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FEATURE
CREATE YOUR DREAM SPACE ON A BUDGET
DECORATING TIPS THAT WON'T REQUIRE TAKING OUT A STUDENT LOAN
| ALEXANDRA ESPOSITO |
You're finally living in your own place away from your parents and free to live how you choose. Now is the time to replace those Star Wars sheets from middle school and put together your perfect space. Decorating can get expensive, so use these wallet-friendly tips to create a space that reflects your personality.
Amie Young, a junior from Olathe, hated her freshman dorm room in Ellsworth Hall. "When girls go to college, they envision themselves having a super cute dorm room, but my room sucked," says Young, who describes the room as cold, drab and boring. "It was the ugliest thing, it wasn't well decorated and it wasn't homey at all. So my goal for this year was to make my room bright and cheery. "I wanted to make it feel like home because I knew I'd be spending a lot of time there," Young says.
Before you start, ask your landlord or resident assistant what alterations you're allowed to make. Many residences allow painting and screw or nail holes as long as you repaint or patch the holes when you move out. Always ask before you change anything to avoid fines and insure that you'll get your security deposit back.
WHERE TO START
First, choose a goal for the room. What do you want your room to achieve? Do you want it to be a place to study, entertain or relax? What do you want your room to say? Remember these goals when choosing the room's theme, colors, furniture and accessories. Each choice should support your goal to insure that your room serves its purpose.
"Before buying furniture, art or accessories, you must look at the bones of the room or apartment," says Laura Buhrer of Laura Buhrer Designs in Kansas City, Mo.
Take note of the ceiling height and room sizes to determine what you need to fill the room. Then determine the seating you need and how it can be arranged. "Seating can be easily mapped out by using templates or newspaper to see how much of the room you wish to utilize," Buhrer says. "Then move to the tables, accessories and art."
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Young used her disappointment in her freshman year room to choose her new room's goal: to be a place she loves and feels at home in.
GET INSPIRED
Before you begin decorating, figure out your budget, says Sue Toler of Impressions Interior and Home Staging in Leawood. Determine how much you can spend, then make lists of what you already have, what you need to buy and any extras you'd like to buy if you have any left over funds. This list will guide your decorating purchases.
"Rooms reflect the personalities of those that live within," Buhrer says. "They create drama, serenity, moodiness, pleasure, comfort and desire. I believe that a home allows an environment that fosters these traits."
When choosing a room's style, it's important to choose a unifying element that will help you make cohesive decorating choices. This can be something broad like a color or theme, but can also be narrow like choosing pieces that match a vintage mirror you fell in love with at the Antique Mall on Massachusetts Street.
Buhrer suggests looking at magazines and design websites to determine your decorating likes
Contributed photo Warm and Natural: Stephanie Rosson, an alumna from Ada, Okla., describes her apartment's decor as "eclectic and earthy" with a lot natural hues.
and dislikes. Look at fabric stores or paint stores to put together a color palette that "entices and influences your choices," she says.
Toler says the key to creating your dream space is surrounding yourself with things you love. "Decorating a room must begin with defining the total look you're working for," Toler says. "The style of your room should be a reflection of you."
"If designing simply a room, themes often work best," Buhrer says. "Inspiration may come from a favorite movie, time period like the mod 60s or a college team."
When Young set out to find things for her new room, she fell in love with the bedspread that became her unifying element.
"When I started decorating, I didn't have a theme in mind, but when I saw my bedspread and I had to have it," Young says. "I decorated my room around that, but I also chose things I liked and they happened to match."
TRANSFORM FURNITURE
Furnishing an entire apartment can become costly. Garage sales, second-hand stores and relative's basements are filled with old furniture that you can get for cheap or free. But you don't have to use these hand-me-downs as is. Wooden furniture can be easily re-finished to look like new.
Stephanie Rosson's grandparents gave her four pieces of wooden furniture for her apartment: an oak dresser, two night tables and a hutch.
"It's quality furniture," Rosson, an alumna from Ada, Okla., says. "Furniture is expensive and I probably saved around $1500."
Although it was a lucky find, the pieces didn't match each other or the black and white theme Rosson wanted for her room. So she refinished the furniture and painted it black.
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Clearinghouse has had ample time to dig around and make a ruling. I'm not arguing for the eligibility or non-eligibility of the remaining two players.
In the weeks leading up to tax day on April 1, places like H&R Block hire hundreds of part-time employees to lighten the heavy load pushed upon them in tax season. It makes sense. I'm not math major, but the number of incoming freshmen this time of year — in every sport, not just football and basketball — is a pretty significant number. And if I'm not mistaken, most high schools graduate around the same time of the year. Why not hire a truckload of extra help in the summer so guys like Justin Hunter and the Kansas duo can get an answer before they turn 30?
I'm arguing for a ruling.
Maybe H&R Block can show the Clearinghouse how to handle a rush. They deal with the IRS; it can't be much worse.
remaining on the game clock and the game on the line.
On third and six from their own 30-yard line, Texas Tech stunned everyone — including the Kansas defense — by running a draw play to their running back Taurean Henderson.
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Henderson ran up the middle and didn't stop until he reached the end zone for a 70-yard go-ahead touchdown run. Texas Tech took a 31-30 lead with which they would eventually win.
The loss was an epic collapse and an embarrassment to the program. The Jayhawks have not been able to shake the loss against Texas Tech, as they've gone on to lose four consecutive games to the Red Raiders.
The losses haven't been ordinary, either. Kansas has allowed 30 points or more in
VIC SHEALY
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pact on this ball game," Gill said. "We're looking at their team and what they're doing in 2011 and we're looking at what we're doing in 2011."
What's happened thus far in 2011 does not bode well for the Jayhawks.
Texas Tech's offensive numbers, while not quite what they used to be, are still very daunting, as the Red Raiders average 523.3 yards of offense per game.
Kansas defensive coordinator Vic Shealy said that, although he doesn't have the same running capabilities, Red Raiders' quarterback junior
The numbers really appear to be ominous when taking a glance at what the Kansas defense has done in 2011, ranking last in the nation by allowing an average of 550 yards per game.
So when the Jayhawks take the field Saturday against Texas Tech, the odds will be against them to break the four-game losing skid. To overcome those odds, they'll have to have a defensive game plan that has not yet been seen in the previous matchups against the Red Raiders.
"You've got to be able to pressure the quarterback to get him out of rhythm," Shealy said. "In three ball games, they've had 21 passes for over 20 yards. You've got to limit that big play, and no one's done it. Hopefully we can do it."
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CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN FILE PHOTO Facing a threatening offense, Kansas will need a new defensive strategy to beat Texas Tech. The Jayhawks have lost the last four games against the Red Raiders.