My one and only, Sophiefabulous, started her freshman year
the The University of Alabama this year and since the apple doesn’t fall too
far from the tree, she inherited her mother’s passion for design. More thought and care was given to the
décor of her dorm room than I’m sure was given to any scholastic project she
was assigned in the last four years.
Once a color scheme was selected (no small feat between two
roommates who are best friends but are NOTHING alike), the next challenge was
storage. Since her passion for
design extends to fashion, there is no dorm room in the world with enough
storage. After suffering through
her teenage years with her bedroom resembling as episode of Hoarders, I was
bound and determined to put her on the road to organizational maturity. But for Sophiefabulous, the most
important thing was that the room was, well…fabulous!
We tackled the storage issue head-on with a trip to, where
else? IKEA. Stacking two shelving
units with canvas drawers horizontally proved to be the holy grail of storage
and we were able to move on to design and décor.
After visiting, oh, I don’t know…543 fabric stores…we were
unable to locate a single fabric that was “just right”. Well, I am about to let you in on the
best kept secret in interior design…Spoonflower.com. You can actually design your own fabric, upload it, and
faster than you can say “My daughter is high-maintenance”, it will be shipped
right to your front door. So we
(that means “I”, with her supervision) designed three fabrics to use in the
room: two geometrics and an ikat.
Here they are:
On to accessories. No Southern dorm room would be complete without monograms! The towels were a start. Then we found adorable wooden monograms
for the walls!
The piece de resistance was the collection of desk
accessories from Dress the Desk, designed by her mama: a matching set of monogrammed
paperweight, desk blotter, and note sheets.
Here’s another version of the collection, on display at the
National Stationery Show, where we won Best New Product!
And here’s the finished dorm room…
Fabulous, right?
storage unit and canvas drawer, IKEA.com
wooden monogram, bellacreativeexpressionsboutique.com
