- Hey guys, it's Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles
and today we're gonna show you Rylan's dorm.
Just so you know, she shares a room with a roommate
that we don't know at all,
so out of respect and privacy for her,
we won't be showing you her half of the room.
We'll only be sharing Rylan's stuff.
Just know that like what you see on this side is basically
reflected on the other side for her roommate.
And Rylan is living on a communal floor
so they don't have a bathroom attached to their room.
It's not an apartment style, it's literally just a room
and then there's a communal hall and a communal bathroom.
We'll get going.
It's gonna be fun.
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I think for me personally, one of the trickiest things
with dorms is just trying to make 'em feel homey.
'Cause obviously a lot of times they're kind of old,
they're beat up buildings, or they have cinder block walls.
So we try to do a lot of things that make 'em feel soft
and cozy and feel like a little piece of home if you can.
And then organization of course is very critical.
Okay, welcome to Rylan's Official Dorm Tour.
How are you feeling about it overall, Rylan?
- I like it.
I'm excited to live here.
- [Mindy] Basically this is Rylan's space, from this, back.
So when we came in, Rylan, what was over here?
- [Rylan] The mini fridge.
- [Mindy] There was just like a mini fridge sitting here
and literally a cinder block wall.
We felt like you could easily move the fridge over here,
'cause it's a community fridge for her and her roommate,
and then make this like a really fun loungey sitting area.
- Which I feel like is always good to have
in the dorm room because people are always in your room
and you don't wanna have them sit on the floor.
So it's actually good to have a chair.
- [Mindy] So we found this chair at Target.
It was Studio McGee's new one that just came out.
Only. - This is from Target.
- [Mindy] Most of the stuff is from Target, I'll link it.
The blanket, the plant was also Target.
The mirror was Target.
- [Ry] That plant was Target.
- [Mindy] That plant,
the gold thumb. - That was TJ Maxx, right?
- [Mindy] And the table were TJ Maxx,
so I won't have links for those.
The rug was also Target, but like if you look,
it just feels so different.
- [Rylan] Feels homier.
- [Mindy] It feels like a little piece of home.
Gives 'em a little space to sit and study
and do something fun. - Sure.
- [Mindy] Okay, so one of my must-haves for dorm rooms
or kids that are bunk beds or anything
where it's gonna be hard to make
because it's against the wall, is a Beddy's Bedding.
So, Rylan picked this one. - Here's the zipper.
- [Mindy] It's just zips, so it's just a zip up, zip closed.
- Yeah. - The inside is.
- Minky. - That's like
really, really soft.
- These two pillows, like pillowcases,
came with my duvet, which was from Amazon and it flipped.
If you see, - Her duvet
- Has two patterns. - So it's reversible.
You can see this side
and then this side. - Which we'll link.
- [Mindy] And the duvet insert I got from Beddy's,
'cause they're really nice and soft and fluffy.
- Then this pillow's from Target, this pillow's from Target,
and this pillow's from Target.
- Rylan wanted a cuddle blanket
so she got this one that's massive.
- I like - LOL.
- I need a big blanket, I like blankets, so.
And we have a mattress topper on here
from Amazon. - Oh yeah,
we have a mattress, of course I always do that.
One thing we always do is mattress cover
and then mattress topper. - Yes.
- [Mindy] We got this wood piece from Target
and there were two of 'em.
So we actually put one over on the roommate's side
for her too.
- [Rylan] Which the roommate said we could.
- [Mindy] It was cute.
- [Rylan] And then I have my wall collage.
I think I'm gonna add a few more.
This is Kamri's newest wall collage,
it's being sold on Lash Next Door.
It's called Nice and Neutral, which is exactly why
I put it up because it's nice and neutral.
- [Mindy] I think we just need to add a few more right here.
- [Rylan] I just used like zots to put these up,
just like little sticky. - They're little sticky dots
that you can buy at Target.
And then we have underbed storage.
We raised the bed up and she's got her laundry basket.
We did two shoe racks.
