TOP 5 TRICKS TO MAKE YOUR STUDENT ACCOMMODATION MORE HOMELY IN T

The identical bedroom layouts with their beech effect laminate desks, white or magnolia walls, and stain-disguising carpets, aren’t designed to be cosy or beautiful; instead, they’re designed to provide students with a suitable place to live graduation parties or all-night essay binges won’t mess that up.

Even at Oxford university accommodation and university of Cambridge student accommodation, where some student housing stretches back hundreds of years, the same ideas will almost certainly have been followed to carpeting and furniture purchases.

Here is a curated list of the top 5 ways you can make your student accommodation feel a little more like home:

Lighting

Bedside lamps are included in some student housing (primarily if provided by your student accommodation in London), but they are not in most. Under the glare of a 40-watt overhead bulb, which may have a plastic lampshade if you’re lucky, or maybe bare, no place appears cosy. If you invest in one thing, make it improved lighting for your student room.

It’s entirely up to you how that manifests itself. Buy fairy lights for a touch of whimsy (be sure to get ones that plug into the wall, or you’ll be spending a fortune on batteries). Alternatively, you may wish to use a standing lamp to light the space when the leading light is too bright, such as at a party.

Rearrange your Furniture

The fact that all of the rooms are often laid out in the same way contributes to the feeling of blandness and uniformity in student housing. There are many times when there is nothing you can do since the bed or desk is fastened to the wall, or the room is too small to arrange the furniture any other way.

However, rearranging your furniture is a quick method to make your area feel a little distinct from everyone else’s. Consider the location of your desk in proximity to your bed, for example. It may be feasible to arrange these in some rooms such that the bed and desk areas are separated from one another, giving the impression of having a separate bedroom and office space.

This can help with stress and sleeplessness by creating a positive boundary between your sleeping room and your working space, making you feel like you’re using the area better.

Invest in Rugs and Cushions

If you have a little extra pocket money to spend, consider upgrading your soft furnishings to make your student accommodation feel more cosy and homely. You don’t need to blanket your entire room in scatter cushions like you’re preparing for a magazine photoshoot, but a couple of them could make your chair more comfortable and your space feel more like home.

Consider purchasing a rug to cover an unsightly carpet that is making your room less pleasant to be in. Rugs can be pricey, but you might be able to locate them for sale or secondhand in charity shops or at boot sales.

If the problem is that your room’s interior decorating is dull and based on a magnolia theme, rugs and cushions allow you to inject some personality into space.

If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, you might even consider replacing the curtains with something more to your liking; thicker curtains than the ones given can even pay for themselves over time by insulating your room and lowering your heating bills.

Photos and Postcards

One of the easiest ways to make space feel like home is to have objects around you that remind you of your loved ones. To avoid being surrounded by low-quality inkjet printouts, it’s worth obtaining good reproductions of your favourite images of friends and family.

Even if your lodging does not allow you to use blutack or less destructive blutack substitutes, most will provide you with a noticeboard on which you can post photos (as well as your timetable, if you must).

If you and your closest high school buddies attend different institutions, send each of them a postcard from your school and request one in return.

You’ll have something gorgeous to hang on your walls, and you’ll receive a lot of mail at a time when you may otherwise be lonely. A few postcards and a stamp book are both inexpensive, and your pals would surely appreciate it.

Look after a Plant

Plants are undeniably one of the most effective methods to make a place feel more welcoming, and they also help replenish the oxygen supply. Without going so far as to buy a fish, having a living item in your room that you’re working to keep alive can be pretty comforting (which might require a bit too much commitment).

The difficulty is that student housing isn’t always the best climate for plants to thrive in:

• It’s frequently warm.

• The air is too dry.

• You might not have a window where it can get sunshine.

• You should probably plan on your plant not being watered regularly.

Consider houseplants extremely difficult to kill: cacti, spider plants, jade plants, and pothos are all tough plants that tolerate neglect and overwatering. If you want a more significant challenge, consider something unusual like a Venus flytrap (which requires a lot of water but is otherwise easy to care for) or a fruit-producing plant like a fig tree or tomato plant.

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Author’s Bio:

Anannya Chaudhary is a content writer living in Delhi. As soon as the clock strikes the completion of the last working minute of the office hours, you can find her on the way to her favourite food joint, brimming with excitement to devour a plate of chicken momos. When going gets tough, you will find her falling back to her old and trustee companion, ‘The Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ to reboot. You could classify her as that one designated annoying friend who makes you cry if you resist her dragging you to the dance floor.