Arranging the Furniture
Arranging the furniture in a college dorm room can be a complete mess. But if you can, it’s a lot easier to go in with a plan.
So as I got relatively bored the other night, I started to do just that. Opened up Photoshop and made myself a life size document (12.5′X17′) complete with life size furniture pieces in there. It might be a little crazy to do that, but it really cut down on the math needed to keep everything to scale. And trust me, it was bad enough having to convert all of the measurements to inches.
As of this writing, I’ve come with 9 sets of floor plans. But that number may have changed by the time you started to read this. Here are a few of my favorites.
I call this one ‘Weird Tetris Piece’ because it was the first one that I made where I noticed that the T shaped piece would fit in there really well.
The appeal of this arrangement is that it leaves plenty of space in the middle of the room to do things. Our big problem last year was a lack of floor space. But we’ve picked up 34 square feet in the new room this year because we get an extra foot in one direction and lose a part of the wall that jutted out a foot in the other direction.
This arrangement to the right is called ‘Middle Commons with Islands’ because we have that middle area open and the desks are acting much like kitchen islands.
The big appeal here is that we get to keep the desks close to the bed. For all of the pains that our arrangement last year caused, we did get really used to being able to get things onto and off of the desk without leaving the bed. With this second layout, we wouldn’t lose that feature.
If you’re going off to college this year, you should consider drawing out some possible arrangements before heading off to school. It’s a lot easier to move furniture around when you don’t have everything in the room yet. Just remember that your room might have some irregularities in it that could thwart your plans, so be prepared for a change. Also, don’t throw out an idea just because you don’t think it will work. You could be right, but that idea could be the springboard for something great.
Are there any other ideas you have that could work? Do you see something in my set of ideas that you could see yourself using? If so, please let me know in the comments below.
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