We kind of strategically put the shoes she uses the most
on this side 'cause she can access 'em
from this end of the bed really easily.
- [Rylan] These little drawers,
these are like one off drawers that we just stacked.
In here, I have like just like my like bras, underwear,
stuff like this.
Then I have all my socks down here, gym clothes over here,
and swimsuits down here because this is stuff
that like I didn't have like drawer space for.
- Closet. - Then you turn over here.
Here's my closet, which is actually way bigger
than I give it credit for.
- [Mindy] We were very skilled at our organization in here.
- Yeah, up here I have four of these bins from
- Target. - Target.
And in the back I have like doubles of like extra deodorant,
extra shampoo, stuff like that.
Right here I have face towels and then I have
like just like extra kind of miscellaneous stuff.
- [Mindy] It's basically just kind of like
your linen closet storage.
- Yeah, it's just like all my extras.
My sunglasses are in here.
- Yep. - In these blue bins
from Target and all my like bulky sweatshirts
because they're too bulky.
And we have my North Face coat.
- [Mindy] This will also be where she'll hang her bath robe.
We just haven't gotten it yet.
- [Rylan] And my two bath towels.
Then down here I have my slippers
for like in the night, 'cause I don't wanna put on my shoes.
And then my bath shoes and my bath or shower caddy.
- [Mindy] And because we knew some of this stuff
would probably be drippy and wet
when she's done using it, we got a little,
like a silicone mat to put down to help catch the water.
- [Rylan] Which is so nice.
It like just dried it all up and so it's not like warping
the wood or anything like that.
And then, oh and this shower caddy's from target.
And then down here we have just all my snacks.
- [Mindy] And there's actually quite a bit of space
back there still.
- [Rylan] No, it goes so deep.
- [Mindy] It's so deep, we haven't even used it all.
But this is like her little pantry, basically
for her snacks.
- It's my snacks and - We need
to cut those tags off. - Yeah, like that.
But these are from Target.
This is like my locked drawer.
- [Mindy] Everyone has one drawer that can lock.
So if they have like really private things,
they can put 'em in here.
- [Rylan] But for me it's just kind of more
like miscellaneous
stuff. - Rylan has camera equipment,
some cords, her money vault.
- [Rylan] This is like extra trash bags.
- [Mindy] This is a toolbox Shaun left with her
so that she can do anything she needs.
- [Rylan] It's just like stuff like that.
Then in here I was able to put all my pajamas.
So these are all my shirts, my shorts, sweats, sweat shorts,
and then I have my jeans.
- [Mindy] Nice, all your pants.
- [Rylan] Yeah, and then my shorts all in here.
- [Mindy] This chair came with the room.
We think it's really ugly but it's staying.
- [Rylan] I have like my school stuff under there.
- [Mindy] She's got her backpack
under there, - Don't look at that.
- [Mindy] a trash can we got from Target
and her new books that we just picked up yesterday.
- [Rylan] I have this vanity, I believe it's from Amazon.
This is this is like an essential, if you have a dorm room
that doesn't have like a lit mirror.
I have been using this and one just like taps on and off
and it's just plugged in under here, which is really nice.
And then you have like a pen holder.
I don't have any pens to go in there yet,
because I haven't started my homework.
- [Mindy] Little lamp.
And then I got her this little jewelry container.
- [Rylan] It's like a lazy Susan, like it spins around.
- [Mindy] She's already put up all of her T Swift photos.
- [Rylan] Yeah, I pinned those up.
This is all like pin board.
- [Mindy] And then a lot of this decor we either found
at Target or Home Goods, like thinking man was Home Goods.
This little vase and candle were Target.
This little, oh my gosh, word, terrarium, is Target.
Baskets are Target.
This was Home Goods, Home Goods.
Target, Target.
And mostly, - And this is my film camera.
- the goal was to just make it feel nice
and decorated and still give her a little bit
of space for her books.
- [Rylan] If I wanted to, I could put
like baskets here for like more storage.
But after we got all the baskets we needed,
I realized I really had more storage than stuff, so.
