Between your school’s decor rules and your decorating budget, making your dorm room feel like home can be challenging. Fortunately, thanks to these 3 innovative and budget-friendly hacks, it’s easier than ever to incorporate your personal style into your dorm room without breaking the bank or failing your room’s safety inspection!
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Dorm Room Upgrade Hack 1: Use A Tennis Ball As An Organizer
Create a wall organizer that doubles as a fun conversation starter. First, cut a small slit into a tennis ball with a craft knife. Then make your tennis ball organizer come to life by decorating it with assorted pipe cleaners, pom-poms, googly eyes, or other crafting supplies. Paste a magnet or a suction cup to the back of the tennis ball, then attach it to any surface. Use your custom tennis ball organizer to hold various markers, pencils, or other items.
Dorm Room Upgrade Hack 2: Make Hanging Word Art
Personalize bare dorm room walls with custom DIY hanging word art. First, use a strand of thin wire to form letters, then attach faux flowers to various parts of the wire sculpture using floral tape. Finally, use adhesive wall hooks to hang the floral word wall art.
Dorm Room Upgrade Hack 3: Use Mason Jars To Make Cubbies For School Supplies Give your desk some handcrafted charm with a DIY Mason jar supplies cubby. Start by lining the rims of 6 Mason jars with washi tape. Next, stick an adhesive strip to the side of each Mason jar, then stack them in the shape of a pyramid on your desk. Finally, fill each Mason jar with school supplies.
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