Personalizing Your University Room: Tips for a Homely Touch

These are ways to make your university room a home away from home.

The importance of a plan. This comes in the form of a colour scheme. I would suggest three core colours. Your base colour is white, grey, beige tone, or black. Then, I used two shades of blue, light and dark navy blue. This was due to the fact my theme was the beach. The beach is my happy place, and I feel calm. I want that idea around me while I cram and stress about my studies. The next element of your plan is to think about metal brass, gold, silver, and rose gold for your hooks, candle sticks and photo frames. This is the first thing you need to do, so look at your accommodation room online to check the colours already in the room and try to incorporate the furniture colours, fabrics and types of wood into your colour scheme and room accessories.

A rug is a perfect way to elevate the room from the floor. It could be a fluffy one or a pattern that divides the room. It covers what is likely not very clean or comfy—also a perfect place to do work if you are a floor person.

Having photos of family and frames is the perfect way not to get too home and have some photos from events like prom or birthdays. These are perfect to add to your gallery wall or have on your nightstand to make it feel like home, having those who make your house a home around you whenever you go. 

 Gallery walls the art of collecting and patience to find the very collection for yourself. First, get your centrepiece built around your colour-themed furniture materials in your room. If some wood, some wood, and some black are incorporated into the frames used or the materials of the art do not just have prints; paintings and photos have embroidery, wood pieces, and pressed flowers. Create multiple layers. Also, it is essential to have different sizes and depths of art and different types of frames with chains, thick frames or thin. Remember your cloak as well. Add some fairy lights wrapped around it. It has a light-type feature that can be hung on the wall.

 Read the diffuser, as you cannot have candles. This is the next best thing to make your room smell like flowers, pumpkin or Christmas morning to eliminate all the smells of leftover takeaway and bring you back nostalgia and memories. If you would rather have something more therapeutic, an oil diffuser with a round of lavender would be good. You need to add water, and steam is created. Ultimately, This is a little less messy, as I have come home from lectures to the wind knocking my diffuser over.

 Get a book collection of your favourite books- even if you have some of your books there, you have already read them when you pick them up; you can be back in those welcoming, comforting places in your life. Also, they can always be organised in a way that is soothing and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Different types of lighting, whether that's fairy lights or a bedside lamp, any excuse not to use the leading light and create an austenitic. Create the perfect ambience to change from a working student to a relaxing student. Lights can be attached to the wall with command strips, but it is best to take a plain white wall and bring some life back into it. Also, another perfect time, if you are a candle lover but cannot have candles due to the rules, are electric candles. Though not wholly realistic, it does create that flicking or like that can be seen in its own shadow

 Plants and flowers, whether real or fake, will make you feel homer; natural plants increase oxygen intake in brain food during late-night cramming. I have had fake plants that have served me well from Ikea and real ones that have lasted me all three years of university. Fake flowers and plants are perfect if you do not get much sunlight or the curtain gives you privacy. Fake plants in the bathroom provide a greenhouse effect like your mini kew garden observatory. If plastic and natural are not your thing, dried flowers are perfect. You can make them yourself, and it is ultimately eco-friendly. If you are a keen maker and long to distract yourself with crafts, the Lego collection in botanical, flowers and plants could be the perfect fit while also holding onto that element of childhood.

If you have a TV, use it and create a photo wallpaper shuffle of photos or add a fireplace crackle from YouTube to make you feel so cosy, with blankets and decorative pillows to make your bed feel like a cloud. Though TVs are not the prettiest of things, dress it up and create your own make-shift Samsung frame TV and upcycle and photo frame to set on top of your TV. Or decorate the area around the TV with artificial plants, bits, and bobs to make it feel less of an eye sore.

Memory boards are the perfect way to express one's personality. Mine has a collection of Polaroid tickets, postcards, and images from the years. From concert tickets to plays and shows, it is what it says on the tin. My university room had a whiteboard, so I created a mini memory board with fresher wristbands and new photos with friends using my HP sprocket and some magnets to combine the old with the new of my university life. A whiteboard would be good if it could be attached to the wall. A corkboard or metal-wired one with pegs can also hang up those essential souvenirs from your life and university experience.