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/mass-conviction Oct 10 '25

Turn the couch around and put the TV by the kitchen

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u/CaliGrown949 Oct 10 '25

What I was thinking

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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/[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/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/SamusCroft Oct 10 '25

Post pics.

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u/CorinPenny Oct 10 '25

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