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the new york times has a fantastic story this morning about learning from college students’ dorm rooms. i personally wasn’t lucky enough to go to school with anyone as creative as some of these kids, but i sure wish i had been. there are 19 photographs of several students attending pratt, risd, sva, cooper union and yale and what they’ve done in their homes. i love the loft bed created by a pair of coupled architecture students at cooper union, diagonal shelves by a pratt student, the honeycomb cardboard bed frame, and the risd kitchen that looks way better than mine. some of them didn’t seem like the best fit for this article (painting a room a rosy color counts as creative?) but for the most part there are a lot of great ideas to check out. click here to read the full article and just click on the slideshow feature for the full piece. [the times doesn't allow you to re-run text or images from any article of theirs so unfortunately i can't share the pictures here, sorry!]

more must reads? billie and tootie’s guest blog posts this morning (one on a new artist and one on a seriously awesome music school)- click here to check them out.

[image above from bryan boyer's sneak peek- these photos were taken when bryan was a student at harvard graduate school of design. click here to check out his full peek]

so cool. funny thing was i just hung drawers i had recently found, on the wall in my store in just the same way as one of the students had done, so when i came upon that pic I had to giggle! i had even put a plant in mine like they did…it was pretty weird…kind of like deja vu! But very fun article. i like the architecture student’s loft a lot.

I loved the loft as well! I wasn’t sure that the repainted room qualified as super creative, but I think the larger point was to give those people who think that redecorating a room means all new $$ furniture the idea that a fun new color can really change the feel of a room…

I attended the Art Institute of Philadelphia… We had some AMAZINGLY creative students in our dorms (at that time we live in the IHOP International House of Philadelphia on U of Penn’s campus…

It is totally refreshing to see these creations. I think I need a little road trip back to my college roots to get re-inspired! Thank you for the great article!

Yup, loft bed was totally my fave. Some of the other were very creative, but not necessarily something I’d want in my home. I guess that’s the beauty of the dorm life, though: you can try out anything and it’s “cool” because you’re a student!

I went to Pratt and we were always coming up with ways to make our dorm room fun and funky. I remember my sophomore year I had a foam core wall separating my space from my roomies space!!

You have to be clever to make it your own. I loved the shelves the Pratt student made!

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