When I know that I’m going to be moving out from an apartment soon, I commission a digital artist to draw it for me. Then I print it out and I have a cool art piece. If you love your current place but you don’t think you’ll spend the rest of your life there, you should consider doing the same.

Digital artists are much cheaper than I think they should be. I’ve paid artists between $200-$500 CAD[1] for my commissions, generally spread across one or two additional housemates. (You should expect to pay more – I limit my own commissions to the common areas since my bedrooms tend to be very plain, and solely used for sleep and other private activities. Also inflation exists.)

You can also consider hiring artists from developing countries if you want your dollar to go further, but I don’t have [...]

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(01:36) Commissioning An Art Of Your Living Space, Step By Step

(10:23) Sample intro email

(11:18) misc notes/considerations

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