{"id":6228,"date":"2012-09-05T06:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2012-09-05T06:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:15:55","slug":"from-usatoday-dorms-tranformed-designers-are-earning-extra-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/from-usatoday-dorms-tranformed-designers-are-earning-extra-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"(from USAToday)  &#8216;Dorms tranformed: Designers are earning extra credit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 When it comes to decorating their dorm rooms, some students aren&#8217;t even attempting to give it the old college try \u2014 they&#8217;re hiring the pros&#8230;Coeds and their parents are turning to interior designers to transform the traditional linoleum-and-cinderblock caves into spaces worthy of magazine spreads, complete with upholstered headboards, wallpaper and crystal chandeliers, for $90 to $175 an hour, plus the price of the posh paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen some residence hall rooms that look like they&#8217;re straight out of <em>Southern Living<\/em>,&#8221; says <a title=\"More news, photos about Auburn University\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/topic\/Auburn+University\">Auburn University<\/a> housing director Kim Trupp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE CLICK THE IMAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/home\/story\/2012-08-31\/dormitories-interior-designers-universities\/57561112\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6230\" title=\"dorms14-pg-horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms14-pg-horizontal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms14-pg-horizontal1.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms14-pg-horizontal1-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/home\/story\/2012-08-31\/dormitories-interior-designers-universities\/57561112\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6231\" title=\"dorms13-pg-horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms13-pg-horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms13-pg-horizontal.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dorms13-pg-horizontal-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/home\/story\/2012-08-31\/dormitories-interior-designers-universities\/57561112\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 When it comes to decorating their dorm rooms, some students aren&#8217;t even attempting to give it the old college try \u2014 they&#8217;re hiring the pros&#8230;Coeds and their parents are turning to interior designers to transform the traditional linoleum-and-cinderblock caves into spaces worthy of magazine spreads, complete with upholstered headboards, wallpaper and crystal chandeliers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}