Interior Spaces

There’s a version of dorm decorating where you spend four hundred dollars on matching sets from the same three websites

The floor is the first thing you step on every morning. It’s the surface where you sit when the desk

The desk you’re assigned when you move into a dorm room is, without exception, a beige rectangle with the personality

Nobody tells you that the cinder block wall is load-bearing to the entire aesthetic. Not structurally — the building’s fine

Here is a thing nobody tells you before move-in day: the theme isn’t decoration. It’s a decision about who you

Nobody tells you this before move-in day: the bed is the room. In a dorm, there’s almost nothing else. A

The standard dorm setup is a masterclass in institutional indifference. A bare mattress on a metal frame. One overhead light

The dorm room is the first space you’ve ever had full control over. No parents, no siblings, no one to

Nobody tells you how permanent a dorm room feels when you’re living in it. You move in with two suitcases