups (and cover-ups), impactful DIYs (plus how to get them back to square one when you leave), and peeks at real-life rental transformations. Because a lease should never stop you from having a space that feels like yours—even if it’s only for a year.
Carly Fuller’s 450-square-foot NYC apartment is a testament to all the big, small, and medium upgrades you can make to a rental space. In the home she shares with her fiancé, Martin (in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan), she’s done at least 50 different upgrades to make it feel completely personalized—and quite frankly, look nothing like the original space.