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    23 Hacks For Your Tiny Bedroom

    Congratulations on your first apartment! Time to suck it up like the rest of us.

    1. Hang your lamp.

    2. Get a console table for your bed that doubles as a shelf and a desk.

    3. Hang towels and things on the back of your door.

    4. Disguise your desk as a bedside table.

    5. Or, instead of a footboard, use your desk.

    6. Prop up your bed on risers.

    7. Or go for a high bed with tons of drawers.

    8. Go the super-cheap route with an air mattress and milk crates.

    9. Make a low-profile hanging hamper.

    10. Tuck your bed into an alcove.

    11. Make one wall a focal point with removable wallpaper.

    12. Suspended tables can create an illusion of space.

    13. Desks and dressers can also float.

    14. Hide a shelf behind your bed.

    15. Turn old drawers into stackable shelves.

    16. You can skip the headboard in favor of a few inches of more floorspace.

    17. Or build a cushy headboard that hangs on the wall.

    18. If you don't have a closet, offset your bed from the wall and create a closet behind it.

    19. Use every corner of space.

    20. Shelves count too.

    21. More corner tricks: Hang some hangers.

    22. Cover your windows with frosty film.

    23. Looking for color? Use paper instead.

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