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Watch for sales after the first of the year on sheets. Look for flat sheets that have a pattern you like. Cover a wall focal with the sheets using decorative thumb tacks. For an upholstered wall look use a layer of quilt batting under the sheet and apply the tacks in a diamond pattern.
Use the white walls to advantage as a neutral background for some large framed prints and put the color you are craving in your accessories.
Buy a flood light or two or three and put different colored lamps in each. place on floor and conceal them in a grouping of plants. Point the lights up onto the largest blah wall you have and arrange them to overlap creating a wall of color.
I used a wallpaper border that was WIDE and gently stapled it up above the kitchen cabinets. It would have been easy to take down but when I left, my landlord said it was OK, just leave it.
Don't forget throw rugs. If you buy basically "flat ones" you can even stencil on a design to them. I have used acrylics paint on them and even washed them with moderate success.
Depending on the size of the windows, you may want to hang your own purchased valance or other window covering. Just be sure to keep all the landlords neatly folded or hung, ready to rehang when you leave.
