Designer tenants: How I make my rental house a home 

We ask interior design professionals who are long-term renters to share their secrets 

Stick-and-paste removable wallpaper is a temporary approach to making your rental reflect your personal taste (Hanging Gardens floral wallpaper mural by Marina Stupakova from Wallsauce.com, from €57 per sq m).

Anyone with a love of interiors will know this quote by William Morris, leading light of the Arts and Crafts movement: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

It’s a tall order for any of us but might seem impossible to achieve if you don’t own your home and have to contend with a lumpen sofa liberally styled with stains, set against walls finished in the rental special, magnolia.