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8.15.2012



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

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