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If you’re moving into a private rental property, the chances are it’ll come unfurnished. While this gives you an opportunity to put your stamp on the place with your own choice of decor, it also means it comes without essentials like blinds or curtains.

But when living in a rental—short or long term—paying out the expense needed for fitted blinds isn’t something you’re likely to want to do. While you can take them with you, blinds and curtains are often made to fit certain window sizes, so could become useless when you move on.

In this blog post, we explain how paper blinds can help overcome this issue. Read on to find out more about using paper blinds in private rentals.

Blinds for rental properties

Aside from the cost of custom blinds and curtains to fit out your rental property, which could set you back hundreds of pounds, many landlords don’t actually allow you to drill into the property walls.

If blinds or curtains are not provided in your rental property, this is something which can make achieving a homely feel and ensuring privacy difficult. From keeping the contents of your home away from nosey onlookers to creating a cosy feel within your home, blinds are must have.

But if you don’t want to leave your blinds behind when you move out, leave holes behind which could lead you to lose your deposit or risk the chance of them not fitting the windows in your future properties, you need to find an alternative way to achieve privacy.

Paper blinds in white and blackout available online from BlindsInABox offer a cost-effective and temporary solution suitable for private rentals.

The pros of paper blinds

Paper blinds are an easy way to keep prying eyes out of your rental property, without forking out for custom made alternatives. Moreover, they’re a cost-effective and fast solution which allows you to achieve a homely feel in your rental home.

There are many benefits to using paper blinds in rental properties, including:

• Cost efficiency – If you’re living in a rental property on a temporary basis, the last thing you want to do is unnecessarily pay out for expensive permanent blinds. Paper blinds offer a temporary and low-cost solution which can see you through the duration of your tenancy period.
• Easy to fit – When you’re fitting blinds in a house that doesn’t belong to you, the last thing you want to do is start drilling, or anything else that could lead to permanent damage. Because paper blinds are so light, they can be simply stuck in place, offering the ultimate damage-free solution.
• Removable and reusable – Paper blinds are meant for temporary situations, such as renting. When you move on, they can too. You can easily remove your blinds, reapply the plastic which protects the adhesive side of the blind then resize and reuse them in your new abode!
• Recyclable – Temporary blinds aren’t made to last forever. Once you’ve found your forever home and upgraded to permanent blinds, you can simply recycle these, making them an eco-friendly solution with minimal wastage!

Paper blinds from BlindsInABox

Are you living in, or moving into, a private rental which needs temporary blinds? What are you waiting for? Purchase your temporary paper blinds online today from BlindsInABox and they’ll arrive in the post within 2 working days.