When you move into a dorm, there are a lot of rules about what you can and can't do, but bedding is one area where you have free reign. You can dress your standard-issue bed with prints, patterns, neutrals...whatever you want. For inspiration, we've rounded up some good examples of stylin' twin beds...
FIRST ROW
• 1 Marie arranged her bed on an angle and decorated it with a sunny yellow print.
• 2 Garrett keeps his bed clean and simple, with a few bedside accessories.
• 3 A light installation transforms this basic bed in North London.
• 4 A bungalow bedroom from Country Living uses purple as an accent color.
• 5 A bed in Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home is decked out in color.
SECOND ROW
• 6 Elizabeth and Ben's patchwork bed looks comfy and cozy.
• 7 Beds at le 33 in Paris use a contrasting neutral color scheme.
• 8 An all-white bedroom from Casa Angelina in Italy looks spare and chic.
• 9 A minimal dorm room forgoes the bed frame in favor of a low-slung look.
• 10 A storage bed at 1237 West at DePaul University gets a boost of color.
Photos: Marie, Garrett, Kristin Hohenadel, Lucas Allen / Country Living, Janel Laban, Sarah Coffey, le 33, Casa Angelina, irksomecushion, 1237 West
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i'll show this to my husband, he keeps teasing me about seperate beds, he's an ass.
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that second to last one is so good. i wish i'd read apartment therapy my freshman year of college.
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nice ideas :) although I must say :twin beds are for dorms and children's rooms ONLY lol. I once stayed at a friend's house who had two twin beds in the guest room so I couldnt even sleep in the same bed as my fiance....and my fiance is a big guy, he almost rolled off twice....it was kinda funny...
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I live right by 1237 West!
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"twin beds are for dorms and children's rooms ONLY"
Perhaps for you, but I've been single so long now that I don't care to share a bed (I never could get any sleep w/ my ex-husband, but I digress...)
- so if it's twin beds while I'm staying in a guestroom, at a hotel, a rented vacation house or aboard ship, that's fine by me!
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bepsf maybe that explains why you can come off as cranky to some ;)
I kid, I kid...its all love :)
people will decorate as they choose...my guestroom has a queen in it...twin beds are so suffocating. cant roll, cant stretch, cant move. Although I do like the "harder for people to have sex in my guest bed" aspect...
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I think Garrett's is actually a double :) but the simplicity would probably work fine on a twin.
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abc123 -- I must agree for the most part that twins are for dorm rooms and kids' rooms - though I find it as an exception when someone has a small guest room. Two twins placed in a room take up much more space than a double - and still more than a queen.
Last time I slept on a twin was in college - don't plan to ever ever again unless I have to stay over at my parents in which all they have is a tiny room with a daybed in it.
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i really miss my twin bed, now that i have a full... except when i have company, a twin bed makes me feel safer than a large full. but i'm an adult now, so i shouldn't be sleeping in a kids bed. lol
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