“I believe that interior design should be a journey of discovery ... “It looks cheap and like a college dorm.” While not every home has a gorgeous view—there’s still never an excuse ...

At the University of Mississippi, where instate tuition is $9,400 annually, freshman Lesley Lachman partnered with an interior design company to create a stylish, modern dorm room for $3,000.

The Dormitory of Chu Kochen College is an interior renovation project of an existing dormitory building at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Originally the building was exclusively used for bedrooms.