Setting up your home-away-from-home may be your first effort at decorating. If you’re determined not to end up with lots of cast-off items from the basement or garage, you’ll love the great ideas here. We'll help you find great dorm decor items to get your dorm room decorated to feel like home- or better!
To get ready for any project that you might want to do to decorate your dorm room, you'll want to start with the right tools. Take a look at the Dorm Survival Kit from Home Improvement expert Barbara K! You'll be ready for anything!
A good starting point for decorating would be to choose a dorm room decorating theme. You might be heading to a college in the northeast, even though you dream “Hawaii.” Or you may be leaving a perfectly decorated traditional home and long for a “wild” theme. This is your chance to choose exactly what you want. Go for it!
You might not be inclined toward the “hot pink” chosen by Reese Witherspoon for her Harvard Law School dorm room in the movie "Legally Blond" or ”Legally Blond 2”, but choosing a favorite color can really help you focus. Bright colors ARE hot, but lime, orange, blue, and purple will work, too.
Choose your color scheme or dorm room decorating theme and then browse through the options shown here. Check out the “hot colors” for dorm rooms any year. Look around at the great organizing items to keep your dorm room in tip-top shape.
Bright colors are everywhere! There’s nothing subtle in decorating when you move into a dorm room.
A great piece for any room is a soft pillow to lounge on.
Comfy seating is a must—for relaxing or studying. You might like a soft bean bag chair.
Once you’ve selected your chair, don’t forget an ottoman to prop your feet up on.
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