Thursday, August 23, 2018

A Three-Hour Dorm Room Transformation

It's not often that you get invited back to your college, given a very small budget and a camera crew and asked to design a fabulous dorm room for an incoming 2018 student. It's flattering to say the least, but challenging at best. But, heck, I LOVED my college (go Oberlin!) and spent a good deal of time when I was there transforming rooms to make the livable and cool and to fit all my crap into them, which wasn't easy.

My first year I had a roommate and kept it minimal. My second year I was given permission to move into a large janitor's closet by myself, thus losing the roommate. For this small space, I built a loft bed and made a mattress (a bad one, I might add) out of straw and an old duvet cover. My last two years? I moved off campus and went all out on my rooms, which were in funky old houses.

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