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• home decor tips, Dorm decor gets a stylish makeover

  
  17 October 2009
  
  

  home decor tips, Dorm decor gets a stylish makeover: Myriam Poirier sits in her fashionable dorm living room at Oglethorpe University. It's not that difficult to turn a boring dorm room into a stylish living area.

  

  If you are allowed to paint the walls in your school's dorm, don't paint them with school colors, Flynn says. It's cliche.

  

  Using a table with a center pole can turn an ordinary desktop into a four-seat dinner table, creative space, game table or study area. The key is to fill the small space with versatile pieces of furniture.

  

  Interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn decorated Amani Nowell's bedroom to look like a studio apartment.

  

  This G.S.U. dorm room was decorated with items from The Dollar Store, proving stylish decor doesn't have to be expensive.

  

  Sahara McGraw's Oglethorpe University dorm room was redesigned after she won a $500 shopping spree from a radio contest.

  

  Some dorm rooms benefit from interesting architectural details, such as the 'Tower Rooms' at Agnes Scott, which were once voted the best in the nation.

   

  (ajchomefinder home decor news)