Student gets free room makeover
Kristina Peters/Activities Reporter
Issue date: 10/2/06 Section: News
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Block, sophomore early childhood education major, was Saturday night's winner of University Board's "Extreme EIU - Makeover Edition."
When Block's number was pulled from the raffle, she jumped up and down.
"I'm so excited. My room is so dull right now," she said moments after she won.
Block's room before Berger added her touch was not "pretty to look at," said her roommate Gina Lendi, sophomore elementary education major with a math concentration.
Berger has been redoing college dorm rooms for two years and before that she hosted the show "Fantasy Open House" on HGTV.
One item in the room that both Lendi and Block were not too fond of was a handmade poster from a fall retreat event.
Berger removed the poster and added what she describes as "colorforms that you played with as a kid."
The "colorforms" were in the shapes of squares and circles and in colors like orange, brown and purple and can be moved around without paint pealing off the walls.
"That's something I never would have thought of for a dorm room," Block said, who was speechless upon the reveal of her room.
Block sat down and talked to Berger Saturday after winning to go over what Block wanted in her room.
One thing that both Block wanted was a microwave; she just had no idea where to put it.
"Generally, people put their microwave on top of their fridge," Berger said.
However, in Block's case the TV was on top of the fridge so Berger bought the microwave and Sunday morning, when she begun work on the room, she found that the top of the dresser inside the closet was a good fit.
Berger purchased many plastic boxes to organize Block's closet and also to place dry foods in for underneath the bed.
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