Posts Tagged “dorm room”

A Glimpse of Room 11…

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Stephanie

Every semester, all of the girls that live in our house (I’m an Alpha Phi) have the chance to move rooms and live with different people. My sophomore year I moved rooms, and even though it was nice to have a change of scenery…it was a pretty big hassle. So last year and this year…I never moved. At semester we were starting to get tired of our room set up though, so we decided to go ahead and try to change up the room a bit, and get creative. It took a few days to get everything moved to the place where we wanted it, but in the end, it was a great change for all of us. You can check out what it used to look like if you’re interested….but here is what we came up with!

We wanted to have an entire area devoted to just hanging out – so we moved our futon into the corner, made a little window seat with our cubes, and got rid of the coffee table.

My absolute favorite parts of the room are the little clusters of decorating that we have. Since we all have such different style, it was hard to make the room look unified and still reflect us…but I think we found the absolute perfect balance. Here we have some of my crafts, paired with my roommate Katie’s painting of Prince…which is absolutely amazing. I also love that Prince watches over our futon day after day….

I also made some yarn wrapped letters for each of us (one for the first letter of each of our names)…and found this idea for displaying them on Pinterest. I am so happy with how it turned out!

We had another little area that needed some sprucing up…so we pulled together some crafts I made, a cute lamp of Katie’s, and some of Brooke and Lauren’s Alpha Phi frames. Even though I’m not the biggest fan of pink…I still love this corner.

The hardest part for us while moving around our room was finding a good place for our desks. We ended up with two beside each other (Lauren and I), Brooke on the other side of the room, and Katie in the corner by Brooke. Here is the area around Lauren and my desks…it gets kind of busy sometimes – but we still love it!

And here is the view of the side of our room with the futon, our desks, and everything. All this talking about decorating just makes me want to decorate it all over again….or maybe I’ll wait until I get my own house.

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THIS is college.

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Stephanie

I’ve been meaning to devote a post or two to my room’s set up/decor for awhile…but I thought that before I showed my room in its prime I should show it in the normal state. It really hasn’t been clean since Recruitment, but for that week and a half it was really, REALLY clean. Of course, it wasn’t naturally clean…simply because we have so much stuff and not enough room for all of it. To deal with this situation, we created a secret hiding space for all of our stuff…where we would hide everything that didn’t have a home during each day of Recruitment so no one saw it. This included some food, my roommate Katie’s clothes, some shoes, and other random things that were just laying around…and the place where we would hide it all was our bath tub. Think about it, if you put things in the bath tub then you can close the curtain, and just like magic…everything is hidden.

Our bath tub...the catch-all.

I know…it’s kind of gross. But it was clean – and every day we would just empty it before we needed to use the shower….and then fill it again after.

If we could have our room look nice, clean, and orderly all day every day…I would be all for it. But let’s be serious… we are in college and we are not neat people…at all. So we just do what we can to make sure that we aren’t living in filth, and put most of our stuff in piles. This way, it is at least a comfortable space…right?

So…that is our room in its normal state. Check back next week for our room in its prime…where you can actually notice our style and all of the awesome decorative things we made. I promise – it is a REALLY awesome room…and I’m only slightly biased.

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Back to School…for the final time.

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Stephanie

Tonight, I stopped by Target to check out their clearance shoe selection (I was in search of some super cheap summery shoes) and to look for the shams that my sister wants for her new apartment with her husband (it feels weird calling John her husband, they’ve only been married for a week and a half). While I wandered around looking for things to buy, I noticed quite a few mothers shopping with their kids who are getting ready to go to college. Now don’t think that I’m a creep since I know that, but one pair was walking with a mini fridge in their cart (the son was wearing a Ball State t-shirt) and another pair was looking at the bedding and talking about what could sit beside the daughter’s bed. Both pairs just screamed, “NEW COLLEGE STUDENT” to me, an old pro at this whole going to college situation.

Oh, the memories - my freshman dorm room.

Normally, this would get me all excited because I love back-to-school shopping, and I really can’t wait to go back to Butler…but this time, I don’t feel nearly as excited. Instead, I’m kind of sad. I’ve been a real person all summer long…and it’s not that great. College kid life is the best…and I’m totally fine with being a college kid forever…or at least for longer than only one more year. Maybe I will be able to talk my Mom into taking me to Wal-Mart and Target just like we always used to when I was a kid, to get everything that I might need for school…even though that is only pens, pencils, and printer ink. I think just seeing all of the new, colorful stuff makes me feel young, and like I’m not about to enter the real world. So Mom – just humor me and take me to the store, and let’s pretend that we have entire list of stuff to get…like Elmer’s Glue and Crayola Crayons. It will be fun – I promise.