Wednesday, August 24, 1933
Daily Nebraskan
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By Kris Mullen
Home, so they say, is where the heart
is. For the next eight months or so, the
home outlook for most students is a
crowded residence hall, fraternity or
sorority house or unfurnished apart
ment or house.
The creative student, even on a low
budget, can turn the space between
four dreary walls into a comfortable
living space for, heart, mind, body,
books, stereo, Garfield poster and what
ever else is needed to make temporary
living quarters seem like home.
Interior designer Nancy Van Der
voort said wall color is important for
setting the tone of a room. If possible,
paint the walls alight color to make the
room look larger, she said. A light, neu
tral color also is easy to coordinate
with many other colors.
Before rolling the paint on the walls
though, students first should check
their housing regulations. .
Jayne Anderson, director of Panhel
lenic Affairs and Cooperatives, said
sorority members generally cannot
paint their house rooms, but fraternity
members are allowed to paint their
rooms.
Apartment and house renters must
receive the landlord's permission to
paint. Some landlords may even sup
ply the paint.
Students living in residence halls
can paint their rooms if they have not
been painted in the last 24 months,
according to Jim Calvin, Harper-Schramm-Smith
residence hall main
tenance manager.
The maintenance department pro
vides tools, such as brushes, rollers
and drop clothes. Students can buy
the paint at a discount and choose
from about 14 pastel colors, he said.
Van Dervoort said once the walls are
painted the desired color, window cur
tains can be bought or sewn to coordi
nate with the walls.
Curtains and bedspreads can be
bought to match or color coordinate
with each other, she said. For easy
care, they should be a material that is
machine washable.
Curtains can be sewn from sheet
material and will match sheets on the
bed.
Curtains for a room on the north
said of a building should be a light
color to allow light into the room.
Yellow, green and light blue are
colors that conserve light, she said.
"Yellow is a sunny color," Van Der
voort said. "And 90 percent of all peo
ple like green."
If the floor is not carpeted, rugs or a
carpet remnant will give the room a
warm look and will be warm for the
feet on cold winter mornings.
Carpet stores sell sample squares
that can be patched together for a
checkerboard effect.
Bob Baruth, owner of Lincoln
Carpet Center, said he has various
sizes of samples that sell for 25 cents to
$3 each.
"A student can cover a dorm room
floor for $25," with sample squares,
Baruth said.
He said the squares can be cut into
creative sizes and shapes and pieced
together to form a design. Van Der
voort suggested keeping the squares
shades of a certain color, or picking
out one color for the room's dominant
color.
Baruth said carpet remnants can be
bought for various prices, depending on
the type and style of carpet. He said an
8-fQot by 12-foot jute-back carpet
costs between $50 and $80.
Van Dervoort said throw rugs or
grass rugs can be used to creatively
cover a floor.
Bob Creal, manager of Pier 1
Imports, said he sells natural floor
coverings made of sea and rice grass
and maize.
Coverings of sea and rice grass cost
59 cents a square foot, and the maize
coverings cost 99 cents a square foot.
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