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Dorm Room Accessories: From Plain to Fabulous

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Headboard| Fabric| Rug| Drapes| Shade| Lamp

Dorm room accessories are the key ingredient to taking nad ugly room to a fabulous room. I just had my first experience in dorm room design. I moved my daughter into her first dorm room last week. Designing a dorm room has its challenges. Take a look of the dorm room before we started!

dorm-room-accessoriesMy daughter and I saw the room in June during orientation. The middle bed was in the room temporarily. Thank God!

As you can see, I had my work cut out for me. The challenge with a dorm room is that you don’t want to break the bank decorating a room that your child will only live in for 9 months. My first stop was my dear friends fabric shop, Graham Kracker. She carries beautiful fabrics and makes custom bedding. My daughter and her room mate chose the darling fabrics pictured above.  We also purchased a white matelassé bedspread and dust ruffle from Graham Kracker.

My favorite online shopping site for discounted home décor is Overstock.com.

The dorm room accessories I purchased were the white “pleather” headboards for $139 each.  What a bargain. The indoor outdoor rug is also from Overstock as are the drapery panels, which were $49 each. I couldn’t have bought the fabric for that. My friend at Graham Kracker added a navy blue trim to the edge and sewed the 2 panels together. They look like custom draperies now. I found the darling lamps at Target.

Are you ready for the big REVEAL?

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I was really happy with the outcome – especially the monogram with my daughter’s initials. What do you think of these dorm room accessories?

As a luxury decorator in Midland, Texas I don’t normally practice *design on a dime* but it was fun to do it this way for my daughter’s dorm room so she feels free to change things out as time goes on as she further develops her own style preferences.

Decorating a dorm room is challenging, but not as challenging as leaving your first child at college. What a truly bittersweet experience. When I have a sad moment, I look at these two pictures of my daughter – one in her new dorm room and one of her from last year making the UT Austin Longhorn’s famous *Hook Em* sign.

Yes, the dorm room is beautiful, but the real beauty lies in the independent and smart young woman my daughter has grown to be.

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Leslie Hendrix Wood

Decorator

Founder, Editor In Chief
Hadley Court
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Gracious Living. Timeless Design. Family Traditions.


About Leslie Hendrix Wood

Leslie Hendrix Wood is the founding editor of the luxury lifestyle and design blog, Hadley Court and an has her own interior design firm, Leslie Hendrix Wood Interiors in Midland, Texas.

Leslie received her undergraduate degree in business. She worked briefly in banking and returned to school to earn her MBA.

Upon graduation, she moved to Washington D.C. to work on a Presidential campaign and received a Presidential appointment to a position in International Trade.

At the end of the administration, Leslie returned to her hometown and joined the family oil and gas business, although her first passion has always been, after raising her children with her husband, business and interior design.

When she saw her children were closer to leaving home, she decided to start the blog, Hadley Court. in 2012, which won the Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame award for Best New Design Blog in 2013 - a prestigious honor granted by her peers.

In 2014, she is, in addition to blogging, beginning to build the family friendly luxury lifestyle brand: HADLEY COURT, based on her values of Gracious Living, Timeless Design and Family Traditions.

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