<p>all of the command strip products saved me this year :)</p>
<p>I have a whiteboard I have hanging in my living room for notes/assignments to keep me organized, it requires nails to hang, I wonder how I’m supposed to get away with that. Cause I’m takin’ that whiteboard.</p>
<p>You are going to have to hang it a different way.</p>
<p>Funny story. I used gorilla tape on my walls last year, and given the type of walls we had as long as you peeled it off slowly it didn’t do any damage to the wall-- I put stuff up and took it down all year long with no problems. But when I was getting ready to move out, my mom came up to help me get packed. She saw me slowly pulling my marker board off the wall, got annoyed, shoved me off to the side, and TORE the thing off. It made a god awful terrible crunching sound and took the paint down with it. The shock and horror at what she had done had me DYING of laughter.</p>
<p>Oddly I didn’t end up getting charged for that. I figured I would get to taunt my mom when the bill came and she had to pay for it.</p>
<p>my sister had a quad and they had a huge puffy paint mural going in the common room. it actually looked pretty damn awesome. the stuff my sister did came off…but most of it didn’t…and the walls were complete crap material, so it put holes in the wall.
at her college, if the people have to do more than 6 hours of work on the room after you leave it, you don’t get housing for the next year. my sister is going abroad next year, so it wasn’t a problem for her, but she’s a nice person so she spent 12+ hours working on the walls for her roommates’ sakes (who had already went home).<br>
unfortunately, she tried to drive home the next day and wound up falling asleep…and pretty much totaling the car.</p>
<p>and on top of it all, they still got charged a bit. I guess the only “good” thing that came out of it was meeting her now ex-boyfriend who helped her out with the wall.</p>
<p>long story short, don’t puffy paint your walls.</p>
<p>dormco.com
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<p>and like crider, i would suggest a piece of tapestry to cover up a bland wall or two, just to add a little life to your room =]</p>
<p>Use painters tape.</p>
<p>Woah, woah, woah. I lived in Owen in the Quad last year. We definitely all used command strips all over the rooms. None of us got fined! Now if you pull paint off, they may fine you. But the RA’s are the ones that do the room checks, and none of them are really strict on that. My advice? First off, by carpet. The people below you will thank you! And it’s just a lot home-ier and all. Get cute bedding, and dust ruffles help make it like home, too, and hide your stuff! Get curtains and hang them with a spring rod. Lots of girls and some guys get shelves for over the bed and over the desk. You can get the wire ones from Target or WalMart, or get white wooden ones from like Moxii or other places. They cover up empty wall space, are great storage for picture frames as well as books and your printer! Then just use the command strips to hang bulletin boards or whatever! You can so make the room look comfortable and cute, you just have to think super hard on how to go around the rules!! Good Luck!!</p>
<p>I want to cover one of my walls with vinyl album covers, how can I do this without wrecking the wall?</p>
<p>if you get your wall decals from flair4all they are pretty cheap. i think like all the sets are 20 dollars and in a magazine i got a coupon code that was for 25% off and free shipping so they were only 15 dollars. the coupon code is SUMMER if anyone is interested. (make sure you do all caps or it wont work)</p>
<p>I like using a corkboard to hang my jewelry, you can also get adhesive corkboard squares that actually look really cute and sometimes have patterns on them. I like going to pottery barn teen for inspiration, because in a dream world I could afford their stuff. :)</p>
<p>I just thought of this while watching Frasier, I got a street sign with my name on it. That’d be pretty badass…</p>