Create your own dorm room style. Start by looking through magazines, decorating books, and shopping. Keep in mind the colors and patterns Dorm Essentials for Guys that inspire you. Try to narrow your favorite colors down to two selections. Once you've done this, add a third accent color. With your color palette established, you can move on to patterns.

Dorm room bedding is important as it sets the tone for your mood. Select patterns that make you tick or smile. Do you like damasks, animal prints, polka dots, hound's-tooth, or stripes? Have courage and mix them up! Remember that you will be living with your bedding for 1-4 yrs. Also, make sure your fabrics are comfortable and durable. Become tactile. With your colors and patterns established, let's move on to bedding essentials.

1. Comfort- Add egg crates, mattress pad covers and featherbeds for luxurious comfort.
2. Find out if your bed requires twin or TXL sheets and what thread count or feel you like.
3. Add the bed skirt to hide the under the bed items and add that finishing touch.
4. Pillows are VERY important. Select memory foam, down or poly fill for a sweet sleep. Add color and pizazz with decorative pillows in a variety of sizes.
5. Decide on a duvet or comforter. Duvet covers allow for ease or cleaning and flexibility of insert weights. Duvet covers are available in a variety of patterns and fabrics. They are no longer boring solids.
6. Add a foam headboard for lush comfort when sitting up in bed relaxing or studying.
7. Designer chair slipcovers are a great finishing touch to update your room.

The dorm room bedding selections have been made and now you are in the home stretch. Time to add the bling! This is a great place to get creative. Add custom wall monograms, Photos are a must to link you with all your memories. Think outside the box of ways to display them. Hang off clotheslines, frame with vinyl removable designer frames, or put on a screen. Install window panels or fabric banner to the walls. Find things you love and incorporate them into your dorm style.