Small space. Rented walls. Still a home worth sitting in.
Fernhavenly is a home and plant blog for people whose square footage is not negotiable.
Most decorating advice quietly assumes things you may not have; a spare room, permission to paint, a wall you’re allowed to drill into, a budget that starts where yours ends. This site assumes the opposite. Everything here is written for small, rented, real spaces, and for the kind of home that feels calm rather than styled.
What this site is about
Four things, mostly:
Small-space and rental decor. Reversible, no-drill, landlord-safe. Ideas that come with you when you move.
Calm, natural styling. Clay, oat, sage, linen, rattan, wood and ceramic. Warm minimalism rather than cold minimalism; rooms that feel soft, not empty.
Plants that live in apartments. Low-light, hard-to-kill, renter-friendly. Plus the part almost nobody writes about: how to actually style them, on shelves, in corners, on stands, without turning your living room into a greenhouse.
Storage that doesn’t look like storage. Organisation as a design decision, not a productivity system.
And seasonally – autumn, winter, and the January reset – the version of all four that fits the time of year.
The idea behind it
A small home has one real advantage: every single thing in it is a choice. There’s no room for filler. A shelf, a lamp, a pot, a fold of linen; in 400 square feet, those decide the whole mood.
Plants are the fastest version of that. One trailing pothos on a bookshelf changes a room more than a gallery wall does, costs less, and doesn’t need a single hole in the plaster.
That’s the whole point of view here: small, rented, calm, alive. If a room can be quiet and full of life at the same time, it’s doing its job.
A note on how this site makes money
Some links here are affiliate links, which means if you buy something through one, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Fernhavenly also runs display ads.
Neither changes what gets recommended. I don’t feature things I wouldn’t put in my own home, and I’d rather link to a $30 planter that’s right than a $200 one that pays better.
Come along
New ideas land every week, and the seasonal ones land early; Pinterest runs about two months ahead of real life, and so do I.
Follow on Pinterest – that’s where most of this starts.
Questions, corrections, or a room you’re stuck on: fernhavenly@gmail.com