By Gizem Yetim
Special to the Chronicle
Tired of looking at the same walls? Well here are new, cheap and simple ways you can turn your dorm room into a comfortable, stylish home. First, you can decorate your walls by hanging up clothesline picture holders. You can put pictures up of your family, friends and good memories. You can see them all the time, decorate your wall and it’s cheap and simple to boot. It doesn’t just have to be photos – you can hang up notes, cards, movie ticket stubs and other paper memories to make your room much more interesting.
Another wonderful and helpful idea is to make a cookie tray magnet board. There’s No need to buy an expensive magnetic board, you can grab a fun, colored cookie tray at your local supermarket and stick it on the wall with a couple of poster stickers. Then, you can decorate it with different types of cute magnets and add notes and to-do lists to help you stay aware and organized all of the time.
Does your jewelry, especially earrings, get tangled frequently? Well, you can buy an affordable cheese grater, spray paint it with your favorite color and hot glue large beads on the bottom for feet. There you have it – a stylish, affordable, one-of-a-kind earring holder. This is much more affordable than paying all that money for a small, undesirable one at the mall.
The floors of many dorm rooms aren’t always the most desirable thing to look at, so to improve it we can buy an affordable, colorful, braided rug to cover those ugly floors. Now, you will have people stare at our stylish rug, rather than our dull, hideous floor. Another way to cover up our ugly floors is by making colorful floor cushions. First, you cut strips of colorful fabric that you enjoy. Then, you sew them onto larger fabric circles. After that, you stitch them together and fill them with cotton to make giant, comfy floor cushions that help you with more sitting area and covers your floor.
Because we’re college students, our laundry starts to pile, then we have to go out and buy a laundry basket that is probably expensive and takes up space on the floor. As if our rooms weren’t small enough. There’s also not a laundry basket large enough to hold all of that laundry, which makes the room messy and ugly. Here is a brilliant idea to help you stay organized: a pillowcase laundry bag. All you have to do is attach an embroidery hoop to a nice pillowcase – it could even be a pillowcase of your favorite show. Then, just add a hook on the back of your door and hang it with a little rope and there you have an always-open, stylish, organized laundry bag.
After all these ideas and wonderful, trendy, homemade decorations, I expect everyone now to have a stylish, colorful dorm room – a room where you won’t get bored anymore and you always feel welcome when you come back from class. Have fun decorating!
