In college your dorm room, like your wardrobe, reflects your personality and style. Her Campus is here to get your year started right by helping you create a rocking dorm room that will impress your friends! As a junior looking to revamp my own dorm room, while living on a college student’s budget, I looked to Pinterest for cheap and easy crafts. I found four super cute ideas that are functional and fashionable!
Pictacular Fabric
Pictures are perfect for making your room feel like home. You can showcase your favorite memories on a decorative, fabric-covered wall hanging for a unique look. For this project you will need fabric, ribbon, gemstones, a corkboard and hot glue. Cover your cork board with fabric and secure it on the back with your hot glue. Lay the ribbon in a diamond pattern. Leave an extra half-inch overhang to glue it to the back of the board. Also add a dot of glue under the overlap of the ribbons for extra support. Then just glue down your gemstones and add pictures for the finished product!
Splash of Color
This next craft can give your dorm room that extra splash of color it needs and hold all of your bracelets. Get a bottle of acrylic paint in two colors that you want to bring out from your bedspread. Next find two different sized glass bottles that bracelets will fit over. Add a little water to the paint and put it in the two bottles. Shake it around until the entire inside of the bottle is covered; then let it sit to dry. Once dry you will have a stylish bracelet holder that accents your bedspread. This quick project can be displayed on your dresser, a bedside table or desk.
Glitter and Glam
What girl doesn’t like a little glitter? Spruce up your sink by adding a glamorous mason jar toothbrush holder. Apply modge podge to your mason jar and just add glitter! For extreme shine dip the modge podge covered jar in the glitter. You can also get creative and tape off designs. I went with a striped design by tapping off where I wanted my stripes and applying the white glitter to the rest of the jar. After it dried I removed the tape and added hot pink glitter for a little extra sparkle. You can also make it a matching set by making a second jar and adding a lid with a hole in the center for a soap dispenser!
Framed
Dorm living inevitably means utilizing all possible space, including wall space. It is great for showing off one of a girl’s best accessories, her necklaces! All you have to do is screw hooks into the top of a frame to hang your necklaces from. You can choose a frame that is bright and bold to make your wall pop, great for holding small, simple necklaces. Or go with a subtle wood frame and let your bright and chunky necklaces make the statement. For even more storage put a few hooks on the sides of the frame to hang earrings. Now your jewelry can accessorize you and your room!
Sources:
Splash of Color;http://www.lachicadelacasadecaramelo.com/2013/04/jarrones-con-botellas-pintadas.html
http://easyhomestead.blogspot.com/2013/05/bottle-jewelry-organizing.html
Glitter and Glam; http://awesomecraftpins.com/2013/02/05/glittered-bottles-tape-off-where-you-want-glitter-add-mod-podge-glitter-peel-off-tape-and-let-dry/
Framed;http://tenthavenuesouth.blogspot.com/2012/01/jewelry-organization.html