What are some tricks to make small rooms look bigger?
"In our case, it's to minimize the real amount of furniture. We were finally lucky enough this year to get a dorm room with enough space. Dorm rooms don't exactly allow many decorating options, but in the past we've always tried to arrange the furniture to create as wide of a floor space as possible. Every function had its own designated corner of room, and every object had its own place."

Photographed by Christy Kurtz