Decorating Your Dorm Room With Wall Decals

From my recollection of living in the dorms back at the University of California, I do remember that the dorm room had been very cold and dingy and colorless. It was awhile back though; all I can remember on the walls were my Oasis band posters and a movie poster for the film "Playing God" which is a pretty good movie. At first I had trouble adjusting to leaving the comfort and coziness of my parents home, and the plush aura of my bedroom in my parents home but I was forced to adapt to the dullness of the dorm room because of the distance the school was from my parents.

As I moved into the dorm room, I ran into a longtime childhood friend Anya, she is a very sweet girl, as well as being greeted by my dorm roommate a transplant from China, Hang Zhang, whom now has blossomed into a very well rounded painter and photographer. I walked into the room greeted with two small beds, boring as hell furniture that even Ikea probably wouldn't sell, plain white walls, cheap carpet and some bad desks that I probably wouldn't even dare use to studying on.

The one thing that I would do now if I were moving into a dorm that I didn't think about than would be the fact of wall decals and wall stickers. You are not allowed to paint your dorm room walls, well unless you want to pay the school a huge fine of course, but the walls are the worst part of the room. Wall art like stickers and decals are pretty cost effective and allow you to alter your dorm room more frequently, to keep the freshness rocking. Since you cannot paint your walls, you can use the advice of color with wall decals and stickers, by covering your walls with different colored wall art decals and wall stickers you can provide the appearance of painted walls.

The type of wall decal art you choose is totally up to you but it is definitely a good way to go in decorating your dorm room, below are some other tips I have gotten from interior design friends about dorm room decorating besides that of using wall decals and wall stickers.
Do not paint your walls or use wall decals of school colors (it is not cool)
Go modular with furniture if you can
Build a loft, if you are allowed to make changes to the room and it will open up space that adds a living room feel below
Lighting is key, not just the type of lights but how you display the lights or hang them
Multi purpose tables keep from over crowding
No more plastic crates or containers, rather try using cube ottomans as they look much better and look like furniture rather than storage
No boring pictures in small frames but rather take a normal picture and blow it up larger than a poster
Comforter choices in the dorm room are important, of course make it feel nice but design wise, go with something not too bold in pattern, maybe a solid or a two tone as it gives your more decoration flexibility with match for example your wall decals.
Throw pillows are great additions especially when have guest over; they provide comfort and nicely accent your room.