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By Monique Bos Many college students struggle with how to personalize residence hall rooms, particularly given the constraints of small space and limited budgets. One Savannah College of Art and Design student shows how it can be done, with a little help from the New York Times. Rebekah Adkins, who will complete her M.F.A. in interior design at SCAD this month, participated in the paper’s “Extreme Makeover: Dorm Edition” challenge, in which students from four design schools were given a limit of less than $350 each to redo a room at their institution. Adkins joined students from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Pratt Institute of Design and Rhode Island School of Design in the challenge. The New York Times covered the results Aug. 1. The only guidelines stipulated that the students had to remain within their budget, and they had to observe their university’s rules regarding dorm room decoration. At SCAD, a room at Oglethorpe House, 201 W. Oglethorpe Ave., received the facelift. Adkins told the Times, “I wanted to create a sanctuary for a freshman fashionista. For instant sophistication, I … chose deeply saturated colors of robin’s-egg blue, chocolate and hot pink as a central design element.”
To cover white walls, Adkins hung blue and brown butcher paper. She also created low-cost rugs by painting stripes on canvas shower curtains. She covered most of the standard-issue furniture, such as the headboard and footboard of the bed, in fabric or butcher paper to soften the contours. For finishing touches, pillows and plants serve as pleasant, economical accents, and a floor lamp provides mellow light. Adkins also used unique tables to add personality. “Modern shapes, clean lines and bold color are what this space is all about,” she told the New York Times. “Cheap chic — that’s the overall goal.” For a question-and-answer interview with Adkins, visit http://myscad.scad.edu. |
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