Time for a challenge! H&H’s Joel Bray and Reiko Caron bring high style to a tiny, sterile space – a university dorm room at Ryerson University in Toronto. Learn how to fully transform a dull room into a stylish, young adult living space by adding personality with fabrics and accessories. Oh, and Joel builds a headboard in under 10 minutes. No big deal.
The space came with a number of restrictions, like bossy carpeting and a dull blue color palette, so Joel and Reiko had to work with the room’s decor instead of against it. After repositioning the furniture and removing a lot of the pieces, like burgundy curtains, a side table, a task lamp, chair, and “prison bedding,” an extension rod was added to display layered sheer and dark drapes. The same drapes are used to hide the closet, but on shower curtain rods since they’re adjustable. Joel created a headboard with cardboard, foam and pretty patterned fabric for the bed, which was styled with throw pillows and a sequined duvet. A classic table lamp brings light to the bedside and desk, while an inexpensive large framed map – which was DIY’d – adds the final pop of pretty, helping to transform the 100-square-foot room into a stylish, young adult living space.
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As cool as this is, NO student will even consider spending any amount of money to decorate a room they’ll only live in for a few months. Not to mention the one you worked on was already more furnished and bigger than the usual dorm room.
Love.
thats a tiny home
Wow!!! I’m speechless!! This looks so good!!!
At the school I went to, most of these additions would have been against regulation.
Where did you put all the furniture and stuff you took out of the dorm room?
What kind of dorm room came with furniture this nice?
Love.
What if they went into the wrong room and the person came home to a completely decorated room for free like YES! Scratch that off of the to do list
I wish my dorm had that wall storage thing above the desk. I wonder of there’s any way to put something like that up without drilling nails into the wall… Idk if command strips are strong enough for that tho :/
love it!!!!!
I love what she said . … don’t fight the color just work with them
this is the most beautiful dorm room I ve ever seen, and its HUGE
I like the way it is. Well anyway the whole video is so fake.
Why didn’t they move the bed to the other side? Then you’d also get to face/ look at the nice decorated cabinets.
Honestly the way the dorm room came is better than any room I’ve ever had since the beginning of college
My single will be about this size. Thanks for the tips! 🙂
Must be nice to have a dorm room all to yourself!
can u guys just pls fly over n help me decorate my room
Weird placement for that thing over the bed. You get up and whoa headache.
hermoso!
When you’re a broke college student, you can’t really afford to buy so much fancy stuff for your dorm
So flippin’ cute! Awesoe!
I really love this room. What a great job! Thanks for sharing your ideas!
So great. Learn a lot from it
How good this image
its nice doesnt look like dorm looks like room at home nice work
I love interior decor
Above all
Jesus saves
He loves u
He is coming again
Amen
They made this look like a nice hotel lol
I love this room
It’s essential to have a book on Belgium and Luxembourg in every dorm room!!!
Looks great!
This dorm room is HUGE compared to mine!
It’s nice, but where are the storage????
If only my dorm looked this good!
I’ve been trying the closet curtain idea, but it falls down every night. Suggestions?
My dorm room is having that ugly orange wooden furniture , this one is much way better than mine .
It’s look like amazing…
nice design
To have a single means (the college kid either has high standards even if poor or has rich parent ms who spoiled him or her) paying almost double.. and sometimes it’s cheaper to get larger apartments nearby the school than dorm, imo.. better for your credit than paying dorm..