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nice, actually. much more interesting than some of the entries in AT's small space contest.

I love the chair and ottoman. Though that green is a bit bright for me. Nice work.

I always loved decorating and re-decorating my dorm! (Usually each year we went through several furniture arrangements) It was always so fun to see what we could do with extremely limited budgets and standard issue ugly furniture, and some dumpster diving. I did end up getting some neat artwork from the visual art students!

My dorm never looked that put together, however!

That's really swank for a dorm room! I agree about the green being too much. I would have chosen a bright-but-not-that-bright contrasting color for that wall to make the chair pop, instead of going for a match. I'm curious about how well the contact paper would hold up in the bathroom -- it seems like it might start to bubble and come up next to the sink.

The "before" images show two beds. What happened to the roommate part of the situation? Maybe this person lucked out and was alone in a double.

Given that dorm rooms are typically fully furnished, $300 seems steep, if it's mostly to replace the furniture that came with the room. It's definitely cool for a dorm room, but I think most students stick to bedding and posters as their decor touches, and think that $300 is a lot to spend.

Also, I'm surprised that "they" [RAs and/or maintenance] "didn't mind at all" that the wall was painted, no matter how good they thought it looked. From my experience, those people would poop a brick and make the student pay a fee for damaging the room. Maybe, again, this person's lucky.

The goal of a "sophisticated studio" was definitely met!

Geez - some folks just don't get it...

...matching the green color on the wall to the green vinyl vintage chair and using the same paint to create the circles on the art canvases is exactly what makes this space work. If she had used a different shade of green, the space wouldn't look anything near as cohesive - and mixing greens is incredibly difficult to get right.
(Just look at the str8 guy in the office who wears green pants with a green shirt - It never works)

Tho frankly, I don't mind the original pink vanity: Pink Green = Palm Beach.

i never would have been allowed to make changes like this in my dorm room! we weren't even allowed to move furniture out that we didn't want to use. great space!

Where are the old dressers and the other bed?

$300 is wayyyy more than I had to spend on dorm decoration. It's nicely done, though.

Yeah, still boycotting HGTV after the homophobic debacle that was the end of "Design Star".

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Nice, but no way could I have painted my dorm room (or my sorority rooms) or had a budget of $300.

Modfan -

What on earth are you talking about?
HGTV has more openly gay hosts than even Bravo!

Extremely GREAT energy!!!!!

When I lived in the dorms we couldn't move out the furniture and move in different furniture...or paint the walls...or do anything at all to it! What school is this at?

The dorm I was in many, many years ago allowed painting as long as you painted it back. The walls were so bad though, they needed more than just a paint job.

I was fortunate to go to a school that was old-money enough that we had decent furnitures in the very old buildings. All my dorm rooms also had great bones (mouldings, dark-stained wooden floors, great layouts) and panoramic windows that look out to fall colors in autumn, falling snow in winter, and idyllic flowering trees in spring. I didn't really do anything besides put up movie posters and put my books in fancy book shelves (some rooms even had those shelves built in). I didn't have cinder-block walls or ugly carpeting to deal with, so the rooms were good as they were. Every end of the year when other students throw their furniture away, I was able to find a lot of really good antiques (some, I had to say, were pilfered from the Saarinen-designed building on campus; I returned the tulip chairs I found). I miss college sometimes...

I LOVE that green.