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I rent a room from my parents cuz it's cheap, I can save money, and they get a part time caregiver (my mother is frequently sick). They just bought a house, brand new build, never been lived in before. Beautiful white walls with a subtle gray trim, doors, cupboards. Brass furnishings and handles. Lots of sunlight all day long from long windows scattered elegantly throughout the house.
My dad is a tinkerer at heart, so he's poured a lot of time into the house. Built a fence around the backyard, searched high and low for cabinets to match the others already there, brought in new cabinets to expand the kitchen, screwed them into place on a backboard screwed to the studs in the wall. He's fixed the garage to his liking, has got a lil man cave going on in the back bedroom, hired a contractor to match the marble counter and backsplash in the kitchen to the expanded cupboards.
He just bought himself a new lawnmower and his next project is to build himself a little work shed in the backyard that both suits his needs and complies with HOA laws.
When we first moved in, the realtor left nails in the walls from hanging decor. My dad flipped. Said there'd be no holes in his wall, that they'd better compensate him for the damages, warned mom and I not to go sticking stuff into the wall.
We've been here almost two months, so I bought myself some command strips to start hanging some of my artwork and tapestries in my room. Id tried them with my tapestry before and it never really worked, had to use thumb tacks, but I love that tapestry so I was determined to make it work while following my "landlord's" rules.
Obviously, the tapestry kept falling so I've abandoned that beautiful piece of artwork. Now I just have to remove the command strips. RIIPPP, ohhh there goes the beautiful white paint.
So I've stuck the command strips back in place until I can color match paint and try to fix my mistake... The only bad thing is I've got 3 other items hanging from those same command strips. I will never remove those items in my entire life.
TL;DR: "Landlord" says no holes in wall (tacks, nails, etc), I try using command strips, take off a chunk of the paint in a brand new highly personalized home two months into living there. Now I gotta fix it before the landlord finds out.
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