The listing I'm looking at has the exact same kitchen (albeit painted pale blue) and the exact same fireplace, even down to the dark markings on the orange circle details. I'm pretty certain it's the same flat.
I find this saga as boring as everyone else, but..
I didn’t realise the fireplace was just painted a darker colour but it doesn’t change the fact there’s an extra door, the view from the windows are different and other minor differences, as you said the kitchen wasn’t blue when she moved in. The whole building was renovated into flats by the same developer and all the units have almost identical fixtures and fittings.
It’s a bit of a moot point anyway because hypothetically there is nothing stopping the owner of a property listing it for rent and sale at the same time and accepting whatever offer came first. You can sell properties with sitting tenants in the UK too.
UK rentals do allow changes (paint, holes for shelving/pictures, etc) but you have to make ‘good’ when you leave which means repainting or getting walls repaired to a professional standard or you risk loosing your deposit which is why most people don’t do it. If your landlord gave you a firm no you just got unlucky. Rent in London and the previous tenants paint job and wallpaper might still be there. You can take light fittings down, keep them safe in a cupboard and put them back up when you leave - common sense.
Brittany’s view of sustainability doesn’t go beyond fabric, it’s almost greenwashing in a way. My main gripe with this is most clothing she promotes as sustainable based on the fabric content is troublesome in other ways and mostly made in countries synonymous with questionable ethics, what is the point of buying an item made of organic cotton when it is made by slave labour?
I’m fortunate enough to go to Japan a lot, pre Covid of course, because my boyfriends family live there and most Asian clothing brands (Korean and Japanese) are made in China, even the higher end ones Brittany mentions. I used to be in two minds about this because a Japanese company getting clothes made in China is like a British company getting clothes made in continental Europe, expect it isn’t because of slavery.
Comme des Garçons clothing is made in Japan and most of the fabric is sourced from within Japan too, which is partially why it’s expensive, obviously you’re paying for the name. But when you put it into perspective that not all factories in Japan make ‘expensive’ things, when Boursin (cheese) can afford to have a factory in Japan to serve the Japanese market then there is no excuse for a clothing company not to use Japanese labour.
Anyway that was a really longwinded way of me saying that I don’t think Brittany is fully committed to sustainability because otherwise she would consider air-miles, ethics, etc too. I think she’s aware she has to mention sustainability because of her platform but equally if she truly cared about sustainability has the resources to do it properly.