Gifts for the dorm room are the best and most warmly received gifts for grads, because there is a lot a young person needs just starting out on their first real big adventure in independence. The key for shopping for dorm room décor is to first consider the basics of a dorm room. A dorm room is the ultimate multi-purpose room, and will always have some decorating and living challenges that should be met with creative endeavour. A dorm room could serve the purpose of a bedroom, a living room, a study, many times the kitchen, the library, and quite even possibly the entertainment room for the whole hall…and most of the time this decorating challenge is shared with another person in a 10x10 suffocatingly small space who could quite possibly be as opposite in personalities and decorating style as a Manhattan yorkie is from a Serengeti rhino.
With all of these size and personality considerations in mind, here is the best solution. A dorm room grad gifts should fall into one or more of these categories: stylish but not unnecessary, multifunctional, space saving, non-intrusive to other roommates, and essential for living. If the gift fits into these categories, it's probably great!
Bedding is an absolute essential. Since dorm rooms can't be painted and most universities won't even let students hang up wall décor, make up for welcoming colour and décor style through bright and colourful bedding. Beds, often times, will take up most of the space, and therefore bed linens will be the ultimate statement of style.
He or she is likely going to experience all four seasons, and so consider extra bedding for the cool seasons and light bedding for the summer. Duvets, doona covers, sheet sets, pillows and pillowcases, mattress covers (YES-mattress covers are absolutely necessary), mattress pads, quilts and quilt covers, and throws make perfect dorm room gifts.
Bathroom accessories are also a very necessary and inexpensive gift for the dorm room. The college bound kid is going to need face washers, bath towels, flip flops for the questionable community showers, and a bathrobe (no more walking around a room naked).
One very affordable and very popular gift for grads now a day is to purchase inexpensive bath towels, hand towels, and face washers, and have the student's monogram embroidered onto the fabric. This way there are NO excuses for mistaking whoever owns the last clean towel left in the room.
Other necessary accessories to add to the room décor is a rubbish bin, vanity mirror or door hanging mirror, soft small floor rugs to keep feet from having to constantly touch cold tile, floor cushions to sit on and study or watch TV, plenty of warm throw rugs, extra toss pillows for the bed to add colour and comfort, and a seat cushion for the hard rock back desk chair that unavoidably comes with seemingly every dorm room in the world, a mini ironing board, and some basic kitchen accessories like cutlery, one dish set, and napkins.
All of these product ideas will contribute towards one happy dormer, and the more comfortable and well rested the student, the better they do their first year of college and beyond.
The House Queen, http://thehousequeen.com.au/, an online source for home decor, is a family owned business created by Katrina Foulkes-Taylor. In the wide open country of Western Australia, bringing refined taste and style into a home required traveling great distances, time, and money that couldn't be sacrificed. However, there was a great demand, and The House Queen was born.
Katrina responded to the need by not only supplying products and accessories for the entire home, but by also posting helpful decorating advise from constant study of interior designers, home stagers, home improvement editors, and other experts in the field through her blog and informational articles posted online.
