Dorm Room Decor: Ideas for Your Bare Walls

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Wall decoration is an easy, quick way to transform your dull dorm room into a nice place. Check out these ideas:

Artwork for Mix-N-Match Style

A mix-n-match style is always effective in adding vibrancy and inspiring creativity. Buy several trendy and stylish artworks to create a colorful environment and inject personality to your room. Create a gallery-style wall with artwork pieces and photographs.

A Happy Inspiration Board

An inspiration board is a great idea, as it will serve dual functions of decorating your room and inspiring you. Make a decorative memo board with your favorite things like personal pictures, inspiring quotes, favorite magazine cutout, and something others that will make you happy and motivate you to lead life in a positive way. Looking at your favorite things will help you when you are drowning in homework and will help you get through when you are homesick.

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Posters & Murals for Fun

Using giant posters is a cheap and very easy way to decorate the walls of your dorm room. You can choose this option if your institution does not allow using painting or wallpapers. Invest in some great posters, because they will accompany you throughout your college life. Wall murals are another option in keeping the room cheerful and happy. Do you have liking for a particular sport? What is your favorite hobby? Are you crazy for a rock music or sports icon? A giant mural or small images arranged together in a mural-like style of your favorite person or sport will definitely add fun.

Spice up with Stylish Shelves

Students need shelves for keeping their books, keepsakes, or other stuffs. What if the shelves not only serve functionality but also can be used to decorate the room? Different types and styles of shelves are there that can effectively fulfill your aesthetic needs. Keep your space clutter-free and bring a chic style to your dorm room with tree-style, skateboard-style, or geometric style shelves.

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As a new student, decorating a dorm room can be overwhelming to you. However, these ideas may help you making your room the best one on the hall. Most colleges have rules and regulations about what can be put on the walls and what not. So, do not forget reviewing the rules of your school before spending money on anything.

Do you have any cool dorm room wall decoration ideas? Share with us!

Organization is big this time of year and in many ways organization can serve beauty and function. Books are beautiful in every way. Reading a good book can be a relaxing and mind-opening experience. If you have a big book collection though, storing them can be a problem. Most bookworms like to display them in bookcases and libraries. Also, it is a good way to make books available to your kids so they learn to read and love them from an early age. Here are a few ideas on how to arrange your books in a creative way.

Creative Bookshelf Storage Ideas

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Use space-saving bookcases

If you have a small home, making the most of the available space is crucial. Great ways to display books, having them on hand and at the same time save space, are furniture pieces with integrated bookcases. Beds, tables, armchairs and couches with shelves for keeping your books are just a few ideas.

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Also, think about vertical storage as in one book over another and not side by side. This way you can save space, too.Another space saver is to store books facing-forward, even behind doors. This idea is great for children’s rooms. To make the shelves you can even re-purpose wooden spice racks.

Display them in a unique bookcase

Having a completely unexpected bookcase will turn your book collection to a centerpiece in your home. You can choose from a great variety of book case shapes, like asymmetric and modern ones, tree shaped or classic ones.

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Use items that you have no longer use for, like crates that you can paint, an old ladder or even an empty guitar case. This way you are not only environment-friendly, but you save yourself money as well.

Make use of the background

To revamp your old bookcase, it is always a good idea to paint or apply wallpaper to the back of it. That can give the bookcase depth or pop, which will add to the overall character of your home. Painting a tree and placing shelves so they look like standing on the painted branches can make a wonderful creative book display for any room, but especially so in a kid’s room.

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Displaying books can inspire love and apreciation for them. In whatever way you choose to store them, don’t forget the most important thing about books: enjoying the journey they take us on, by reading them! What Creative Bookshelf Storage Ideas do you use in your home?

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