New House Project Part 1

So rentals are always a bit of a pain, things falling apart and real estates never doing anything. The new place is pretty bad, half the vertical blinds are missing, there are water stains on the walls, and the carpets are horribly stained. 

But it has a lot of potential. It's so bad, that I don't think the owners could complain if we did a bit to fix the place up. First I wanted to rip up this square of carpet by the front door. Not sure what evils happened here, but it was already a replacement piece that was stained, so it was easy to rip up just that bit without ripping up the whole carpet. 

We bought some carpet tiles from Bunnings, I think they were only $2.00 each. I cut them with a Stanley knife into strips, and made a chevron pattern. To keep it all together, I stuck the pieces onto some heshan fabric with liquid nails. It fit in the hole left by the old carpet quite snuggly, and didn't need to be fixed down at all - if the real estate really has a problem, I can put the old carpet back when we leave!

Much better. Next I think I'll paint the door.