My Inner Doug Wilson (of Trading Spaces fame)

I'm a fan of looking at things that inspire me, just take one look at my apartment. A camera has been an extension of my arm since I received my very first 35mm camera many Christmases ago. My photography skills have no doubt improved over the years. Now, I wield a Nikon N75 35mm SLR camera and a digital Nikon Coolpix S560.

I've always been a spatially orientated person, and my mom can attest to the multiple times she has heard bed frames scrape across the cement basement floor as I rearranged my bedroom for the upteenth time. When I was younger, the television would be stuck on TLC or Discovery's home improvement shows. Eventually, as cable added more channels to its repertoire, I watched HGTV and Food Network religiously. I would often flip between the two stations during commercials to see how Alton Brown made his next creation or how Genevieve Gorder was going to fix another home improvement disaster.

It's to no surprise then that I've been interested in the aesthetics of classroom design and the effects that certain designs can have upon the multiple students stepping through its doors. I've also been so interested in this subject that I based a major research paper on it in my Educational Psychology class. I'll for sure be using some of the sources I found during that project onto this blog. I was perusing theapple.monster.com's website and came across

20 Cheap Ways to Decorate Your Classroom.

The ninth idea was by far my favorite. It could be because I'm a sucker for Post Secret books, but it's also a good way to incorporate writing into the design.

9. A PostSecret-style project – My students came up with something like this on their own last year. It started as a couple of post-it notes anonymously detailing their feelings on the wall behind my desk. By the end of the year, it was a tremendous piece of art!