From past experience I know that student dorms are not usually the ideal examples of great interior decor. In most university halls of residence you are not allowed to alter much within the small space allotted to you. The walls are shiny white and the flooring is usually a hard, drab and depressing fibre carpet with cigarette and coffee stains from the previous occupant. However, one college senior has turned the tables and designed a pretty stunning little dorm room.
Maximilian Sinsteden is a French and Art History student at the Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. His tiny shoe-box dorm room is located in the Hoyt-Bowne Hall and looks anything but a normal student digs interior. The 21-year-old bubbling designer has transformed his small space into an intriguing and rather delightful eclectic living and working space. His love for Stubbs & Wootton slipper shoes and melon-colored pants has become well known on campus amongst his peers who recently voted him “preppiest in the class”.
So popular has his decorating skill become, he has even started his own interior design company. What is all the more remarkable is that Sinsteden has no formal training although he has gained work experience and interned with a neoclassical decorator. That was when he was 15. At the age of 12, he had designed most of the rooms in his parent’s home, and then some more in the homes of his family’s friends. One of his first scale models of a room was constructed around this time out of gingerbread when asked to style and design a local historic house tour.
The usual boring dorm furniture has been put into storage. In its place has come a wide array of modern and vintage furnishings acquired from various sources ranging from thrift stores to family connections.
Re-purposed ascots act as tie-backs for the curtains. The copious amounts of alcohol supplies for his friends and he, sit in front of a large indoor plant.
The walls (color: Ralph Lauren’s Tapestry Green) are adorned with art works, documents, sculptures and photos from various sources. Some are from his travels to Jaipur and Bombay in India. There’s a model from his design mentor Charlotte Moss (an interior designer whom he worked for one summer) and various bits and pieces from tag sales, thrift and consignment stores.
The Chest of Draws seen above was found in a thrift store for a mere $80. The hung tie rack is a family item with finials from P.E. Guerin. He certainly likes his ties does young Mr Sinsteden.
H/T: NY Mag
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A very well done room!
so neatly arranged things in the room..and has so many shades…sometimes i want to have one or two colours in ma room but i see dat a mixture of colours also does the trick….