A room can say a lot about a per­son. Organizing and dec­o­rat­ing your liv­ing space can be like a hand­shake from your furniture.Here are some ideas to help you out that won’t cost you an arm and a leg.

First, try to build a loft bed. They give you a lot more floor space, and you can dec­o­rate the wood using paint or any­thing else.

If you are in a room with only one bed, use cement blocks to raise your bed for extra stor­age space.

Because the rooms are so small, the loft beds aren’t the only thing you can use to cre­ate space. Instead, you can pur­chase the plas­tic con­tain­ers with pull out draw­ers or just a cou­ple of milk crates to stack. Both of these can be found at a vari­ety of stores.

To give the room some color, string Christmas lights along the walls. You can use an old set from home or pick some up at a dol­lar store around Christmas time.

Another way to give the walls some color is to cre­ate a mural on butcher paper. Create a design you like using pens, mark­ers, paint, or just about any­thing. Once the design is com­plete, you can you use putty to hang it up on your wall. The best part is, when you get sick of one design, you can cre­ate a new one to stick up in its place.

If you don’t like the mural idea, the clas­sic posters are also a good way to go.

In order to cover the win­dows in the room and bath­room, make your own cur­tains. Drape an old blan­ket over the win­dow or buy a piece of fab­ric to hang up.

If you have a refrig­er­a­tor in your room, buy some mag­nets to hang pic­tures or impor­tant notes with. You can find cheap mag­nets at a dol­lar store.

For other pic­tures you bring, you need frames. Instead of buy­ing the frames, find a piece of card­board, some glue, and any­thing you want on the frame, like glit­ter or but­tons. Glue these things on, and you have made your own frame.

An addi­tional way to dis­play pic­tures is using a French Memo Board. The board has rib­bons criss-crossing each other in order to hold things in place. This pre­vents spend­ing money on the putty or tacks.

The last thing you might need to make your room a lit­tle cozier is a rug or an old piece of car­pet. This will pre­vent your bare feet from hit­ting the cold tile when you first get out of bed.

There is plenty more you can do but these are some sim­ple guide­lines to help you cre­ate a space that fits who you are and helps you save money.