Dorm Room Decorating Ideas - Decorating a Delightful Dorm
Lively colors, bright and cheerful, jazzy or exotic: be individual when considering dorm room decorating ideas and pick colors that make you feel good but, most of all pick colors that reflect your own personality.
How about hot pink or a sassy purple—or electric blue? Fiber optic lights, one of the new generation lava lamps and Christmas tree lights can all be strung around for effect.
An important factor before you really start putting any sort of dorm decorating ideas into place is to check what you are allowed to do and what is likely to be frowned on. Nails, blue-tac and adhesive are acceptable in some places and not in others: it is possible to buy low adhesive tape to reduce unsightly wall marks and keep damage to a minimum.
However, before the posters go up, you and your dorm mate [if you have one] need to decide on the basics.
You may want to divide your living and sleeping space into separate areas, or decorate the whole lot as one. Decide on your color scheme and then choose how you are going to coordinate the soft furnishings.
Charity shops, second-hand stores and car boot sales are all ideal places to buy soft furnishings cheaply. Most of us have some personal item that we feel we really cannot live without such as a really colorful bed throw in a razzmatazz of colors.
You can always decorate with an eye to dorm room decorating ideas that reflect this particular item. Decide where you are going to place your bed and where you are going to have your study area.
Find a comfy old chair—a nice saggy chair is really comfortable to curl up in at the end of a tough day. These are easily found in secondhand stores everywhere.
Decide on functional or funky—or incorporate both if you can. How about a funky purple fridge to store cans and keep drinks chilled? Plenty of cushions and rugs make any room seem like home and these can easily be fitted into any dorm room decorating ideas.
A cork pinboard really is a good idea for pinning up notes and messages, with colored postcards dotted around the pinboard—there's no rule to say you can't go out and buy postcards you might fancy. People usually seem to wait for postcards to be sent to them—but why?
They are so cheerful, so make use of them: they are so cheap to buy and create a lovely sense of relaxed freedom. Lighting needs to be functional but there is no reason why it cannot be funky as well.
With any dorm decorating ideas you do need plenty of lighting, especially if you are spending hours studying in the evenings or at night. Straining your eyes need not be necessary as there are many shops selling really cheap table lamps—anything from anglepoise lamps to simple puck lighting. It's all good.
Storage is always a problem in small spaces but, even here, there are loads of options when considering dorm decorating ideas. Anything from covered cardboard boxes to the clear or colored plastic boxes which come in different shapes with their own fitted lids.
As long as you bed is not a boxed divan you can usually get two of the underbed plastic boxes to fit underneath: these are very useful for keeping study materials and books out of sight. An array of baskets hanging in tiers from the ceiling can take all sorts of miscellaneous items and keep them tidy but in one place.
