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though the all yellow would most certainly make me crazy after a while (however, i'm 36 and far removed from my more easy-going re: decor college self), my first reaction was, "Fun!"

I have to say, there's no way I could've done this in my dorm room in college (size restrictions, rules about removing and adding furniture and painting...)

Oops, sorry, I broke the site.

though I'm sort of surprised that their being women needs to be emphasized that much. (however, I'm 41 and far removed from my non-feminist easy-going re: pc-ness self). Love the reddish room on their site.

I and a friend went into Restoration Hardware this weekend for about 15 minutes. When we came out we were surprised because the outside environment had taken on this crazy yellow tone, like an environment would when you've been wearing blue/purple-tinted sunglasses and suddenly take them off. I wonder what the outside world looks like when you've been hanging out in an all-yellow dorm room all night?

Hell, how do you even GET DRESSED in the mornings without thinking everything makes you look a little Heppy-B?

Great post couldn't agree more. I also like the poster's name...sounds hotttt.

DO NOT WANT.

I mean, so yellow! That's the "why" of my above prematurely posted comment.

That yellow could put me off of eggs for life.

It looks like a peep.

yuck.

I love the little ladder leading up to the window seat. If I were still a student, I would definitely feel inspired and inclined to climb up there and hunker down with my homework reading.

The yellow is pretty extreme, but it definitely looks better than most of the dorms rooms I've ever seen :)

That color would send me screaming into the streets. Hate the scalloped cornice box as well. OK at best.

Fun colour.
Not here though. Jaundice anyone?
Pick a different, equally strong if you like, skin flattering colour.

What is with that scalloped valance? Not sexy.

It's cute, but how did they get around the rules about painting and such? We weren't allowed to do anything like that in the dorms!

the yellow is a bit overwhelming for sure.
but the gray and brown rooms are much more interesting and live-able.

My love for the window seat is palpable. I want to travel back in time and put one in my dorm room.

Yellow is the marmite of the color world - but other than that issue, I like the execution - the lines and simplicity.

NO.

That yellow room is making me feel crazy... and not crazy in a fun wacky sort of way, but more in a take my meds kinda way.

Maybe I would have been more successful in college the first time if I'd had a room like that. Definitely energetic, which may have been a great prescription for my procrastination. Maybe that's the point. The purpose of the room is to study. I could hear baroque music playing there.

Definitely need to check out their blog.

Barabara Thimm-- I think the emphasis in gender here is because Nervous in the Service is a Danish WOMEN's collective, so it makes sense to me. . . .

If these aren't exclusively a project of the collective and are actual dorm rooms, I think it would be great fun for the members to rotate through the colors. Would certainly keep the mind in high gear! (You could take your immediately needed books, toothbrush, jammies, etc., with you for a few days. . . .

Meanwhile, I'd personally love to have the yellow room for a while. Great fun!

And since this is a specific project, I don't take it all that seriously as permanent living arrangements!

Too much, and too hard on the eyes. I could not spend more than a few moments in there.

Pretty cool. If there's one place to experiment with such an usual colour/monochromatic scheme it would be the small, temporary living quarters of a dorm room. Would I like this in my own house? Probably not. But I do enjoy the playfulness of the decor here.

This reminds me of a woman I used to work with 20 years ago. She'd wear a turquoise dress with a turquoise belt and shoes, turquoise earrings, and a turquoise handbag. When I wore a muted pumpkin-colored jumper over a muted teal turtleneck (which had been picked out for me by a sophisticated French saleswoman because it echoed one of the colors in the flowers on the velvet yoke on the dress in a way that I would never have tuned into myself at that time), this woman loudly informed me that my turtleneck didn't "go" with my dress. She (like the designers of this room) mistook "matching" for "coordinating." People like this think they celebrate and enjoy color ... they don't. They're TERRIFIED they're going to make a mistake. (And by the way, the "window seat" under the scalloped valance looks like a baby-changing table. In fact, the whole room looks like one of those baby rooms that some people put together before they know the sex of their baby.)

What is with all the negative? Soooo what if it is yellow? A lot of us can't handle too much of any one color or too much of no color (white). Regardless, it looks better than my 1970s cinder block room with vinyl floors and built in dresser/closets across from a built in double desk with shelf that were all in the grossest dark wood-like (not wood looking at all) laminate I have seen to date. You had your choice of two small walls on either side of the "divider" as dresser/closet to stick your cot under a nasty flourescent light that matched the one built into the desk shelf. Yellow is a HUGE improvement. I'd have killed for it in college. (Did I mentions the vinyl-lined small, orange and gold stripe"institution" looking curtains?)

My eyes!

All kidding aside, and aside from the color choice, nicely done.

Yellow is so elementary.

Nonononono... yellow is so primary.





Judging from the collective's Web site -- which is, alas, designed to not be fully readable on a laptop screen -- doing single-color rooms is their current schtick. They show a department-store dressing-room done in exactly the same yellow.

I like it - I'm not a big fan of yellow but if I was a college kid presented with this room I'd be so happy

I'm with others who are wondering how in the world this "dorm interior decorating" company is staying in business? Most university dorms will barely let you put up posters anymore, let alone paint, change the furniture, and hang window treatments. Additionally, what college student has the money to bring in a professional, even if they're allowed to get creative? I've been out of school 2 years and have a real job, and I still can barely justify my DIY habit.

Though I do notice a few conspicuous IKEA pieces, so there's that.

As for the yellow, I'm meh about it, but it's not my room. I'm not getting the impression here that this group's motto is All Rooms Yellow, All The Time or anything like that.

justturningofftheitalics

well, I tried.

I'm blinded!

I wish Columbia would let you paint the dorms. And bring in your own furniture. And have candles. And put things on the wall.

I can barely remember my college years, let alone whatever I might have learned... no changes were allowed to the dorm rooms, but most of our time was spent in the design studio anyway. But the room, perky thing that it is, looks more like what I'd expect my daughter to want if she were going to Miss Porter's, not college. My son would like it, but only in black.