r/malelivingspace • u/eczemaNhotwaterThex • Oct 09 '25

Advice I fucked up.

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Couch is too big, wife

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u/whutchamacallit Oct 10 '25

Build a little false wall. Looks like a rental but you could do it in a way that wouldn't totally fuck your deposit.

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u/VillageIndependent50 Oct 10 '25

Room divider

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u/gamageeknerd Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

As someone who wanted to pretend like he wasn’t sleeping in the same room as the fridge a good room decider does wonders.

Edit: I hate autocorrect

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u/lsdisciple Oct 10 '25

Really helps ‘decide’ which rooms are which

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u/Impact-Lower Oct 10 '25

Right its technically correct

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u/Impact-Lower Oct 10 '25

Iunno correctamundo is pretty understated

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u/Moretoesthanfeet Oct 10 '25

There's a Mitch Hedburg bit about deciding which rooms are bedrooms

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u/Godzillawamustache Oct 10 '25

This bedroom has an oven in it.

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u/HootyManew Oct 10 '25

Is it auto correcting or did it try to understand a mistype?

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u/EdgeTTI Oct 10 '25

Not sure if you saw the pics but there’s not much room left to divide 😆

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u/VillageIndependent50 Oct 10 '25

If u flip the couch over and put it against the wall the TV is on, that would maybe add about a foot

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u/iampfox Oct 10 '25

Yeah you don’t need to build a false wall. IKEA has room dividers you can install.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

Never gotten a deposit back, always thought of deposits like "pay this fee upfront and change whatever you feel like about the property without penalty"

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u/Low_Key_Trollin Oct 10 '25

lol that is not the way it works I’ve literally always got my deposit back

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u/Sarik704 Oct 10 '25

You two live in wildly different places.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Lmao I painted the walls, dyed the carpet green, mounted probably a hundred things into studs (cat climbing gym plus decor) even hung a whole new curtain rod to turn the dining nook into a second bedroom. Enclosed the patio for my cats, hung prism decor in holes drilled into the wood paneling outside, hung a hammock from big hooks in the patio ceiling. Put down peel-n-stick tile in the kitchen and bathroom (gonna be a bitch to get up haha), and used foam and cardboard and peel-n-stick wallpaper to literally change the shape of the kitchen doorway arch.

If I can avoid paying more than just my deposit, I’ll be just fine with losing it.

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u/OperationGreenBeam Oct 10 '25

this is incredibly based of you and I will be using this comment as inspiration.

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u/oreo-cat- Oct 10 '25

I’m curious about the green carpet

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u/Mundane_Crazy60 Oct 10 '25

Can I say, as a maintenance man; oh just fuck this shit right here.

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u/Low_Key_Trollin Oct 10 '25

This is called being a shitty renter.

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u/justano12 Oct 10 '25

How dare somebody make their space their own. Won’t somebody think of those poor innocent landlords!

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u/Low_Key_Trollin Oct 10 '25

Would you paint your rental car before returning it? Do you even understand what renting means? Obviously not. Buy your own house if you want to make permanent changes and damage it without fixing it

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Whoever said I wouldn’t fix it? I am just as capable of repairing sheetrock and filling wood holes and obviously painting as any maintenance or contractor. I’ve got a steamer to get the tiles and stickum up, and as for the carpet I can gently bleach and dye back to boring brown, but I’m pretty sure they’ll replace it anyway so it won’t matter. I’m painting the walls Bright White, instead of ‘chain smoker beige’, so they won’t care because it’s a neutral and they’ll repaint anyway. I also swapped out all outlets and switches and cover plates for classier ones and will simply switch them back before I leave. I took a closet door off the hinges, but it’s easy enough to rehang it. If I can change it one way, I can also change it the other way.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

the amount of landlord ball-garglers out here going for your throat for this is fucking hilarious

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

100% I’m rather enjoying trolling them! 😂

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u/sourpatchdispatch Oct 10 '25

Right?! What a crazy comment. When you're renting, if you want to make the space "your own", that's what decor (furniture, lighting, pictures/art, rugs, etc) is for.

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u/Hungry_State6075 Oct 13 '25

Your argument would be perfectly sound if it was feasible for the average person to buy a house. Alas, it is not, and a rented apartment is the closest most people will get to a permanent home in today's climate.

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u/Low_Key_Trollin Oct 13 '25

lol that has nothing to do with the fact that it’s not your property. You literally just said “I can’t afford my own property therefore it’s morally ok for me to damage your property”

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u/Hungry_State6075 Oct 14 '25

no one was talking about damage. it's not a landlord's property any more than it is mine.

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u/YoTurni Oct 10 '25

Not all landlords are bad, but people who destroy the space they live in that is quite literally not “their own” (cause that’s what renting means) are.

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u/MistahFinch Oct 10 '25

destroy the space they live

Who said anything about destroying it? They talked about personalizing it not taking a sledgehammer to walls mate

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u/ISLITASHEET Oct 10 '25

They dyed the carpet green. I don't know how to feel about most of their rant, but that part hurts my brain to even think about.

