HOSTEL: How to add colour to your room

By Agatha Muhaise

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Our campus hostels are our second homes. It is the first place you will call your own even though you don’t pay the rent. It is the place where you rest after a long day of lectures, sort of serenity to take off stress. But if you treat it like a temporary room to get you through campus you will miss out on that sweet luxurious moment of relaxing in your room and feel at home away from home. You can make your room more homely by adding some colour to it.

Colourful bed coverings

Unless your plan is never to wash from the time you step on campus till you leave, I do not see why you should have a boring black bed covering. Colourful patterns add some life to the room. Like pink, purple, white for girls and blue, green for boys. Dull colours make the room sad and that will not help in relaxing.

Coloured cushions and pillow cases

Instead of a huge bed cover that will worry you about washing it. You can opt for pretty pillow cases and cushions to add life to the rest of the beddings. They could be plain bright colours, or patterns. You can play around with different colours of your liking, they do wonders in killing the dull.

Stickers

You remember in high school when you kept a book with pin ups of newspaper cut outs of your favorite celebrities. Well, its something like that but more advanced. Nice wall stickers can go for as low as 5000/- at Aristoc and they will do a great deal in lighting up the mood in your room.

Better yet you can chose to personalise it by adding photos of the people you love. And the only cost you will have to incure is paper glue.

Colourful rags

Campusers have a tendency of going for full room carpets and the colourful ones are quit expensive. Why cover the beauty of the tiles with a plain boring blue or grey or worse…Black?? Rags are pretty, they come in different colours and shapes. And you will find them ranging between 10,000/- to 70,000/- depending. they put character to the room and make to warm and welcoming.

 Decorations

You can also add colour to your room with simple antics like flower vasses, sweet bowls, beautiful wording frames, lava lamps and others. These may be gifts or something that caught your eye once and you decided to buy it. These add some personality to the room.

What better way to finish this than trying to covince you with factual research. According to a magazine called Lets colour, Studies show that different colours can trigger your mind to be more alert and creative. Therefore the right colours in your room décor could even help your brain to perform better. Other than you lingering in the library all the time like you have no bed.