Housing Decor

[jetage]

Hey Ladies!

We were looking for cute ways to decorate our house for recruitment. If anyone has nice ways or photos of sorority houses with awesome interior decor, please post them! Thanks.

[Xidelt]

I always think simple = classy. For example, pick one color and go with it (although in a tasteful way.) Or maybe using black or silver as an accent color, finding an inexpensive fresh flower that you can use in arrangements throughout the areas of the house you will be using for recruitment. Use backdrops or dim the lights to cover up areas you may not want to highlight as much.

[TinyDancer98]

Agreed about the simplicity. Try picking one color (maybe depending upon how your house is painted/decorated?) and accenting it with silver, black or white (or a combo of two of those). It's pretty easy to coordinate matching plates, napkins, flower vases, balloons, picture frames, etc when using simple colors. I don't have many photos from our recruitment, but our walls are a lavender color, and we accented with silver, light blue and white. In the beginning of the week we used more blue and white (ADPi colors) and tapered down towards just the silver and purple for pref. We use lots of fresh flowers on pref night, so the toned down colors really made the flower arrangements stand out. Keep in mind that simple, cheap decorations can go a long way- we used string lights on pref so we didn't need overheads on, and since we have high ceilings we used a lot of balloons with short silver ribbons earlier in the week and it created a really cool balloon-covered ceiling (balloons don't always have to be tacky!). Find a color scheme and a mood that fits your recruitment (do you want warm and homey? cool and classy?) and go from there.

[GammaDelt]

This probably goes without saying, but we always make sure some of our nicer house "artifacts", for lack of a better term, are always displayed during recruitment. For example, we have this awesome plaque that we always make sure is clearly visible. We also may strategically throw a GDPi blanket somewhere, or something like that.

[Zillini]

No expense: Have members bring pictures showing groups of sisters in those cute lettered frames almost everyone has to scatter around. (To state the obvious make sure they are tasteful and follow any Panhellenic rules: no cups, no guys, etc.)

A bit more expensive: Pick some of the best ones. Make black and white blow ups and have them framed.