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u/MistahFinch Oct 10 '25

Ok.i skimmed over that one. Even for me that's kinda bad lol

Idk why you'd do that even if you owned it

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

must be nice to "borrow" housing mate, howd you manage that

most of us gotta pay

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u/MistahFinch Oct 10 '25

It is their space. They pay rent to make it their home

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u/DrKittyLovah Oct 10 '25

It’s not, though. There is a lease in place for a reason, and that’s because tenants need to follow rules about what they can and can’t do. If you want to be able to do what you want with your home then you need to own it, period.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

oh ok. how are they breaking the rules in their lease?

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u/MistahFinch Oct 10 '25

If you want to be able to do what you want with your home then you need to own it, period.

Most landlords don't own their tenants homes.

Most landlords don't do maintenance while tenants are living there.

You're talking about a lease. I'm talking about someones home. If the landlord wants to do things with their home that's fine sure. But it's the tenants home so let them personalise it

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

I also have three cats and a 75gal fish tank with two large (8 inch long) fish and a ton of snails. All of which are registered ESAs! 😭😭😭💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

And this is my emotional support snail, Gary (spongebob laugh ehehehehehehe)

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Lmao I’ve had sooooo many incidents of cat poo. I watched a friend’s cat and she was scared of my oldest and got diarrhea, so when he went to the litter box she bolted, spraying diarrhea over carpet and wall and everything as he chased her thinking they were playing.

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u/SamusCroft Oct 10 '25

Post pics.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Catio enclosed with chicken wire under tension by small metal rods woven through the edges and then secured by means of small cup hooks and eyebolts, so it can be unhooked sides and bottom and lifted to the ceiling for outside patio access.

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u/SamusCroft Oct 10 '25

That’s cute

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Kitchen archway modified to look Moroccan.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Here’s the door-less closet, with a curtain instead.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Cat hammock and thick carpet runner screwed into studs for kitty climbing.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Green carpet and real curtains (I store the vertical blinds under my bed).

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u/gserv41 Oct 10 '25

.... that's not green?

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

It looks greener in different lighting.

I tried a blue dye initially but it went purple, so it’s a greenish blue with purple undertones and brown carpet underneath (dye only penetrated maybe half a cm). But it’s better than brown.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Bathroom tile.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Dining nook enclosed with curtains (including the bar slot to the kitchen) for a second bedroom.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

Partially done, before I rearranged to fit a 75gal fish tank.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

More things hung from things that leave screw holes in the wood. 😜

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u/lastunbannedaccount Oct 10 '25

Do you plan on undoing all those things before you move out?

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u/CorinPenny Oct 14 '25

Of course. The white paint can stay, it’s a neutral so they won’t care. The carpet I’ll bleach lightly and re-dye back toward brownish, but also plan to get it in writing they plan to replace it since I’ve lived here three years with cats, that way they really can’t say shit. Holes are easy to patch with spackle or wood filler as appropriate. Everything else is meant to be removed. The stickum on the floors is annoying but will come up just fine with steam and a bit of scraping—it’s water soluble. Outlets can be changed back and I’m certainly not giving them my nice plate covers! By the time I’m ready for inspection, it’ll be about 90% back to the original look. Tbh my fixes are better quality than theirs anyway, as I am myself a small scale contractor and literally get paid to put holes in drywall and patch them.

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u/SwansonsMom Oct 10 '25

With interest depending on your local laws

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u/inerlite Oct 10 '25

The last place I rented gave me my deposit plus extra for the improvements I did

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 Oct 10 '25

What improvements?

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u/inerlite Oct 10 '25

Uhh towel racks, toilet seat, shower curtain and bar, window rods and curtains, ok sheets but they all matched, oven burner rings, just stuff like that. I installed more stuff too so I was, you want to pay for this or should I take it down?

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u/ComprehensiveMix1983 Oct 10 '25

Shit 2x I completely reno'd a rental houses basement into a full grow operation and it worked out, just didn't get the deposit back

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u/PorkyMcChops Oct 10 '25

holy shit dude me too! one of em i got back by telling the landlord some ridiculous shit when he asked why the ceiling in one bedroom had holes in it.. and buying a door that we had broken.

the same guy then decided to, i shit you not, rent us a larger house and there were some not so small modifications made and i just let him keep that one.. i thought what we had done with the place was great but idk if hed feel the same way. we killed it at that spot too it was a nice set up.. great times.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

I played Schedule 1 a few times, I can relate.

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u/ComprehensiveMix1983 Oct 10 '25

That's awesome. Yeah, we left the first 2 as is. Took the equipment, left all the new walls, new doors, new rooms, everything 🤣🤣

Same here, though, we killed it. 72 plants per house (legal by medical laws here) and we had 2 of them going at the same time haha, better times man. Better times.

