The school year has pressed fresh with a lot of new books, uniforms and students leave the nest for the first time, arrived to find life dorm. Home Depot wanted to facilitate this transition presented for a student or in a competition on the blog Damask & Lace make it a few weeks ago. Our winner, Isabelle Vermette, a girl of 17, Photography student at CEGEP du Vieux Montreal, was very excited to see us arrive measuring tape and camera in hand. With a budget of $ 500 gift card, began our work. A multi-family house, dressed all in gray, is what we have found. How to a little bit of youth and happiness in this setting inject more institutional? We started painting. "As long as we do repaint before you go," was the phrase that I had heard, to run out and buy two liters of colored paint. A turquoise (Behr: Lagoon) for the living room and office, and a pink old exclusively for Home Depot Martha Stewart Collection for the bedroom. To complete the look of the living room and the office, we have a large amount of small accessories and decorative pillows. Lime green is very often early to coordinate with the color turquoise. Now I have decided to do things differently and to go with yellow accents instead. Alive and vibrant, the color is a perfect addition to our assortment of blue sea. Cabinet magazines and put the recycling of his office, we bought small containers of turquoise fabric. At each $ 13.95 price they are both practical and affordable. For its small dining area, we dressed the chairs with cushions and bought a beautiful orchid and its pot cover with our Gift Card. Isabelle, proud and smiling, we have already said, her friends look forward to in his little nest. In the office sector, we have tried to make the space functional and beautiful work at a time. The work lamp nickel finish ($ 79.99) was the element we needed to work surface otherwise filled with USB, Internet, printer, cable, adjust charging iPod touch and camera. A touch to the look "vintage" in a "high-tech" environment! This adventure was as good as for the young woman who welcomed us at home for me. I think we were all really surprised at the result more than convincing. The moral of this story? No matter the budget you have, there is way to decorate tastefully, and the smile on the face of Isabelle has filled me with happiness. Good luck young photographer, the world is yours!