Dorm Room Ideas
Your first days at college might be daunting, but they can also be a great time to explore. Expressing yourself through your dorm room will be a fun way to start your year at college. Here are 25 fun ideas for your dorm room.
- Esoteric Mandala Tapestry
- Instax Photo Wall
- Fairy Lights
- Personalize Your Belongings With Your Initials
- Realistic Fake Flowers
- Become A Real-Life Plant Mom
- Convenient Foldable Bed Tray
- Turn Your Bed Into A Makeshift Couch
- Practical and Fun Loft Bed
- Luminous Lamps
- And More …
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1. Esoteric Mandala Tapestry
One way to liven up your walls quickly without much effort is to buy one of these mandala tapestries. These busy patterns add some vibrancy and depth to an otherwise very bare room and are a great investment.
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“It really looks exactly like what is shown in the picture... The colors and warm tones give my room such a nice ambiance.” – Amazon mandala tapestry.
Alternatively, if you are looking for other tapestries, you should look at the botanical tapestries at Etsy.
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2. Instax Photo Wall
If you’re a fan of instant gratification, Fujifilm’s Instax cameras are for you. You can buy a starter Instax Mini 11 camera in a bundle that comes with film, a carrying case, a selfie lens, and a photo album. You will soon find you need more film and that can be bought here.
Once you’ve accumulated a few good photos, you can start tacking the photos to your wall and expand from there. Before you know it, you’ll be surrounded by a whole wall full of great memories!
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“This is perfect for a young lady looking to take photos! Prints out well and has lots of fun accessories.”
3. Fairy Lights
One of the prettiest things you can do with your room is put up fairy lights. At night, your room is transformed into a magical dreamland where anything is possible.
You can get some fairy lights and combine these with the Instax photo wall idea by pegging your photos to the fairy light wires.
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4. Personalize Your Belongings With Your Initials
You really can get almost anything personalized with your initial or initials these days. Why not start with the scatter cushions in your room? You can get some decorative alphabet pillowcases for scatter cushions. All the letters are available.
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5. Realistic Fake Flowers
Fake flowers can be very tasteful when good quality ones are purchased. Make your room look like the Bridgerton residence by buying these fake wisteria plants for your room. You can also buy this faux spring flower garland.
"My daughter used these for her bedroom, and she loves them! They are good quality and value for the money." - Amazon fake wisteria garlands.
“These garlands turned my room from bare to perfect. They do shed but not to a point where it’s annoying. If you are debating on buying them, take my advice and buy it.” – Urban Outfitters flower garland.
6. Become A Real-Life Plant Mom
Whether you have green fingers or you can only handle watering succulents, plants are a wonderful addition to any dorm room. Buy some gorgeous pots here and a hanging macrame plant holder here.
7. Convenient Foldable Bed Tray
If you’re lazy like me, you’ll be interested in a bed tray you can use to keep your laptop on while you’re doing online classes. Some of them even have a storage net on the side for your pens and a place for your coffee mug!
Because it’s foldable, it can be stored, for example, under your bed when you’re not using it. This is really an indispensable addition to your dorm room!
“The product is well built and sturdy. It is big enough for my laptop and drink and tablet and other things. Very nice size.”
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8. Turn Your Bed Into A Makeshift Couch
By placing many scatter cushions by the wall side of your bed, you can create a comfortable place for your friends to sit when they're visiting you.
“So soft and beautifully made.”
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9. Practical And Fun Loft Bed
If you're keen to save on space, you might want to invest in a loft bed with a desk at the bottom. These are super space-efficient, and sleeping upstairs will have you feeling like a child again.
"Sturdy and well-supported bed. The shelves are nice and sturdy too."
10. Luminous Lamps
Lamps can create a great ambiance, especially if they are specialized. Get more than one for your room and soak in the good vibes the lamp produces. Get this Zen Meditation Lamp for a spotty lighted effect or this table lamp for a more steady reading light.
11. Pretty Nightstand
When you're living the dorm life, it's always good to get a nightstand that can also operate as another storage area in your room. As such, I highly recommend this sorbus dresser - a tall storage tower unit for the bedroom.
