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How to Decorate Your Dorm

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By angellove24
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Decorate Your Dorm
Decorate Your Dorm

You want to give your plain boring looking dorm room some style. Here are cheap ways that you can customize your dorm room.

Difficulty: Easy
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  1. Step 1

    First pick the colors that you want. It would suggest picking two or three colors. Search the web and check out stores like Ikea, target, jcpenney, and walmart to find things that match the color pattern that you want your dorm room to have.

  2. Step 2

    Next decorate your walls. Buy wall pops these are like wallpaper but it won't mess up walls. You can buy these on Amazon for around $10.00 for a set. You can get circles or squares or both to make your dorm room look really retro.

  3. Step 3

    Next you will need a rug find a rug that fits one color in your color pattern. You should should try walmart to find your rug they are usually the cheapest.

  4. Step 4

    Go buy colorful tape. You can spell out anything you want to say with colorful tape and it will take up space on your wall. You can also cut out pictures of you and your friends or use fashion magazine pics and spell them into words.

  5. Step 5

    Buy colorful lamps, buy a chair that matches your color pattern. If you eat in your room buy a small microwave and a toaster that fits your color scheme you can find these items on Amazon. Have fun a plain room is a boring room you can be creative with a cool room and not spend a lot of money if you follow these tips.

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fcornelius said

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on 9/14/2009 My daughter is a freshman in college, i will forward this to her and her friends. Great tips.

vintage said

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on 9/14/2009 good tips

ccard123 said

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on 8/20/2009 Hey, great dorm decorating tips! Thanks for posting. 5* and recommended.

fitzcents said

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on 8/18/2009 I need to do this in my son's room right now! He loves going to local colleges and meeting the students and professors. 5*

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on 8/17/2009 Now if I could only get my son to keep it clean.
Thanks for the post, friend.

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