Need trendy dorm decorating tips? (guest post)

Hello everyone! My name's Carrie and I blog over at Lego House. I'm so happy to be doing this guest post for Rachel! She did a guest post for me a few weeks ago when I was out of town and I definitely owed her one (:

Since both me and Rachel, and I'm pretty sure some of her readers are too, getting ready for the fall semester to start, I thought I'd do a little post on some different decoration ideas for dorm rooms! I think we can all agree that getting to decorate your dorm room is always the most exciting thing about heading back to school!

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1. Postcards A few weeks ago when I was in Maine, me and my friends stopped at a thrift store and found so many unique post cards. So we all bought a few to put up on our walls. For each post card only being $0.75, it's an easy and cheap decoration!

2. Vintage Posters I'm a huge fan of vintage posters and last year I had some posters of vintage Vogue covers on my wall and they looked amazing! You can never go wrong with vintage!

3. Watercolors I found these amazing water colors of ballerinas on Etsy the other day (seriously, the website has the greatest finds), and being a dancer, I'm absolutely went crazy for them! I think water colors are also a really easy thing to make (that is if you're artsier than I am) but are also really classy.

4. Flags/Banners I lived in Thailand for six years so I have a huge Thai flag that I put up in my dorm room. If you have a favorite country you've ever been to or from where you're from, I totally recommend getting a flag to put up! And I also know people who put up banners from specially events in their rooms (i.e. a few of my sorority sisters have hung up banners we've made for Greek Week).

5. Typography You can find plenty of different typography pieces on Etsy, but they're also really fun to make on your own! You just get to play around in Photoshop with different fonts and colors and come out with really neat things! I've made a few of my own with a few of my favorite quotes to hang up in my room this year.

6. Wall Mural I've never had a wall mural in my room, but after finding this tutorial, I really want to! Sadly, I don't think I'll have enough room in my dorm this year to hang one up but hey, I've got two years left at college!

7. Washi Tape Shelves Putting Washi Tape on the side of your book shelves is a really easy way to brighten up your room. My dorm room last year had all way walls and shelves so lining the edge of shelves with Washi Tape was a nice pop of color!

8. Mason Jars I think Mason Jars are perfect just for overall tidy-ness. You can put your pens and pencils in them at your desk or you can also store little knickknacks in them to help tidy up your space. 

9. Paint Swatch Art I found this tutorial last summer before I moved into my dorm and I fell in love! I went and got some paint swatches from the store that match the colors of my bed set and arranged them in a frame for some nice modern art for my room (:

My final tip for decorating your dorm is to go with the old wedding cliche of "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue". Have something old to decorate your room with to remind you of home. Have something new just for the excuse to go shopping and to also have thing that YOU picked out for your room. Have something borrowed, I have a few things from friends and my sisters, so you don't get too home sick. And for having something "blue", I mean that you should have something that isn't the color of everything else in your room just so your room doesn't get too dull and there's something exciting for the eye!