12. Curate A Collection Of Canvasses
Your wall would look so pretty with a collage consisting of art print canvasses. You can really personalize your room this way. Get some canvasses from a thrift shop, or else get a lunar print here or a series of forest prints here.
13. Snuggle Up This Winter
An essential for winter is a good comforter. And it doesn’t have to be boring. You can buy interesting colors you will be obsessed with. There are purple patterned comforters and floral comforters among the many others you can choose from.
“This is a very nice bed in a bag. It comes with whatever you need to have your bed looking nice. Overall, I like this set and recommend it." – Amazon comforter.
“Love this, a little gauzy feeling and not too light, not too heavy.” – Urban Outfitters floral comforter.
14. Fab Footrests
If your bed is particularly high, it would be the height of luxury to have a comfortable footrest for when you’re sitting on your bed. As a bonus, you can use some footrest stools for storage.
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15. Marquee Alphabet Letters
Marquee alphabet letters are all the rage. Get one with your initial to really spruce up your room.
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16. Coffee Break
You simply need coffee to make it through the late-night cramming and essay-writing college demands. In the long run, a coffeemaker will save you lots of money on expensive on-campus coffees. You can also have friends over, making it a great investment.
Great one-person coffee pot! Better flavor than my old, big coffee pot.”
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17. A Plethora of Posters
If canvasses aren’t your style, you might be tempted to decorate your walls with a gallery of posters instead. You can seriously change your room's whole look and feel if you invest in a few simple bunches of paper.
You can get anything from Soviet propaganda posters to Art Nouveau gems. I recommend this Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon poster if you're into music.
"Great poster, cheap and even bigger than I expected."
18. Buy Mini Wooden Baskets
You'll always have little trinkets and items lying around that can look pretty messy after a while. So why not decorate your dorm by including these cute mini straw baskets You'll have a great place to put your miscellaneous items and create some cute boho features for your dorm too!
19. Delightful Dreamcatcher
I would be amiss if I didn’t recommend the nostalgic dreamcatcher to make your dorm room feel more like home. Dreamcatchers are so lovely, and they are a nice way to decorate your room while keeping the nightmares away!
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"Beautiful, in style, light up moon dream catcher. Perfect for any room looking for a little light at night!"
21. Superb Shoe Organizer
Another affordable and efficient way to save space is to use a hanging shoe organizer. You can place it inside your door or your cupboard door. Either way, it can save you a ton of space and serve as a convenient way to organize your shoes.
Whether it be those sparkly heels you wear on a night out or the trainers you use on your jog around campus, every shoe will have its place in one of these brilliant shoe organizers.
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"This over-the-door organizer is good quality and gets the job done."
22. Marvelous Mirrors
Every college girl has got to have at least one mirror. Whether it be to check your makeup or to decide between outfits, a mirror is a must.
You can really get a whole range of shapes and sizes of mirrors. You can even get a Hello Kitty smart mirror if you so choose! You should just check what will fit into your space the best.
We personally lovvve this sun mirror. It's extremely chic and colored gold (which goes well in any room).
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“If you are thinking of buying this mirror, just do it! It's such a beautiful mirror, and it will go perfectly in any space! Totally worth the wait!”
23. Get A Comfy Rug
What room is complete without a soft, thick rug to sink your feet into? You definitely need to get a rug or carpet for the winter months. Having a rug can also help decorate your room and coordinate your color scheme.
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“I'm obsessed with the colors - it looks beautifully muted, and the tassels on the ends are so nice. I'm so obsessed."
24. Wonderful Wreaths
Wreaths don't even have to be just for Christmas – you can use them for decorating all year round! They can be really pretty to have around.
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25. Corner Display Rack
My last fantastic space saver tip is the idea of a corner display rack. Often, you have one empty corner, and this can go to storing photos and plants and other knickknacks.
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"Have more room to store things I want to look at."
26. Color-Themed Room
Have a color that you're completed obsessed with? Decorate your room with your favorite color! From your favorite colored bed sheets to your pillows, to even what you put on your wall. The ideas are endless with a colored-themed room.
College is such an exciting time of your life; you should have a great room to make it even better!
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