College Decor Checklist

Alright all you cute college gals! It's that time of the year ... getting ready for college! Pretty soon, all of us will be gone and away from our homes, so we need to make homes for ourselves! What's the best way, in my opinion, to make your brick-and-cement dorm room feel like home? Decor!!!

1. Colorful bedspread - the bed is probably the biggest thing in your room so it's gotta be the focal point! Make it cute with:

• matching pillows - you can make your own by getting a pillow stuffer (round or square) at a craft store and then getting a legit adult to help you sew cute fabric or fabric flowers on it
• big blanket - nothing is cozier than a big fluffy blanket in the middle of winter in Utah, lemme tell ya!
• make it everyday! if my bed isn't made, it feels like my whole room is a mess
• enjoy!

2. Wall decor - you will probably have brick or cement walls. Or the walls will be just plain ugly! So you gotta make it cute!

• cute corkboards - you know that fabric you used to sew your cute bed pillows? if you have extra, you can glue the fabric on some pieces of square corkboard and then use "BYU Housing Approved Tape" or something like that to put the corkboard pieces in a nice arranged fashion on your wall by your bed - this will not only make your room look more matchy but it will also let you pin notes and reminders somewhere you'll see everyday!
• posters or artwork - if you have posters or artwork you love from home, you can bring those too and get posterboard (in a color that will match your bed) to use as a backdrop for the poster
• letters of your name - alright, so I'm being a bit promotional here but I got some letters at the Parent Teacher Store to spell my name and my roommate's name. They are super cute and I'll be putting these on my wall.
• butcher paper! - you can't paint your walls, but you can tape giant pieces of paper to your walls! I didn't do this in my room last year, but we did it in our kitchen for a "quote wall" - now THAT was fun haha.



3. Organization - I promise, if you can come home to a clean, organized room, you will feel so much better about your day, no matter what happens.

• WalMart's got it all - okay, we all know Target is more expensive. WalMart has a ton of different colored plastic bins - not everything has to match, but if you can kind of choose a color scheme (for example, you only use light blue, lime green, and yellow) then stick with it!

*** Remember, wherever you are living, there will be some rules about what you can hang up with what. For example, where I was living, you couldn't put tape on the walls because it would peel the paint. But I invested in "mavalous tape" (bought at the Parent Teacher Store) which doesn't rip paint off walls and it sticks pretty well too. Check with your housing people before you hang anything up to make sure it won't go against any codes or rules.

And remember, have fun!!! You'll be on you own and this is your own territory - make it yours! :)



This was my room last year - I got the hot pink and brown twin bed set at Ross and my grammy helped make the pillows. We got the fabric at JoAnn's in the clearance fabric section. The letters are from the Parent Teacher Store. I got a matching bedside lamp at Wal Mart.

Stay tuned for pics of my new room in late August! :)

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