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Dorms generally have blinds, but decorating seems to be getting more popular. However, I would advise scaling back on the decor...this room will not look like Martha Stewart Living for long....
The president of my daughter's school gives great speeches. Last year, he told us he left a half-full bottle of energy drink on his son's desk during freshman move-in at his college. When they showed up for parents weekend, the same bottle was still there. And, the son and and his roommate claimed they had "cleaned" in preparation for visiting parents.
My daughter will be a junior this year and I think this story is illustrative of the reality of college living. Most of these kids are not very good at managing room cleaning, laundry, etc. Unless someone is a complete aberration, the room is not going to look good after a week has passed. Those 3M strips don't stick in humidity, so you end up with a bunch of posters and wall art that fell off. The keepsake knickknacks, little sister gifts, t-shirts, etc. really accumulate if a girl joins a sorority. Freshman year in the dorm and sophomore year in the sorority both started out cute, but devolved into mostly bare walls, cluttered sorority paraphernalia on every surface, hampers full of laundry, shoes everywhere, and unused minifridges, coffee makers, microwaves and even a TV all taking up space. And, they know it doesn't look like they intended it to, but they're too busy to keep up with it. I helped my daughter do a purge and a deep cleaning twice last year. After freshman year, my daughter rented a storage unit with some other sisters for all their stuff. Seriously, resist the temptation to buy/bring too much!
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