10 tips to make your bedroom a happy place to live

A plan with your roommates.

The couple that ends with two mini-refrigerator and two televisions not be. Talk about what you do when you want to coordinate your setup and what are the expectations of how your room must be used.

If you both want your room to a place where others around, you will want to sit on cushions on the floor. If your roommate goes to bed early, you will have a desk lamp that will be used to continue to work when the lights are able to be.

"The best roommate relationships on communication," said Stephanie Lynch, vice dean for residential life at the University of Georgetown . "Start a conversation before it in the school."

2 Buy nothing until you arrive.

As tempting as it is brilliant to buy the whole announced "bedroom should" contain. Find the basics, and then see what you need, when you get to your room.

If you wait, you can not elements who do not buy in your room do not work.

3 Purchase of furniture that can be used in many ways.

As you know (or will soon discover), the bedrooms are notoriously low. Clutter your mind not with furniture.

"Whatever should you bring in the extensive space always be versatile," said Stephanie Hayman, Product Manager Dormify bedroom decor and retail blog.

One of the best multi-purpose room is an ottoman that can be used for storage, seating, a coffee table or a small office if you sit on the floor.

4 Clean first.

The rooms are a black hole of germs. One of the best ways to avoid ill to live in a confined space must be kept clean for you and your space.

"If you come, be sure to clean the floor under the mattress and in the sink if you have one," said Robin Wilson, an interior designer who focuses on green cleaning. "Before bringing in your business, make sure that the dust that may have sitting there is completely gone in five years."

Quick tips to the rest of the year cleaning survive: Bring hand sanitizer, wash the sheets twice a month and keep the towels in the room.

5 Then you arrange your furniture.

After cleaning your new room, look at the design.

"It's easier to move furniture before all the clothes, books, pillows and there," said Liz Gray, editor at HGTV.com.

A few options that gray area indicate its movement bed lofting your wardrobe in the closet and put the desktop back-to-back with his roommate.

6 Conversion of vertical space in the storage room.

Another tip to save space Dormify:

"The front door, wardrobe doors and bathroom door everything can storage space with over-the-door hooks and racks of shoes are," Hayman said.

You can also use adhesive hooks on the walls for hanging coats, scarves, handbags and other accessories. Less clutter means more space to spend time with new friends.

7 buy small necessities in bulk.

Most students on campus without a car on campus, so it is difficult outside of school canteens and expensive college bookstores to buy.

Before Mom and Dad come home to a quantity discount, distributor, items you know you will use during the semester, including snacks, pens and toiletries, buy clothing.

8 Decide what you want to share.

Lynch says that the most common conflicts seen his salons Georgetown occur when roommates do not communicate. Think you're good with your roommate eating your snacks with their cosmetics or rent their clothes are.

If you ask him first? Whatever you prefer, it is clear.

9 Care in the bathroom.

You already know to wear shower shoes in communal bathrooms huge, but have you thought about protecting your toothbrush?

"It is by your side dirty water easy for someone on your toothbrush, while the face wash," Wilson said.

Try toothbrush sanitizer clip that come usually in a package of two, to facilitate germ prevention. Remember, your shower caddy wash often, too.

Again, the disease comes to you, if you live with dozens of others. In taking measures to prevent it, the chances of the class (or travel to Spring Break) You miss decrease.

10 Keep your desk clean.

Gray recommends solves nothing on the desk that you do not use every day, "as the charger for your cell phone, laptop and writing tools."

So you're always ready to study. You are about to learn in school, after all.

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