Tips and Tricks: Make your Student Room a Home

Tips and Tricks: Make Your Student Room a Home Tips and Tricks: Make Your Student Room a Home

by Shanna de Caluwé

1. Make your room smell nice! One thing that will certainly make your student room feel more like a home is the scent. You could either bring in some nice smells that remind you of home, or something completely new to create your own scent that makes you feel at home. Some candles or fragrance sticks will do the trick, which don’t have to be expensive; you can even buy them at Primark in the city centre! 2. The next thing that will bring more happiness into the sometimes quite somber student rooms are pictures. Hang up pictures of anything and everything, your parents and siblings, your pets, your friends from home, your new university friends and anything else your heart desires. Put your favourite ones in a nice picture frame and set them up in your room, which will instantly feel more like a home! 3. Moving on, plants are an easy way to bring some life into your room. Plants are living beings, which means you will never be alone in your room. As long as you are able to keep them alive, that is… If not, some colour from even fake plants will do too, nobody will notice anyway! 4. Another way to make your room feel more homey is to have little trinkets everywhere, unless you are more into minimalism, of course!

Things like seashells, little sculptures, dishes, cute boxes, postcards, etc. are a great way to make your room feel less empty and more like a home. 5. Lastly, soft things. This could be anything from a pillow, to a blanket, to a plush toy. These things make your room look a lot warmer and welcoming. The soft texture will make it feel very cozy and cute.