We all know that a tiny dorm room can be difficult to decorate, and that Pinterest is your best friend when trying to come up with ideas to make your box feel like home. You can start off with an idea and create a masterpiece of your room, or at least try to.
For the first couple weeks of school, your room looks like it's straight out of a magazine. Then the stress of school takes over and your room, well, falls apart. Now it’s a new year and a new semester, and because you still don’t want to do your homework, it’s a great time to redecorate!
1. Hit up Pinterest again.
Start fresh with a new board, new pins, and new ideas. After all, you’ve changed since college started a few months ago. You’ve grown older and more mature — your room needs to reflect that.
2. Crafting.
Every sorority girl’s favorite thing. You’re going to need practice for when you get a little in the fall or for when you have to make a cooler for that frat guy who invited you to formal. Break out your paints and start bringing those Pinterest dreams to life.
3. Cry, because yours crafts look nothing like Pinterest.
Okay, so maybe you aren’t that good at crafting and you probably should have paid your super-artsy friend to make these crafts, but you made them and you don’t have time to make more. They’re going up on the wall in place of the crafts you tried to make before school started. At least your new ones look better than those?
4. Admire your work.
Your roommate noticed the improvements you made immediately and told you how lovely they were. Your heart was warmed by her kind words. Of course, you don’t know if that’s how she really feels or if that’s what she is saying because she knows how much time you spent on them. Regardless, those tears are gone and have been replaced with a feeling of accomplishment and pride.
5. Go shopping to finish up the room.
Those crafts are not cutting it, so time to break out the wallet and go shopping. Not only will your room look perfect as its filled with both gorgeous crafts and a few pieces you picked up, but you’ll get a quality stress relief while shopping.
6. Vow to keep your fabulous room clean.
Now that your room is top notch, you have to keep it cleaner than you did last semester. No piles of clothes, no crumbs from breakfast, no trash over a few days old. This room has to look as good as it possibly can.
7. Watch as everything falls apart.
The clothes you said would never live in piles on the floor again... are in piles on the floor. The chalkboard hasn’t been updated in over a month. The crafts you once thought were great turned out to be disasters again. No one can see how awesome your room is under the junk, so you keep people out. To be honest, you keep yourself out, because you aren’t productive there and it just makes you sad to look at.
There’s always the apartment that you move into next year, right?
