Dorm Room Diversity: The Designer Room
No matter how many colleges we visit, or dorm rooms we end up in after long nights of drinking (er, I mean, dorm rooms we see), the staff of CO-ED has noticed a general theme in dorm room decoration, whether we’re at a big or small school: the décor always falls into one of eight categories (four each, for guys and girls). Yes, Jake, you may think that the combination of a hookah and a wall tapestry makes you look unique, but it doesn’t; some other hash-loving hippie in Idaho is smoking in the very same atmosphere.
We have already told you about the infamous “Party Girl Room”, the (ew) “Garden Room”, the “Fratastic Room” and the ever popular “Sports Room”, but one of the most popular room for females is the “Designer Room.” Every hall has one…
You can smell the Burberry perfume the minute you step off the elevator and long before you can hear the beats of the latest Top 40 tunes blaring from a sleek black Bose SoundDeck. Walk into the room and, chances are, you will find two chic young ladies sporting a new pair of Sevens and a terry cloth Juicy sweatshirt as they sit Facebooking their friends on their sexy Power Books. Gucci, Fendi, and Prada bags are strewn across the floor (which their parents have had professionally carpeted in a luxurious off-white). Their closets, a far cry from being big enough to house their $75,000 wardrobes, are overflowing with Burberry scarves, True Religion jeans, and a few pairs of so-so-high and so-so-expensive Jimmy Choo stilettos.
On the walls, these girls have everything from a flat panel TV (tuned into MTV’s Laguna Beach, of course) to pictures of them and their friends at the most fabulous of places: a Caribbean cruise, the W Hotel in Manhattan, and walking around town with their purse puppies stuffed into an over-sized Louis Vuitton bag. Their beds are covered in the most luxurious of sheets, blankets and millions of cushy pillows all courtesy of the Donna Karen home line.
And, of course, there is an entire section of the room dedicated solely to the beautification of its inhabitants. Hair dryers, straightners, and hundreds of dollars of Nars makeup are stacked nicely in front of a mirror where these girls spend the bulk of their day before throwing their notebooks and multi-colored pens into their giant Longchamp shoulder bags and heading off to class. At which point you should head in there and raid their closets.
