It’s back-to-school season – and that means decorating your dorm room within an inch of its life! This is a special time to forget that dorm rooms are inherently cramped, temporary spaces that you’ll need to move back out of in less than a year. Here are six cute dorm décor ideas from someone who has obviously never had to live in one!
Put a futon under your bed.
Do you somehow magically have a loft bed in your dorm with absolutely nothing under it? Then buy an entire huge-ass futon, we guess! Go ahead and roll the dice on whether you actually have a loft bed or not.
Make a coffee station!
Assuming you somehow have tons of open surfaces as if you have a real apartment, you can setup a station with your coffee maker, sugar, and other essentials to help get you going in the morning. But if you have a normal dorm with just a desk that’s teeming with your computer and all your other shit, this probably isn’t a great idea!
Hang a hammock.
How cute! You’ll love the extra lounge space, assuming you have six feet of open space and adequate weight-bearing places to mount this thing. This will go great under your loft bed but also kind of on your futon!
Hang curtains.
For an extra homey feel, mount a curtain rod and hang curtains over the window that apparently isn’t surrounded by the impenetrable cinderblock walls that make up 99% of real-world dorm rooms. Haha you don’t even have space for what is essentially a two-dimensional object!
Get a papasan chair.
Cute! Comfy! Impossibly large! This chair is great for somewhere that isn’t a dorm room.
Use a clothing rack!
Having all your clothes out on display can add some color to the room and make it easier to get dressed in the morning, while also clogging up the absolutely miniscule floor plan of a normal dorm room. This will fit perfectly in the three square feet of open space you have left!
Whether you’re flying solo or with a roommate, these adorable dorm room ideas will be absolutely useless for you. Maybe it’s time to think about moving off-campus!
