Are you allowed to paint? We rented a housein Belize that had bright white walls with blood red trim. We painted the trim bright, clean, fresh white then painted each room. The living room was a soft beige (the color of sand), the kitchen a soft yellowish-gold (the color of morning sunshine), our bedroom was the soft blue of the morning sky, the office/2nd bedroom was watery green (like the ocean) and the bathroom was midnight blue (like th enight sky). It had old harvest gold fixtures, so this color detracted your eyes from them. You can do basically the same thing. Use the colors that are in the tile, but use different shades of them. Go lighter or darker depending on th eroom and the amount of natural light it receives. I wish you all the best!

Ouch, Lancewood! Nice read, FORM :)

Hi I just moved to a new home. One of the rules is nothing can be done to the walls. The walls are all off white. How can I decorate ? I’m unable to hang pictures or paint and I am terrified of using decals in case they tear the walls when I eventually leave. Please Help!

I can't see why you MUST connect a building to an electrical supply . Obviously some garden sheds , garages , farm barns and the like aren't 'powered' . Things like rental properties must be 'suitable for occupancy' , so you can't rent an unpowered house as a house , and in some cases you must even supply heating , heat pump , as well as working stove and shower ( I'm paraphrasing obviously ) . It is possible to provide most of that with gas or even a generator , but if it really came down to it , you'd need to disclose this before renting it out . To to revert back to a 'legal' distinction , these are rental requirements , not building code requirements . Having said all of that , you would need some sort of 'energy' supply , whether it be electricity , gas , generator , solar , your own dam or windmill , etc , and generally electricty is cheap to install and use , so it makes sense to have it installed or at the very least planned at construction . Slightly off subject but similar , a friend of mine bought an older caravan and it is way up the back of his farm -- he uses it maybe 1 night a month . He bought 2 large batteries , a 2000 watt invertor , some solar panels , but as a backup he bought a small generator that runs on LPG ( propane ) and as he cant get a vehicle close to the caravan , he carries in a 9kg bottle ( he has 2 so when 1 is empty he carries it out and gets it refilled for the next visit ) . He thinks that is better/easier than petrol or diesel .