By PIPER GALLAGHER, Student Reporter
Ready or not, here Christmas comes!
Soon everywhere you look there will be lights strung across streets, ornaments on trees, and festive inflatables in people’s yards. But there are ways to bring that holiday cheer into your own dorm room.
There’s no need for your beige walls to be sad during the most wonderful time of the year, so here are the best ways to add some Christmas magic to your room.
First, the easiest and most obvious way to get a dorm room ready for Christmas is a tree. Mini trees can be found at stores like Hobby Lobby or online on Amazon. They can be found in a variety of colors and can be decorated with shorter strings of light and mini ornaments. A tree around three or four feet is suitable for dorms.
Another easy and affordable way to spruce up those bland dorm walls is with Christmas lights. Lights can be strung with command hooks around the top of the walls and can also be found in a wide range of colors and patterns.
Even better, they can be left up after the holidays as extra everyday dorm decor.
This decoration can sometimes be slightly more costly, but a door mat can have festive designs that match the holidays.
These can be left right outside or inside your dorm entrance.
Finally, a less conventional way to add holiday ambience is with window clings. These are holiday shaped gels that stick to mirrors, walls, doors, and of course, windows.
Putting these on the mirror in the shared living space in the dorms is the perfect way to add unique decor for any holiday!
“I really like decorating the bathroom area in the Cunningham Hall dorms for the holidays,” Olivia Saner, a junior health and sports science major from Dawson, Nebraska said. “My roommate and I have light up signs of our initials that change colors, so we always match the colors to the holidays. We also like putting lots of gel window clings on the mirrors.”
Most of the decorations listed can be reused every year, or for multiple occasions, which can be super convenient and cost effective.