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APARTMENT GUIDE
3. Outfitting your apartment
6. Build it yourself
8. Used furniture
10. How to hang up posters
12. Background info on posters
13. Entertainment centers
15. Cute and cheap
editor's note
16. Kitchen essentials
Finding your ideal apartment is only half the battle. Now you have to figure out how make your apartment your home. You have to buy all the necessary appliances and electronics. And of course you have to find ways to decorate your place whether it's just like everyone else or your own innovative idea.
When my roommates and I moved into our Lawrence apartment two years ago, our walls were completely white. We knew we had to do something to make our apartment "our own." At the time, I worked in a video store so I was able to get multiple random movie posters we put all over our living room. In addition, we ripped off the covers of my roommate's Maxim magazine two year subscription he had hanging out in his bedroom.
But the one decoration that really topped the cake was a paper mask of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn we found in Maxim, a promotion for "Wedding Crashers," which
had been released that summer.
We cut out the paper masks and sketched out bodies for the actors similar to the "Wedding Crashers" DVD. Soon enough, quotes from the movie began to appear on our walls.
spring 2008 kansan staff
The way you decorate your apartment says a lot about who you are. We hope that with this apartment guide, you are given some tips about what you can do to decorate your place and the best ways to do it. Good luck.
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The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. This guide to our apartment is the third of four apartment guides published by The Kansan each spring.
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APRIL 3,2008
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN