<p>So my gf has given me the imperative that my new room this year needs to be less "minimalist with Asperger syndrome" which basically means putting up, yknow, stuff. So I've decided to buy a chair/sofa. That oughta be enough.</p>
<p>I always hear about green/2nd hand sales, etc. but never took down the dates.</p>
<p>What are the details of this initiative? Is it only during frosher orientation week? Where is it exactly?</p>
<p>Did anyone here ever find anything good at that thing or is it just semen-stained discharges? What's the price range?</p>
<p>well, what she’s really meaning is wall decorations, too. and not just posters, posters are just way too college-y. if you want a poster, put it in a frame.</p>
<p>see if you can get some wall hangings that are, maybe, a small tapestry, or some watercolor paintings, or something otherwise pleasant. Pictures are fine, or even collages, but should be framed. frames don’t cost all that much at target (I just learned!), and make everything look that much more “adult”. not to mention making them last longer, and easier to transport when you move.</p>
<p>but yeah, there will be some bazaar-type sales up on low plaza during orientation week. they will mostly be ripoffs. if you’ve lived here a few years you should know how to do better than that. set your standards, at the very least, by heading to chinatown and putting a solid hour into browsing stuff, then you’ll at least have a baseline.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with following her guidance on interior decorating as long as you can put your foot down on things that are important. I mean, hell, I’m <em>terrible</em> at decorating my room, I’ll take all the help I can get.</p>
<p>Want to send her over here? Does she do house calls? :)</p>
<p>Don’t make me say something unsavory about your mother, Steven. :mad:</p>
<p>I don’t mind per say (though I do have a new found admiration for those gay guys on the life channel that do this all day). It’s just a hassle from my usual pack-it-in-garbage-bags-and-throw-it-in-the-back-of-the-van approach.</p>
<p>Target does frames? I didn’t know that, I should look for that sometime.</p>
<p>For wall decorations, I just bought some basic frames that fit paper-sized pictures, went online and printed some pictures or graphics I liked from DeviantArt out on HQ glossy paper and hung them up. Everyone who has seen them thought they were “real” pictures. Frames were maybe $3 on eBay.</p>
<p>And yeah, Target does frames. You gotta go to 225th in teh bronx, on the 1 train. the problem is that right now the 1 train is FUBAR, at 181st, because of some debris that fell on the tracks. but you can arrange for delivery.</p>
<p>When did posters become “too college-y.” The guy’s going to college and, it seems, if he had his way wouldn’t bother putting up anything at all!</p>
<p>I’m also going to be honest and say that, depending on where you are living, you probably won’t have room for additional furniture in your room. JJ singles are small and if you value space you are not going to want to put anything else in there. Carmen doubles can be oddly shaped (I had a corner room which was narrow and there was simply no place for anything besides what I was given).</p>
<p>I was under the impression that “undisclosed” was an upperclassman or possibly already a graduate. Maybe I’m confusing them with someone else.</p>
<p>Regardless, you put posters (or any other wall hanging) in a frame because it looks better. It gives a touch of class, an air of stability, and suggests you take care of your things and have carefully thought this out rather than just slapped John Belushi in a “college” sweatshirt on your wall because everyone else does it. Think about how the walls in “adult” places look - you don’t necessarily need grandmother kind of stuff hanging around, but there are some lessons that can be learned there.</p>
<p>So I suppose there’s nothing technically wrong with looking like you just moved out of your parents’ place for the first time and don’t really know how to make a room look lke a home. But why not try to do better?</p>
<p>Ooh craiglist. That’ll do actually. I almost forgot that it was for more than to laugh at lonely guys in the m4w section. And yeah, she’s definitely worth it (Ok sure, I miss the time where the names Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorph weren’t a part of my vocabulary but yknow…)</p>
<p>I actually agree that framing looks better. It’s a drag but I have to admit that a cool laminated poster (on wood, not with a glass frame) of James Bond Doctor No is great to look at and preserve.</p>