How to Make More Room in Your Dorm Room
No matter how big a university campus is, it is fairly safe to say that its dorm rooms will be small. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing, however, because just by using the following tips, college students can learn to maximize their living spaces.
The first piece of advice any college graduate and former dorm dweller will give you is to bring your own storage. If you bring stuff to college, you must also bring things to contain the stuff. This could be an extra free-standing bookshelf, a stack of plastic drawers, or an under-bed storage unit. It’s also important to remember that every piece of furniture you bring into the room can be used for more than one thing. For example, a bookshelf can hold books, but it can also be a room divider.
After you’re all moved into your dorm, you must determine where all of your things will go. These will be permanent homes for your belongings. It’s important to set a home for your items so that everything can quickly be put away and your room will always look neat. This will only work if you actually put your things away, though. So in order to always have a spacious-feeling room, take the extra few seconds it takes to put something where it belongs once you’re finished with it.
One more action you can take to make your room more spacious is to be mindful of the dcor you bring in. There are certain steps you can take to make sure the decorations and colors you put into the space work towards opening it up and not closing it in. For example, light colors in the same family will help your eyes flow through the room, while bright or dark colors of different shades will make you focus on several different things. Also, adding light to the corners will open it up as well.
Finally, make your bed. It’s that simple. Just by making your bed each morning, you will instantly make the room feel a little more like a hotel suite than a dorm. A made bed will be more inviting for your friends to hang out and for you to study on. It will also be more satisfying to crawl into each night. Not only this, but the alternative of an unmade bed will make your room seem messy and therefore smaller.
The key for these tips to work for you is to actually work at them. For most people, it’s not second nature to be neat, especially not in our bedrooms, but with a little practice, it will be. The reward of always having a clean and spacious room to study or hang out in will help you to see that a little hard work is more than worth it!