Looking sophisticated and pretending like it’s no big deal is the epitome of hipster culture. And you can give it a go with this little home decor tip and a few tension rods.
Mount them in levels in the inside of your window frame, and drape a piece of fabric over them to give a faux roman shade look. And when your friends ask you about it, just shrug, say you stumbled upon it in a thrift store in Berlin, and act like it’s not even that special.
Go Nuts
By this point, even a one-legged dog would understand that tension rods are limitless and are probably the key to world peace. They can also be used for decoration, though.
Take some of those fancy guest plates you never use (because you are not Marie Antoinette and your friends don't really have standards when it comes to the dish they eat their ramen noodles from), make holes down the middle, and stick your rod through them. Secure them in place, and decorate them however you like.
Shampoo Rack
Storing your shower items properly is what makes the difference between enjoying your shower and trying not to trip over your facial scrub. And just because you have a curtain rod holding your shower curtain, doesn't mean your shower can't use another one.
Mount a tension rod on the wall opposite your shower curtain, add some S-shaped hooks, hang little plastic baskets on them, and welcome your shampoo to its new home.
Beauty Products Rack
Hair clips, makeup, combs, hair ties, bobby pins, shaving cream, razors. Much like your phone charger, you hate how dependant of these things you turned out to be. But there is something you can do in order to show them they're not your parents/bosses/landlords and therefore YOU control THEM. YOU bought THEM with your own money. You are their god.
Mount a small tension rod and curtain clips inside your bathroom cabinet/bedroom closet, and start clipping stuff. Lord knows putting them in a drawer hasn't been working well anyway.
Drawer Space Divider
It's time we have the talk. The talk about empty takeout containers. It's nice you're trying to go green and reuse those plastic containers, but letting them pile up in the kitchen drawer you never open does not constitute as reusing.
The chaotic mess in that drawer can be contained (get it? contained? containers? ugh, nevermind) using a nice tension rod and a little effort. Separate the containers by color/size/material/political opinion, or however else you see fit.