- [Mindy] We talked about wallpapering
this back here too, but after we got the decor on,
we were like, "It's kind of nice, just plain."
So. - Yeah, it's like neat.
- [Mindy] The only thing we've talked about adding
is some of those click on lights at the top,
'cause it does seem like it gets a little like dark.
Up on that top shelf.
- [Rylan] Then I have this extra,
this is like miscellaneous stuff
like portable chargers, scissors, cords, film,
speaker, headphones, it's like the basics.
This is kind of my random drawer right now
until I figure out stuff.
And then I have a makeup bag and my makeup brushes.
- [Mindy] Also, you can see we still
have lots of empty space.
- [Rylan] Oh yeah.
- [Mindy] Back in here behind these things
if she wanted to get more baskets,
she'd even have more storage.
- [Rylan] Yeah, this is Stoney Clover.
- Cute. - So cute.
- [Mindy] Which company sent that to you?
- MIX:BAR.
- [Mindy] MIX:BAR sent the Stoney Clover bag.
- We got this towel. - I do wanna get
the one thing we haven't been able to find yet
that I want is something for here.
I don't know, I think like a little sconce
or something would be cute.
Or a little picture.
- This towel is from Target and this is from Target.
This is just to make the room smell better
because we can't have candles in here.
- [Mindy] And for storage underneath,
these weren't here, but we bought these
and two of 'em are Rylan's
and two of 'em we bought for the roommate.
But they could just have a place they keep like their Q-tips
and their hair product, like, tooth brushes.
- [Rylan] My skincare, my perfume.
- Her hair stuff. - Yeah, all my hair,
my lotion, face lotion, and teeth whitener,
and all this stuff.
We got this curtain to kind of make it look
a little less ugly because the blinds are really old.
- [Mindy] You can see that like without this stuff here,
this window was super sterile and cold.
So just adding this curtain,
Rylan wasn't a believer at first.
- I don't really - And I told her,
"No, no, trust me, - love curtains.
- the curtains will look so good."
So just getting a little softness here.
- [Rylan] And then we got this plant from Target,
these glasses from Home Goods I think.
And then this basket I'm pretty sure
is from Home Goods as well.
- Target. - Oh, target.
- [Mindy] I think it's Target, yeah.
- [Rylan] And then we got more stuff over here.
That's my Stanley.
- [Mindy] Look at how cute this lamp is.
I freaking love that lamp.
- [Rylan] That's from Target.
This is from Target, and this is my plant from orientation.
They gave us plants.
I've been watering her. - And I made sure,
one of the things I loved was that this light turns on here.
So Rylan, when she's sitting here, it's really easy
for her to just reach back and flip it on and off.
Were you surprised when we came in?
You were like, "Oh man, this is so small,
we're not gonna fit everything."
- [Rylan] Yeah, it definitely looks small.
- [Mindy] And we brought in like bags
and bags and bags from Target, too.
- I think that was at four car loads,
like seriously. - A lot.
- A lot of carloads. - A lot of stuff.
- [Mindy] But then it all gets put away
and you get it organized and it's crazy how much
you can fit in a small space.
- Yeah, especially like organizational stuff.
I would recommend anyone going to a college dorm,
get a lot of organizational baskets and stuff
because you can fit a lot more than you think.
- [Mindy] Yep, we have this rug too, we got from Target.
I need to get her some carpet tape.
- A little crinkle. - So it will lay flatter.
I think just the rugs add a lot of texture
and dimension to the room.
It's pretty much it.
- This my new room.
- [Mindy] Are you ready, Rylan?
You start school tomorrow.
- Tomorrow morning at 9:30 in the morning.
- Hope you guys enjoyed this room tour.
We're gonna miss Rylan at home.
- Yeah, I'm in college. - She's gonna have
the best time ever.
She's gonna meet all kinds of new cool people.
- For sure.
- And miss me terribly.
- I'll be here with Kamri.
You'll see me and Kamri a lot more.
- That's true. - Because we're together.
- Peace out, we'll see you guys next week.
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