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Dorm decor: Finesse new digs to create a warm, comfortable spot away from home (The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.)

A box brimming with favorite photographs will travel with Grace Duray, 18, when she moves across the country next month to start classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The 2007 Tumwater High School graduate also will bring picture frames and a bulletin board she’ll use to make an unfamiliar dorm room feel like home. But Duray decided against taking along many other South Sound mementos in part because she knows her living quarters will be small. Plus, traveling with extra luggage isn’t any fun.