How can you make a dorm room colorful when u can't paint and can't nail things in the walls?

Shelf contact paper can be trimmed and applied to make really fun designs and decorations. Sort of like making your own homemade decals. The contact paper is vinyl and then gets peeled off when you move out.





Using regular paper, you can decorate and make trim using reusable/temporary poster putty/stickum.





And if your walls are white, you can hang very, very lightweight fabrics up using sewing pins as tacks. They make super small holes and you can ';spackle'; them using White Out at the end of the school year.How can you make a dorm room colorful when u can't paint and can't nail things in the walls?
Many places sell this sticky tack stuff that holds up posters and photos on walls and is really easy to take off. What I did in my room is print out a bunch of fun pictures of my friends and myself and then posted them on my wall in a kind of checker board style. It looks really cute and bright and it's a great way to be reminded of your friends from high school.





Another thing I did was buy a cute bright sarong from like Target. I then used it as a kind of drapery on my wall behind the tv. It's cute, bright, and totally easy.How can you make a dorm room colorful when u can't paint and can't nail things in the walls?
You can staple and when you leave just fill the holes very carefully with a little joint compound. If your walls are light, it is hard to tell. What we used to do when we wanted our deposit back, is buy material and very carefully staple it to the top and bottom of some of the walls. Use straight pins if it needs tacking in between. The best thing I saw my nephew do was get an extra frame for his bed and put his bed on top of the second one and then have his study area under his bed. That was the smallest room I ever saw. You can hang things from the top bed.
Someone has somewhat answered my question, but get some Studio Tac - it looks like a pack of white candy strips or gum- a little piece of this will hang posters and light framed work to the walls without harming it.





Also you can get other hanging methods that don'tt put nails in the walls, like chain hangers, etc.
I would Use a really bright bedspread/quilt...tie in curtains to match....get a bright rug to either match or contrast...and use fabric to cover the doors of the wardrobe, if you have one, or closet doors...if you have cabinets, you can easily fasten the fabric to the inside of the cabinet with sturdy tape...and it can be taken down when it is time to move out, without having harmed the room and incurring damage charges.
If you want a bright room, try doing bright bedding and you can tape same color poster boards to the wall. Use for picture collage, schedule remainders, etc. Try adding color with a furr rug by your bed, and colorful lamp shade to match!
I would get sticky tack/tape to hang some posters up. Get fake (or real if you have the time to keep up w/ them) flowers/ small trees.


A decoritve bed spread....Cute lamps.
Indulge in various addictive substnaces..they make allkinkds of wild colors appear.