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I’m a renter in a 1bed in Cobble Hill. I love my apartment but I have really come to detest the exposed brick covering an entire wall of the apartment. It’s not that sort of attractive dusty looking brick, it’s glossy, shellacked, dark, yellowed, light-consuming brick. (And it’s nearly impossible to decorate around if you’re going for anything but the hip 90′s NYC loft look — which.. no.) My landlord will let me do just about anything in the apartment other than painting the brick, because it of course attracts a lot of people.

Does anyone have any suggestions or good ideas regarding how to temporarily cover up the brick?

Right now my current thought is to make floor to ceiling sized frames out of canvas stretchers and cover it with a neutral fabric and securing it to the wall with velcro. If it’s light enough I feel the velcro should hold it without affecting the wall in a way that would bother my landlord.

It would be lovely to have some sort of thin, hard, lightweight board that I could secure to the wall somehow — something I could paint and then remove when I moved out. Any ideas on that?