4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Renting a crappy flat? Don’t think you’ll ever feel at home in said crappy flat? Stevie and Tessa look at ways you can cheaply make your rental a place that doesn’t make you want to burn it down. Because even if you’re only staying for a year, you deserve to spend that year without nude bulbs.
Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions.
Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
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0:18.0 | Hello, come on in, pull up a seat or stay, that. Stay standing. I'm Stevie. I'm Jessica. I'm Stevie. I'm Jessica. And we are, as ever, working at like how to help you be an adult without screaming all the time. |
0:25.3 | This one is about how to make your rental house a home. |
0:28.0 | Yes. |
0:29.0 | I was very bad. |
0:30.0 | I'm still renting. |
0:31.1 | I'm very bad at that. |
0:32.4 | I've only got good at it this year when someone else did it for me. |
0:35.8 | I didn't do it. |
0:37.2 | So moved in with my boyfriend two years ago, The Shadow. |
0:40.4 | Oh yeah. The Shadow was, very good at framing things. |
0:44.0 | Oh. I was very ashamed of myself. I was just really like, yeah, I mean if it wasn't for him, I just be like, |
0:49.0 | all the walls would probably still be bare. I'm very bad actually like doing it. I've been like, like yes I have great plans to do this and then I don't do it for about seven years and then I move out because obviously you move out every year when you're around to. |
1:00.3 | Yes it can be very very tricky because you you always feel like, well, this is just nothing. |
1:05.2 | It's not really mine, it's not mine, and I can't do anything. |
1:08.6 | Especially if you don't like the landlord, you're like, a horrible landlord that's their flat, |
1:12.4 | and then you hate them, then you don't want to do anything |
1:14.3 | also you are quite terrified to know what you can and can't change in case you lose your deposit. |
1:18.3 | They're taking such an enormous deposit of you. |
1:20.0 | The first rental property I had in London. It was just a very horribly decorated flat that |
1:27.3 | clearly no one cared enough about. And all of the furniture was from like, looked like from |
1:31.5 | the 20s, but not in like a cool vintage shop way in like a, well if I sit on that it will break, oh it's broken sort of way. |
1:37.6 | And when I opened all the cupboards to put my clothes in, there were like dead maggots in the cupboards. So I had to keep all my clothes in. There were like dead maggots in the cupboards so I had to keep all my |
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