Your Dorm Room Can Reflect Your Taste

Going to college opens up a world of exciting new experiences, one of them being life in a dormitory. Virtually every college student looks at their small dorm room as a chance to express their individuality. With a good imagination, any bleak, empty dorm room is easy to turn into a student's haven and retreat. By using hot glue guns, double-sided tape, scissors and bulk reams of material in a favorite print, students can customize their dorm room to suit their style.
In small spaces, furniture should fill more than one need, doing double-duty. A small apartment sized refrigerator that sits on the floor makes the perfect base for a microwave oven. By stacking them, it doubles as a small table. On top, there is room for a carousel that holds plates, silverware and cups. Kitchen supply stores are wonderful for convenience and storage ideas that keep things neat and hidden.
Every fabric store will have a spot with discounted reams of material in assorted fabrics, prints and colors. Remnants are very affordable, and can pull a dorm room together by having a central design and color scheme. For example, an animal print would look amazing with a few green plants and posters on the walls of jungle animals. Wall sized murals are also a fantastic way to create more space visually. Murals stick to the wall by static-cling, making them perfect for dorm rooms where painting the walls is not allowed.
A lot of dorm room necessities, such as small wastebaskets and throw pillows, are on sale in out-of-season colors. Later, cut out the appropriate shape in the fabric that was picked and use the hot glue gun to cover the item, or just add borders along selected edges. Customize a plain lampshade, wastebasket, and edges of bookshelf's, window frames, light switch covers or anywhere else to produce a themed dorm room. The idea is to have several pieces of the chosen fabric as a highlight in each place in the room. For areas unsuitable for hot gluing, use double-sided sticky tape, this is inexpensive at office supply retailers.
Incorporate several lamps that give off soft lighting, and then turn on in different combinations to create the feeling of varied spaces. For a finished look, avoid unframed posters. Mirrors and mirror tiles also add the illusion of additional space. In addition, always avoid cluttering with too many knick-knacks, you can do that by alternating them in and out of a storage space.