National and international students form a significant part of temporary dwellers in cities with large universities. The everyday practices and materialities of student homemaking can reveal a great deal about questions of temporary citizenship, belonging, and homing. This intervention draws on discourses around everyday life, particularly ‘art of living’ (art de vivre), ‘art of doing’ (art de faire), and ‘infra-ordinary’ (l’infra-ordinaire’), along with Georges Perec’s most celebrated novel ‘Life A User’s Manual’ (La vie mode d’emploi) to frame and introduce an experimental empirical study on student bedrooms in Copenhagen and Bologna. Based on the premise that home and homemaking processes are not fixed in time and space, but are fluid, fragmentary, and stretched across a multitude of scales, students’ temporary bedrooms are explored as crucial nodes within their networks of home and belonging.