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Monday, April 15, 2013
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FURNISHING
CUSTOMIZING YOUR SPACE ON A BUDGET
KELSEY BARRETT
kbarrett@kansan.com
A dorm, apartment, or house serves as a home-away-from-home for college students. Adding some simple, stylish pieces can bring life into a space to make it feel more inviting. Customizing on a budget doesn't need to be difficult, but in order to stay within that budget, it is important to source multiple stores.
Target carries a line of furniture by the name of Room Essentials. It offers many basic items to accompany dorm life that also work for apartment living. They offer items for all different areas including kitchen space, bedroom, study area and bathroom. Most of the items in this line are reasonably priced, but there are a few items that seem to cost a bit too much. For example, they offer shower curtains for as low as $10 and fleece blankets at $14. Room Essentials is also a good resource for finding sets of things, like a 12-piece dish set for $22 or kitchen utensil bundles for less than $8. A general search for Room Essentials on Target's website will lead to all available products but then allows filtering by category, price, guest rating, colors and if the item is also available in store.
Walmart is similar to Target in that it offers items created specifically for college living. Currently they have a "dorm in a box value
bundle" for $85 that includes one "bed in a bag"
set, one wheeled storage truck, one 4-piece bath
towel set and one 2-pack of microfiber pillows.
There is the option to pick from different colors
and patterns.
Lowe's is usually associated with home improvement, and not a place where people buy decorative items for their apartment. They do offer supplies for projects and expertise, but they also carry some products that would be good for storage and organization as well as decor. They carry a hanging shoe organizer that can save space by storing 16 pairs of shoes on the back of a door for $10. Accent pillows are another fair-priced item that is a surprising offer. There is a range of prices and styles available but some pillows on sale are as low as $2.49 in addition to a dozen under $10.
Amazon is always a good resource to save some money because it offers new and used items. The site offers a large number of in-depth reviews on almost all of its products. When searching through the home decor section, it offers a feature to filter either by item type or a general color category. The color feature would be useful for carrying out a color scheme. Also many items qualify for "super saver shipping" which can save some additional bucks. Again, this is a site that carries a wide variety of items but one particular deal is a 6-piece towel set
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Bed Bath & Beyond is a good store to stock up on everything to furnish your apartment
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Junior quarterback Jake Heaps passes the ball during the second half of the Spring Game Saturday afternoon. Kansas' 2013 season will begin on Sept. 7 against South Dakota.
I know, it was just a spring totoa game. Neither Heaps nor McCay have proven themselves.
But why not make the comparison?
The past three years have been a disaster for the Kansas quarterback-receiver duos. Last year, it was Crist and Kale Pick, and no wide receiver caught a touchdown. The year before that was Jordan Webb and Pick, which resulted in two touchdowns. In 2010, the duo was Webb and Daymond Patterson.
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The big-time combination has been drastically missing since Reesing and Briscoe, but that might soon change.
Heaps doesn't have the mobility like Reeing, but he certainly has the arm. McCay is lacking in speed, but he has a similar frame and athleticism as Briscoe.
Look, it's a long stretch, but the possibility is there and has time to develop with both being juniors.
We'll just have to wait and see it develop in the fall.
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win over the White team. Local media voted Heaps co-offensive MVP for the game.
Kansas coach Charlie Weis said there were a couple of plays that Heaps could have executed better, but for the most part, the BYU transfer lived up to Weis' expectations.
"You've got to be encouraged when you watch him play." Weis said. "Strong arm, accurate, and knows how to read coverages."
Heaps' biggest target in Saturday's spring game was junior wide receiver justin McCay, who shared the offensive MVP title with Heaps. McCay's eightceptions helped produce 99 yards and a touchdown for the Blue squad.
Heaps and McCay spent a lot of time this offseason working together and carried it over to Saturday for fans to see. McCay sat out last year, but will be an essential part of the lavhawk's offense in 2013.
"What we need is a dynamic football player to go down and stretch the defense and make plays down field," Heaps said. "With him
McCay played in three games as a redshirt freshman at the University of Oklahoma in 2011, including one against Kansas. As a Sooner, McCay did not accumulate any statistics and still awaits his first catch in a college football game.
Although McCay has yet to make a name for himself, he is already a key player as Heaps continues to be the leader for Kansas. The quarterback-wide receiver doubled so that lot of potential this season in the spring game.
ing their teammates every Saturday and learning as much as they could before stepping into their shoes.
"It's a lot of fun to see him go out there and perform and play as well as he did," Heaps said. "Now we're going to expect that from him every single day."
Weis opted out of coaching in the spring game and scouted the team from the press box. He liked what he saw in the duo.
"I think one of the reasons why Jake had a big day is because Justin
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had a big day, and vice versa."
Weis said. "One of the reasons Justin had a big day is because Jake knows where to throw and where he's going to be."
Like Heaps, he sees the new opportunity to go from being a quiet football player to being a big
McCay said after the game that Heaps "amazes" him in practices as the two have built a lot of chemistry and camaraderie this year.
"It definitely humbles you," McCay said. "It makes you more hungry when you get on the field. I'm just trying to compete."
contributor under Weis' offense.
On Monday, the players will visit doctors and trainers to check up on injuries. Later in the week, the players will watch the spring game and receive offseason evaluations from the coaching staff. The players will have meetings with their
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position coaches on Wednesday and Thursday.
The players will soon begin summer conditioning. The team will report for fall camp in August to prepare for its season opener at home against the University of South Dakota on Sept. 7.
Edited by Tara Bryant
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