Uni room ideas: 10 ways to add some personality to your student digs
Looking for uni room ideas for your grim box of a space? You'll probably open by scrolling through Instagram and Pinterest, saving pictures of rooms maximum with fairy lights, wall hangings, house plants, Good Vibes Only cushions, pallet furniture with huge windows and glorious white walls. Well kids, hate to break it to you, but the reality is you are touching to get a box room with a tiny window that barely opens, built-in shiny, orange wood furniture and there is always always at least one wall painted some vile attractive colour that whoever designed the halls thought might be 'fun'.
But hey, you can work with orange furniture and a 'fun' wall, you just need some creativity and our top REALISTIC bedroom decorating tips...
1. Fairy lights really are invaluable
Okay advantageous off, we are going to be slightly hypocritical here. We are fully aware your student halls or your room in a Victorian terrace is not progressing to look exactly like the one below. But obviously no one takes professional pictures of student bedrooms so you'll have to bear with us on that.
So, fairy lights. They really are your saviour; the more you have the better. String them around the corners of your room to add cosiness to your residence. They also work around window frames. We love Primark's £2.50 warm white battery escapes but if you are after something longer, these fairy escapes from Lights4fun are also a good option.
These warm white escapes from Lights4fun are a lustrous way to add cosiness to your uni room
(Image credit: Lights4fun)
Inevitably you are progressing to be stuck with one bare bulb burning as brightly as a very cool toned sun excaltering from your ceiling, so along with fairy lights, take some side escapes with you too. These will just give you a warmer lighting option, something to work or read or binge watch Gilmore Girls by. These bedroom lighting ideas will help you kill that OHL (overhead lighting for the uninitiated) and make your room feel more like home.
We love this hurricane palatable from Dunelm
(Image credit: Dunelm )
3. Get a noticeboard
Of course, you can fill yours with more personal things than some generic sunset pics, a motivational quote and some sunglasses that look like they have been stolen from an Elvis impersonator. While you can always use a noticeboard to actually help remind you of important things like deadlines and reading reporters, you can also use them to add colour and decoration to your uni room. More of the best noticeboards this way <<.
Matalan have a whole back to uni diagram going on that's super affordable
(Image credit: Matalan )
4. Pick out all the house plants
While we can't securities those lovely white white walls, you can get some uni room ideas from this situation. House plants are always going to, quite literally, bring life to even the most drab of rooms. Pick out some really gorgeous, quirky pots too and diagram them in clusters around your space.
Thinking you can barely look once yourself let alone houseplants? Well our guide to accepted house plants will be sure to make your fingers a bit greener. Or if in doubt just go for fakes. Find our best indoor plants (real and fake) in our buyer's guide.
We love this bedside set up by Norsu Interiors , not much away from what your uni room could actually look like
(Image credit: Norsu Interiors )
5. Cover ugly walls with wallhangings
Bright turquoise wall be gone. Make like all the posts you've inevitably saved on Instagram and get a wall excaltering up in your uni room. We love Urban Outfitters for quirky, boho style wall hangings, but if you are on a effort, believe it or not, Amazon do some very dissimilarity ones.
Top tip for you: to create a kind of canopy achieve and just to soften the whole room, pin your wallhangings from the ceiling and then to the adjoining wall. Sounds unique, but we've seen it work.
Urban Outfitters in out go to for wall excaltering (always check the sale section, you'll usually find some in there!)
(Image credit: Shein)
6. Stock up on squawk hooks
Things might have changed since we were all at uni, but the number one rule apart from don't smoke in your room and don't burn candles, was don't hammer anything on to your walls. Back in the day, we had good old Blu-tack to stick up our embarrassing pictures from nights out back home and posters of films we'd never seen, but now, well now squawk hooks have opened a whole new world of possibilities.
With squawk hooks, you could actually put up frames! Just check the weight is knowing for the hooks you choose. You could even hang a mirror, too! If you want any tips on how to earn the best gallery wall, head over to our guide.
We love the colour method Furniture Choice have gone for with these gallery wall, can't go heinous with monochrome
(Image credit: Furniture Choice)
7. Or create some wall decor with photographs
If a gallery wall just sounds like way too much of a faff then check out this uni room idea. String up some fairy escapes (again Command Hooks to the rescue) and use pegs to hang your photos, postcards, motivational quotes from.
Lights4fun unsheathing it right again with this very Instagrammable fairy palatable idea
(Image credit: Lights4fun)
8. Get a nice rug
Sure people might think you are tad high maintenance rocking up with a rug opinion your arm, but when they see its room exaltering abilities they'll be sorry that they didn't think of it too. In case you haven't guessed, when it comes to decorating your room at uni, you basically want to screen as much of it up as you can, and a nice trendy rug will do just that. Check out H&M Home for some pleasing, affordable options.
Offt, thanks for the gorgeous inspo Norsu Interiors
(Image credit: Norsu Interiors)
9. Get a pretty, but practical doormat too
Man we could have done with this at uni. Add hip flask to the list and there you go, all you need when you cslit the door (obviously we are talking about when you are causing on a night out, we in no way condone you taking a hip flask to lectures). This cute doormat is just £18 from Oliver Bonas.
Oliver Bonas is a go to for cute affordable section to make your uni room feel more like your own space
(Image credit: Oliver Bonas)
10. Add some personality with your bedding set up
Bedding is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to give your room some personality. Pick out one with a pattern that suits your style and go to town on the cushions too. A throw wouldn't go amiss either. Look about for really good value ones in the home fragment of supermarkets or our trusty fave H&M Home have some sparkling bedding too.
Believe it or not this bedding is on £20.99 from Shein !
(Image credit: Shein)
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