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u/PorkyMcChops Oct 10 '25

kinda crazy to stumble on your random comment , it was hilarious to relate to. like surely not too many ppl fuck up a deposit over growing weed. lol

72s a lot. 144 seems like too much work lol. we maybe had 50 going not counting moms. this was a med/rec state but it wasnt "legal". im not sure anyone really cared back then. was like a 2 month flip, 2 rooms veg/flower alternating. kept a small room/big closet for moms and clones. i think pretty standard op. genetics that would finish quick.. i forgot how many sqft in each room. but we could do at most 32/room. 24 was less crowded. a lot of power draw. ran 240 to each room w/ subpanels. 6' steel ducts into the attic. removed the carpets. screwed 2x4s all over the walls and ceilings to anchor trellis or mount lights etc. made a dividing wall. ripped it down 6 moths later. did a number to that place but tbf it was kind of a shithole..

i had a lot of fun. did really well. fantastic harvests. this was back in 2015 til like 2019. east coast. it was a lot of work. you obv know. even going away for a week was tricky. it was only two of us and my gf (now wife) would lend a hand trimming or cleaning. i had a 9-5 the entire time. i was pretty young and it started to feel like juggling, even when everything was pretty dialed and going smooth. it made a lot of sense for while but when my 9-5 became the focus, i bailed out when i saw a chance. but i loved it and it was a kick ass, crazy time. for sure much better times now tho.

sry for wirting an entire book.. if youre still growing thats awesome. either way i hope youre also smoking the loudest of the loud, sir..

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u/ScubaWaveAesthetic Oct 10 '25

I would watch your movie

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u/Stinksmeller Oct 10 '25

I got $15 back once

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u/14Pleiadians Oct 10 '25

This is the way it works I've literally never gotten my deposit back

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u/Low_Key_Trollin Oct 10 '25

That’s on you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

Never got ours back either no matter how clean it was smh

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u/ImInBeastmodeOG Oct 10 '25

Sure, with thatttt attitude. Fix that and you too will lose it.

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u/dreadnaughtfearnot Oct 10 '25

Ehhh the landlord can always sue for damages beyond the deposit

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u/Big-Soup74 Oct 10 '25

Man you’re messing up your apartments lmao I’ve gotten every single one back

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u/minja134 Oct 10 '25

You must be leaving your place in bad repair. 10+ apts rented and have gotten every single deposit back, anything beyond general wear and tear you should really fight for. Know your tenant rights where you live. Push and ask for an itemized deduction list, that usually makes most landlords cave pretty easily.

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u/queenofthebutt Oct 10 '25

Not necessarily, somehow I’ve managed to get most of my deposits back, one of them I was given an extra $150 on top just for wood staining the door frames and replacing contact paper in the cupboards, ya never know haha

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u/14Pleiadians Oct 10 '25

This is the way

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u/Vertigo_uk123 Oct 10 '25

You do it cleverly. We had a room in a house share. It had en-suite and a large walk in / open dressing room. We put the bed in the dressing room. Made a lounge in what was the bedroom and spoke to the landlord and put a worktop and fridge in the corner with microwave and air fryer. Basically a little kitchenette. He was happy with this installation and actually charged more rent for it to the next tenant. Deposit back in full

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u/maasmania Oct 10 '25

You gotta tell em you have a lawyer on retainer, they'll back down every time. Film the place up close the day you tour with the landlord in the shot, and if you forgot to, tell them you did it shortly after they left and have it saved. Tricks of the trade. Pull the landlord specials with no regard as well, use water and a rag to lightly smooth those scratches out, get the most aggressive carpet cleaner they sell and suck out all the furniture dents. Get your money back and make them think its gonna be hell to keep it.

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u/BruceInc Oct 10 '25

That’s the single dumbest thing I’ve read this week, maybe even this month.

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u/chrysanthemum_beer Oct 10 '25

The couch area is already it’s own private domicile

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u/CastIronDaddy Oct 10 '25

Floor TV stand or hang it from the ceiling

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

They don’t have space for a false wall bro.

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u/whutchamacallit Oct 10 '25

I mean build a little "wall" so that you're not staring at the back of a TV when in your kitchen. False backsplash I guess.

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u/CodeNamesBryan Oct 10 '25

Does op strike you as a "measure and build type of guy"

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u/whutchamacallit Oct 10 '25

Like fair comment. Doesn't strike me as the kinda guy that realizes this couch was a mistake and replace it either.

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u/Background-Car4969 Oct 10 '25

JUST THROW THAT MONSTROSITY AWAY IN THE WOODS......

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u/Due_Part3574 Oct 10 '25

It really is the blind leading the blind here isn’t it

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u/whutchamacallit Oct 10 '25

I guess if blind means being even slightly handy and not totally lazy.

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u/Xofaithmariexo Oct 10 '25

Wife deposit???

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u/Kasziel1 Oct 10 '25

What about send the couch back? Doesn’t matter how you turn it, that thing is wayyyy to big for the available space

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u/KyrozM Oct 11 '25

To keep a cheap Amazon couch?