Living in college can be tough. Tests, assignments, late nights finishing papers… It can all be quite stressful. It doesn’t help when you have to put up with the cramped space of your dorm room and share a bathroom with forty guys.
You can’t change everything, but you can build yourself a better life in your dorm room. You can find a place to put all that junk you almost definitely need in your dorm room. And more importantly, you can do it on the cheap. Enter the primary building materials of the college student: duct tape/painter’s tape and card board.
For this project we also use pieces of a destroyed bookcase. The shelves of the destroyed bookcase make for an excellent table top once they are duct taped together.
After that’s done, you can duct tape the top to a box, creating a table. Since the box is hollow, it also can double as a secret storage unit for all the things you’re not supposed to have, especially the flammable stuff.
Drop a table cloth or anything else handy you may have on top and you’ve got yourself a small table.
Other good ways to improve your room can include a futon, especially one you salvage from the back of a van.
You can also build shelves out of cardboard boxes, simply stacking them on top of things. With proper furniture configuration, you can milk a little more space out of the room. Eventually you may be able to to fit 13 computers in the room… like us.
