subject: Making A Room Your Own [print this page] When you move into a new space you naturally want to make it your own. You want to work within its configurations to create an environment that you feel comfortable in. Owning a space means adding personal touches, making smart bedding decisions, hanging art that inspires you and putting up pictures that make you happy. Essentially you want to feel cosy and exactly yourself in the space you created. A few suggestions of how to do this are:
1. Walls:
Walls are what surround you at every instant of the day and night. It's therefore especially important that you like the way they look. You might choose to cover them in a collage of framed photos and artwork, or you may find a wallpaper print that you love and use it to cover one or all four walls that surround you. If your walls are uneven, you'll have to make an extra effort to work within their configurations. Hanging art on slanted ceilings for instance is basically impossible, so you might choose to tuck your bed under them instead and save the art for a big, open space.
2. Colour:
For some people, having a colourful room is very important. They feel more at home in a space that is red or yellow. For others, basic, inoffensive and unnoticeable shades work best. A clean look is what they're after and that tends to be best achieved with beiges or eggshells. But just because you have a preference for beige walls it doesn't mean that you also want beige furniture and minimal decorations. No, it could be because you want to fill your room with colourful throws, scarves, bags and books. A person who paints their room a loud colour might face colour overkill if they then fill it with bright belongings as well.
3. Things:
The things in your room say as much (if not more) about you as the space, size and colour you choose to paint it. Flowers on a dresser, candles, jewellery hanging from elegant mantelpiece mirrors all scream 'girl'. Sports posters, mess, stacks of books and CDs all scream 'college boy'. People get stressed about cramped space. They worry that their belongings will have no real place to live. But what tends to happen is that the more cluttered your room is, the more intimate it becomes - because all of your personal belongings are on display.
The trick to making a space your own is inserting as much of yourself into its decorations and layout.
