By Kati Strong, Academic Coordinator CLE Austin

We took a short survey of a handful of our students and asked them how they decorate and add those touches of personality and comfort to make their apartments a home. These are their responses and some pictures of the very personalized abodes of some of our students.

Christos P.

    Cristos P - CLE Austin - dining room

  • I like to clean my whole apartment once a week so that it doesn’t build up.
  • I inspire to have people over so I like to keep it clean.
  • I see how hard my mom works to keep her place clean and I don’t want to be beat by my own mom in cleaning!

Kirby G.

  • Make it similar to home but not exactly. Try to make it as similar as you can by placing pictures of pets and family. All the Star Wars knick-knacks and mementos make it mine.
Kirby G. - CLE Austin - Star Wars

Hunter S.

  • I like to make my apartment feel like home by using all of my bedroom stuff from home in my apartment. I love sports so everything I have to decorate with is sports, sports, sports.
Hunter S. - CLE Austin

Zach R.

  • Take good care of it, add a couple of trinkets here and there. Bring stuff from my parents’ home to make it feel like home. I’ve added posters and things that I like.
Zach R. - CLE Austin apartment home