Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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Rosson poured liquid sandpaper onto a cloth and rubbed it over the furniture to remove the original finish. Then, she painted over the furniture with black latex paint and let it dry overnight.
"I love do-it-yourself projects and arts and crafts, so it was very rewarding," Rosson said. "I like knowing I got to take something plain and turn it into something I like and enjoy."
You can also transform ugly fabric furniture. If you don't like the fabric of a couch, recliner, loveset or futon, cover it with a slipcover.
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Young inherited an old loveseat that had been in her family since she was born. The seat is comfortable, but she couldn't stand to look at what she calls "hideous fabric with little flowers that look like clown faces."
Young found her a brown, faux suede loveseat cover at Bed, Bath and Beyond for $20. Unless you have a custom fit slipcover made for your furniture, covers come in standard sizes. To make the cover look like the real thing, drape and tuck the fabric until it fits your furniture.
ACCENT A ROOM
The furniture and walls are the basics of a room, but accessories are what bring the room to life and express your personality.
"Whether it's a fabulously framed music poster or an antique chandelier that was inherited from a family member, accessories create interest and take the ordinary and make it extraordinary," Buhrer says.
When choosing accessories, keep your budget in mind. Good pieces don't have to be expensive. Buhrer suggests shopping at stores like Target, Gordmans, Home Goods and Pier I for inexpensive, but tasteful options for accessories like pillows, shower curtains, and rugs. If your room is inspired by a decade, thrift stores, antique malls and consignment shops are excellent resources for finding unique, retro-style pieces at affordable prices.
Young's walls are covered in pictures, posters and prints. She chose these decorations as affordable ways to express her personality.
"I have tons of pictures in my room, in frames, on the walls, all over. They remind me of good memories and good people," Young says.
Young found her art posters and prints at the Kansas Union's poster sale and allposters.com. Posters are a great way for students to own a piece of art without having to spend thousands.
"When choosing accessories, remember your style, room size and mood of the room," Buhrer says. "The unexpected usually creates the most interest. Put wire shelves on a wall to hold books, display a grouping of clocks on a focal wall or use books as end tables."
If your budget or style only allow for a few decorations, lamps and art are accessorizing musts. To inexpensively finish the room, decorate with candles, ceramics or copies of your favorite books. Accessories are the final touches that bring the space together, so choose wisely.
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Cheap But Inspiring: The unifying element in Rosson's apartment are the nature-inspired pieces that she bought at inexpensive stores like Gordon's.
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USE WALLS TO THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL
WALLS HAVE THE POWER TO///
//keep you organized:
Remove clutter and papers from your desk and put it on your walls. Paint a wall with magnetic paint (Rust-Oleum specialty magnetic latex primer, 32 ounces, $20.99,homedepot.com) or cover the wall with corkboard (Con-Tact Specialty Coverings 48x18 inch cork liner, $9.97, homedepot.com) to create a space to hang important papers photos or syllabi.
///display your photography:
Use your own photography to create posters. Take pictures of you and your roommates or go around campus and shoot your favorite spots and have them printed as posters to decorate with. Snapfish com, 20-inch-by-30-inch poster, $19.99.
//help you study:
Paint a wall with chalkboard paint (Rust-Oleum chalkboard paint, 29 ounces, $11.64, homedepot.com) or hang a large white board (Quartet Melamine dry-erase board, 4-feet-by-3-feet, $84.99 Staples.com.) You can use these boards for taking notes, writing reminders or doodling.
If your room has limited storage, attach shelves to the walls to create a place to store your books,DVDs,records or favorite pairs of shoes. To keep stored items out of sight, use storage baskets on your shelves. Wall shelves can be found at stores like Target, Bed Bath and Beyond and Pottery Barn.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Heid said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message"
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still snocked to have actually published a book.
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
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Held will discuss this book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
Edited by Josh Kantor
student writers about students writing experiences.
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
Monday October 3, 2017
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
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