apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Finally, a place that looks like a dorm room that actually IS a dorm room. Good job. Drew U must be some cool school to let you do all of that to dorm walls.

This guy's dorm room is better that several apartments in the recent contest here...

...I think he's got a great future as an Interior Designer.

I wish I could have painted my dorm room!!

Wow. Back in the day I was in a dorm, it was Big Stuff to take the bunkbeds apart, flip the bottom one, and rearrange them as L-shaped trundles. Cinderblock walls precluded decorations except for posters held up with tacky putty. Only a tiny few brought actual furniture or rugs in from home. It's a different world! (Nicer, maybe -- although moving out was easier for us!)

The green paint is fabulous.

BTW - I love his pink pants
:-)

Followed the links....really enjoyed the slide show. He's got a better bar on a tv tray than I do in my whole house.

The fun thing about living in dorms was that you could really go for it in the small space you had and then then completely change it up the following year (if you moved every year like I did). His tie rack is pretty cool.

Elizabeth
http://emblemorstain.blogspot.com

i wonder why he chose drew u?

What a lovely article. It brings to mind a book I've always wanted to create. While in college, I also tested several design aesthetics in every room I had, which didn't please parents as there was always more things to pack/move. Anyway, my idea was to create a photobook of different dorm rooms at Middlebury and showcase how different, cozy, expressive or non-expressive students can make their abodes. Then I discovered Apt. Therapy, which pretty much does the above :o).

http://myexitrow.blogspot.com/

I loved my dorm rooms, from the tiny single that was a maid's room in the late 19th century (complete with a dormer window with a mountain view) to the mid-century room with mid-century closets and a picture window. AT should start a dorm room contest (way-small, way-cool dormitory goodness) for dorm dwellers past and present. Extra points for making pasta primavera in an electric kettle?

Not my style but totally awesome!

I live in a tiny single dorm room in a very new dorm, with cinderblock walls and hideous furniture, all with those ugly busy patterns that are supposed to not show stains (but they do). We're -very- not allowed to paint or change the furniture more than rearranging it. And depending on how strict the RA is, that room might be too full of stuff to pass the "health and safety" inspection. So while I've seen some pretty cozy dorm rooms, anything like that is utterly out of reach here, and on most campuses for that matter.

LOVE IT! I'm 36 and I want a room like that!

Gosh, undergraduates are a lot more sophisticated than they were in my day! Not a Reservoir Dogs poster in sight!

It's absolutely fantastic.

I enjoyed the article (and his dorm room) quite a lot, but I couldn't help but think that he reads like some Wes Anderson character come to life (down to the "melon" colored trousers), he almost seems too coiffed and caricatured to be real.

Hah! Doing anything even 1/8th as drastic as this to my college's dorm room would have gotten you kicked out so quickly...

Dear Maximilian,

Please be my new gay best friend. If you are not gay, please be my new best friend.

Sconces and Roman Shades,

Erin

Re: " I couldn't help but think that he reads like some Wes Anderson character come to life"

I kept seeing Antony Andrews as Lord Sebastien Flyte actually...

He has more ties than my husband! And yes, a better drinks tray than we do.

Love the layered carpets.

Nifty! I love the overhead photo.

But where does he sleep? I'm guessing that couch must pull out, although there doesn't seem to be enough room... and what happens to all those cushions?

Maybe he just never sleeps. If I had a room like this, I would want to stay awake and enjoy it too.

well I guess it's good that for 34,000 a year he get to paint his room and act like a character in a Wes Anderson character. I guess it's better than an average american dorm room but as a style and a design it's rather grandma's attic more than anything.

Absolutely love it! And a mentorship with Charlotte Moss? This kid is going places.

I like the bed concept - nj countertops by replacementcounters.com

Ya'll are upsetting me, this kid has better bar than you? You need more serious drinkers in your life ;)
Love the tie rack, sad that none of this is possible in a state-run institution with cinder block walls. I always helped my friends re-upholster their sofa backs. Hagadorn @ Michigan State uni had these great mid-c sofa/bed convertible contraptions and I'd love to re-create one someday.

Arttarte, his name is even Max(imilan)! He can definitely solve the hardest geometry equation in the world...

Uh-oh... I have Led Zeppelin's "airplane" poster in my bathroom... is that lame?

i love his style. the room is fantastic, but i can't help but think how is he able to do this? i don't know a school that would allow students to paint dorm rooms... unless mommy and daddy bought a new wing of the school. gotta love stylish rich kids.

"I couldn't help but think that he reads like some Wes Anderson character come to life (down to the "melon" colored trousers)"

That's exactly what I thought. It seems very "The Royal Tennenbaums."

Great sense of pattern and color!! Did a good job mix and matching, and he probably didn't try so hard ( ironic to many designers).

*looks at her very Ikea dorm room*
Ralph Lauren paint and layers of Persian rugs? Try bland white and a €2 swedish gem of tapestry (pink and black, stylish!)

I think it's great, in the grand tradition of Oxford college rooms where people went all out. I don't understand why people are being so mean--he's got clients, he's got a career ahead. Of course he's prepped out--he went to Choate!

I graduated from Drew in 1995 and I lived in that dorm (Hoyt 321, to be exact) my senior year. Definitely the best (and oldest dorm) on campus, with mostly single rooms. My room was the exact same layout, but did not have quite the Wes Anderson look. I did have an adorable shag rag rug, though. I bought it at Pottery Barn and thought it was the bee's knees.

As long as you painted your room back to the institutional beige when you moved out, you were allowed to paint. In my four years, though, I only knew a couple of girls who did that.

That is an amazing room but I agree with many of the comments saying that that sort of decor is pretty out of reach for the average university student. I guess he doesn't need a desk to study? I don't doubt that this would be the hangout room.

I get the Wes Anderson character vibe but he made me think of Chuck Bass (from Gossip Girl, I love it and I am not ashamed). Maybe it was just the pants though, not sure.

I wallpapered my freshman dorm room, but it didn't look anywhere near that cool.

That's very impressive!

In my college...you could do anything to a room as long as you made it look the way it did when you moved in when you moved out. If you didn't paint the walls back they would charge you an arm and a leg.

"i wonder why he chose drew u?" -- sunan

Because he could decorate!