<p>I wondered about the suction cups too. But i love how is bed is exactly like a sofa with the roll pillows on either end and the cushions against the wall.</p>
<p>@Ohio… Yes, I adore it too and might copy it. But then all those pillows on the bed make smoothing the duvet more difficult for the D. I also wonder how he vacuums the room. It would seem to me that the vacuum cleaner will keep snagging on those rugs overlaying each other.</p>
<p>I’d just do my own research on design and do it myself to save money. College is exspensive enough. No need for such luxuries as professionalkly decorated rooms.</p>
<p>What parts of the decorator’s work would remain once the dorm changes tenants?</p>
<p>Krlilies–super glue :D.</p>
<p>I would never spend that kind of money on a dorm room–first. you are only going to live in the room for 10 months, then what? Second, what a waste of money, it’s a freaking DORM ROOM.</p>
<p>Another thing, the girl in the OP’s post, she has so many “decorator items” on her desk, where is she going to study?</p>
<p>Professional decorators for dorm rooms? And you wonder why many kids today feel a sense of entitlement.</p>
<p>And the only input I had with my S’s first dorm room was about a poster he put above his bed. It was titled,“As I Lay Dying” for a band, I believe. Yes, it is the title of a poem by Faulkner but it just felt wrong where it was displayed. He moved it.</p>
<p>Wallpaper, really? Students aren’t allowed to paint, tack, nail or otherwise mark the walls let alone wallpaper them. What a crock.</p>
<p>The article said it was a removable wallpaper. Like this perhaps: [Removable</a> Wallpapers by Style: Modern Renters Solutions | Apartment Therapy](<a href=“http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/roundup-modern-removable-wallpaper-167208]Removable”>http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/roundup-modern-removable-wallpaper-167208)</p>
<p>D1 told me that some fraternity guys put in new wooden floor, sofa, very large flat screen TV, video…a man cave. But they get to keep the same room for 3 years, so it’s worth their while.</p>
<p>I am surprised given they can’t nail things etc…
which is why 3M hooks are so valuable!
Paint, wall paper, chandeliers?</p>
<p>When my kids have J-O-B-S and their own homes then they are welcome to decorate however they choose on their dime :D</p>
<p>Dear Financial Aid Office,</p>
<p>I am appealing my financial aid award because you did not give me enough money. It might look like my parents have a lot of money, but I have higher expenses than the average student. I am used to a certain type of environment. It costs a lot to make my dorm room a home, and that should be a factor in my aid. After all, those poor kids who get a lot of grant money don’t have to worry about spending money for a professional decorator; they aren’t use to living in a certain manner. I, on the other hand, cannot possibly live in a dorm room that is not properly retrofitted to my exacting specifications.</p>
<p>Oh, and don’t forget the extra money I need for a cleaning service. You don’t expect me to live in filth, do you? And you most certainly do not expect me to clean my own room.</p>
<p>Yours truly,
Spoiled Rotten</p>
<p>What’s important is that your son or daughter feels comfortable in their living enviroment. If their home environment was put together by the help of decorators, then so be it that their dorm rooms would be as well. They probably have personal shoppers that help select their clothing as well. These kids are used to a certain lifestyle and I bet once out of college their parents will continue to keep them in the style that their accustom too. I personally enjoyed working with my son to help him have the room he wanted. It was really important to him that it felt more like home than a dorm as he was leaving the West Coast for the East Coast. Not having the luxury of going home on the weekends - (like most of his classmates do), made it even more important that he had an environment that he felt good spending so much time in. His room is probably a little over the top, but he enjoys it and his residents that come to talk over any concerns have a comfortable place and environment to sit other than a bed or hard wooden desk chair. These expenditures weren’t the cheapest or the most expensive, but are items of resonable quality that he can and will continue to use after college. To me it was an investment in him as well as giving the kids that seek refuge from some of the issues and problems they face a warm enviroment as well to try and sort things out.</p>
<p>Cali, if it’s that comfortable for everybody to come to sort out their problems and as a refuge in time of need, when will he have time to study?</p>
<p>There is something to be said for learning how to cope when things aren’t as perfect as we would like them to be.</p>
<p>I should have hired a designer for my daughter’s dorm room. She hung her Lord of the Rings poster right next to her Star Trek poster. I just about died!</p>
<p>GA2012Mom…We have put nails in walls and then just repaired them. No problem. Haven’t lost a room deposit yet! :)</p>
<p>Thank you Kelsmom for the oh so appropriate letter.
Cali, where is your son going to school that most kids go home on weekends?</p>
<p>“Oh, and don’t forget the extra money I need for a cleaning service. You don’t expect me to live in filth, do you? And you most certainly do not expect me to clean my own room.”</p>
<p>Apparently some parents do not feel it’s important to teach their kids how to care for themselves or their homes. It’s all left for “the help”. It seems like something out of a movie but I guess it really happens. I’m sure some of them are customers of these dorm decorators. Ugh.</p>
<p>I just wish my D would get a desk lamp that actually works. :o</p>