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First Dorm or Apartment Essentials: The Items You Didn’t Know You Needed
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items Must-have accessories and overlooked items that make daily living easier, more comfortable, and more organized. Perfect for college students, first-time renters, and young adults, this list highlights practical finds you may not think of until you ne...
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Top Desk/Nightstand Space Organization
Top Bathroom Dorm and Apartment Essentials
Top Lighting Solutions
Top Resources for Decorating and Affordable Hacks
Top Desk/Nightstand Space Organization
Small but essential organizers like cord and charger holders, pen cups, trays, and clutter-reducing desk accessories. Perfect for dorms and apartments, these items keep everyday essentials neat, accessible, and off the floor or tangled. Designed to s...
These help keep cords from sliding around or falling behind your desk, nightstand, etc.
8Pack Lamicall Spring Cable Clips - White
Having a vertical place to store different brands or kinds of writing utensils (pens, pencils, markers, brushes, etc) has been extraordinarily useful. This particular one is clear and rotates so that you can easily visualize what you have without tak...
Absonic 360° Rotating Acrylic Pen Holder
This bedside caddy helps store books, phones, flashlights, chargers, etc especially for raised dorm beds.
Lilithye Bedside Caddy Organizer w/ Straps & Bottle Holder
This bedside shelf organizer mounts on the wall. It can hold a phone, charger, drink, remote, etc. This is especially helpful for lofted beds or limited space.
WallShelfie Bedside Wall Organizer - White
These vanity, bathroom, desk, or even junk drawer organizers help keep makeup, brushes, pens, contacts, flossers, anything small that needs to be organized.
Vtopmart Clear Acrylic Drawer Organizer 25Pack
Top Bathroom Dorm and Apartment Essentials
Must-have, space-saving items like shower drainage shoes, drainage-friendly shower caddies, tub liners, plug-in fly catchers, and hygienic toothbrush holders. Designed for college students, first-time renters, and young adults, these practical bathro...
Whether they are clustering around fruit on the counter or emerging from a sink or shower drain, these indoor fly, moth, mosquito, and gnat catchers are easy to install and work for weeks on end!
STEM Flying Insect Trap - Indoor Fruit Fly & Gnat Catcher, 2 Devices & 4 Cartridges
Having a suction mat at the bottom of a tub shower is helpful to avoid slipping but also for dorms that may not be as clean.
OTHWAY 27x17 Grey Non Slip Bathtub Mat
These shower shoes are perfect for dorms or camps because of their drainage holes on the bottom. These keep you from standing in puddles and help alleviate mold or residue from forming. They are also anti-slip.
Shower Shoes for Women & Men, Anti-Slip Slides
This shower caddy is especially helpful in dorms or community bathrooms, as it has holes in the sides and bottom to be able to drain excess water and prevent mold. Also, its handle helps for ease of carrying and dividers keep products separate.
Portable Shower & Cleaning Caddy Organizer
This anti-rust large capacity shower or tub wall organizer can be hung at your discretion, allowing for as tall of a space for your products as you need. It also has a hook for your razor!
YASONIC Rustproof Adhesive Shower Caddy
This toothbrush, toothpaste, and flosser container is small in size yet keeps everything organized. It even has ventilation holes on the side making it easy to clean!
Electric Toothbrush Holder 3 Slots with Bamboo Dividers - Black
Top Lighting Solutions
Practical, space-friendly options like remote-controlled lights, motion-sensor night lights, and dimmable lamps designed for dorms and apartments. These lighting finds improve safety, comfort, and convenience—especially for raised beds, late-night st...
I like to get ready for bed in a darker environment to help me wind down.
L LOHAS LED Motion Sensor Night Light 2Pack
Having a dimmable lamp helps you wake up or wind down. This one is especially helpful because it has USB charging as well!
Fenmzee Bedside Table Lamp, USB C, AC Outlet
make it easy to turn lamps or string lights on and off from bed, adding convenience and safety to dorms or apartments. Perfect for raised dorm beds, they eliminate the need to climb down or reach awkward switches at night. Ideal for Christmas lights,...
Remote Control Outlet Light Switch Kit, 3+1
This tall lamp is perfect for small spaces but shedding plenty of light.
Modern Floor Lamp with White Shade, 60", Black
Top Resources for Decorating and Affordable Hacks
Helpful inspiration from trusted sources like HGTV, IKEA, Target, and practical home and lifestyle blogs. Designed for college students, first-time renters, and young adults, these resources offer ideas for organization, small-space living, and affor...
HGTV's youtube account has plenty of videos for how to decorate your first dorm and even ways for how to do it on a budget!
HGTV Home
Target always has a college dorm or first apartment line!
College Dorm Room Essentials : Target
Ikea has easy-to-assemble furniture perfect for a new apartment or a plethora of storage solutions for tight spaces!
College and dorm room essentials for the new you
This blog posts new dorm ideas every year helping you stay up-to-date and to help maximize what actually works!
Dorm Room Essentials, Designs & Move-In Tips