Moving into a dorm/halls as a fresher is pretty daunting. Everything smells weird, the carpet is probably a dubious shade of brown, and your room mate may or may not be a psychopath, it’s too early to tell. So generally the first instinct is to either spend as little time as possible in your room, or run to the nearest Ikea and spend way too much money on stuff you don’t need that doesn’t even look that good. Unfortunately this produces heaps of waste every year, and is a real shame when decorations are really easy, cheap and quite enjoyable to make yourself. If you’re only ever going to do one DIY project in your life, make it a decoration.
Watch this space every day this week for specific dorm DIYs, but in the meantime here are some general, easy, cheap tips on how to change your dorm from looking like a scene out of ‘shawshank redemption’ into something that actually feels a little more like home:
The Conscious Student 