How to Make a Dorm Feel Like Home

Moving away to college and living in a dorm can be an exciting but scary time. To help ease any apprehension, it's best to make your dorm room feel like home. Adding personal touches to a dorm room can make it seem as if you haven't moved very far from home. Here's some things you can do to make your dorm room feel like home.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Bring your favorite comforter or bedspread from home. If the bed doesn't have a mattress, get one that feels as close to your mattress at home as possible.

2. Display pictures of your family and friends around the dorm room to make it feel like home. A great idea for a small dorm room is a collage frame which allows you to place several pictures inside one frame.

3. Put up posters of your favorite rock bands or movie stars. Making the space reflect you is the best way to make your dorm room feel like home.

4. Hang curtains just like the ones you have hanging in your room back home, if your dorm room has a window. If you can't find ones that match, bring the curtains from home to use.

5. Decorate the room with personalized items that reflect you and your personality. If, for instance, you collect certain knick-knacks, bring some from home to place around your dorm room to make it feel like home.

6. Buy an old sofa, a small refrigerator and a TV to put in your dorm room. Having a sofa to relax on, a TV to watch and some snacks in the refrigerator will go a long way toward making your dorm room feel like home.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't let someone else—-a relative or friend, for instance—-decorate your dorm room for you. Add your own personal touch to make the room feel like home.
• Check with your school about what items it allows in your dorm room. Most, for example, don't allow a hot plate or toaster oven in the room.