Top Ten Tips - Making More Space In Your Dorm
By Tip Diva | Aug 06, 2008
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Dorm rooms aren’t exactly the biggest or most comfortable living areas, especially if you live with other people. Here’s how to make the most out of the limited space you have:
- Bring The Minimum Amount Of Items - Don’t bring more than you need from home. Instead of bringing your whole shoe or stuffed animal collection, only bring what’s important to you.
- Pack Seasonally - Don’t bring your snow boots and swimsuit - pack seasonally.
- Divide The Space Evenly - Make sure both you and your roommate have an equal amount of space - you’re not going to have much closet space if his or her clothes are hogging 75 percent of it.
- Share - Instead of bringing two TVs, two stereos and other space-hogging items, talk to your roommate about splitting up who’s bringing what. For more, see Top Ten Tips - Packing For Your First Dorm Room.
- Put Your Bed On Risers - If your dorm allows, put your bed on bed risers or cement bricks. It could give you enough space to store extra boxes, or even the mini-fridge.
- Buy Closet Organizers - Shoe organizers, stackable boxes, overdoor organizers, add-on hangers and other organization systems will help you both maximize and save space.
- Buy Stackable Boxes - Buy stackable boxes to store everything from stationary to your shoes. Being able to stack things high will save you horizontal space on bookshelves and in closets.
- Use Modifiable Bookshelves - Buy bookshelves that can be modified - for instance, they can be built in many different configurations, can be split or have shelves that could be moved. You can then modify them to your space needs.
- Use Drawer Organizers - Draw organizers can help you save vital space in your desk drawers and help you find things easier.
- Put Shelves Up - If you’re not allowed to put shelves on the wall, buy a hutch that you can put on your desk, or even put a bookshelf on top of your desk. Just make sure it’s sturdy.
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One place that’s easy to overlook is the space over the toilet. Using a Spacesaver or something similar adds storage space but doesn’t really take up valuable floor space.
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Those are good tips - it can be hard to fit all your stuff and your room mate too into a teeny tiny little dorm room! Propping the bed up is a good one for fitting stuff underneath :)
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I wish I had read tips like these back when I was living in a dorm room. My place was a mess and I didn’t know what to do about it. My roommate wasn’t too happy about that either! This advice will surely help some college students.
This post is interesting. I hope many students staying on dorms will have the chance to read this. Great source of information!
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Outstanding tips for new students…thanks. Like the “put the bed on risers” tip. Combined with a roller equipped under-bed storage box, this will free up a ton of room.
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Great tips, especially when you have a small dorm room where you barely have space to turn!
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Ten tips will help a lot. Dorms provide small space so i suggest students should read this post.
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These are some great and useful tips.
I think the point about spliting the space evenly is really important - i’ve had problems in the past, do it when you start to avoid problems
There are lots of space saving devices and boxes and things on the market that are available - just try to share things with flatmates - that can help
Really some good tips to save some space in the Dorm.According to me the rising bed option is the best one.You have to be organized in order to get some space.It’s not that when you start staying the dorm you do it, No you have to organize everything everyday.
These tips are awesome. I just gave myself some more walking space!
Don’t forget - you have to “train” your room mates to keep the place clean and safe. With everyone having a laptop now, if your room mate leaves the door unlocked it could cost you a thousand dollars you don’t exactly have.
Outstanding tips for new students…thanks. Like the “put the bed on risers” tip. Combined with a roller equipped under-bed storage box, this will free up a ton of room.
If I had of known these tips as a student i wouldnt have been living in a complete mess the whole time, hopefully they will help lots of students around the world get organised!
Jeez, where were these tips when I was in school? My dorm room was a warzone and it wasn’t even my fault. It was my jerk roommate’s. I agree with discount godaddy domains, train those roommates to be clean because your efforts don’t means anything if your roommate is a slob.
I used to buy these vacuum bags too : I couldn’t go back to my hometown on a regular basis so I would put my winter coats in them in the summer and vice versa. Helped me save lots of space
There’s not a lot of space in these dorms so any tips on how to save it are very useful! I will be talking to my son about how we can save space and energy while at uni this year!
Where was this blog when I was in college? Oh ya, the internet hadn’t even been invented yet. Cheers.
Excellent life savvy tips. That are known thing but we rare follow it. Thanks for this reminding, thoughtful and wonderful tips.
I could have definetly used these tips a few years ago! Thanks for sharing! :)
I just recently moved into a smaller apartment in a better location, thanks for these tips, they were useful!
I could have definetly used these tips and then check the results. If it really works or not. :)
wow, some of those tips are very usefull, thank you very much!! :)
Those are very Good tips… closet organizers like shoe rack is also a good way to have more space in our Dorm.
These tips are useful especially when a person is away from home or planning to be.
It’s worth to read those persons who live in hostels. They much be get beneficial to read this post.