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College Dorm Question

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Juice Box

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Ok....so im going to UIUC (UofI Urbana Champaign) and my roomate and I are trying to figure out how to setup the room. UIUC has crap options in terms of beds so we are not sure.
Here is what we can do:

1. Bunked (bottom bed has 2 large drawers underneath it
2. Bi-level Un-bunked (One bed is abour 4 feet off the ground, and the other is on the ground with those same 2 drawers underneath it.
3. Double-lower: Two On-The-Floor beds, one of which has drawers underneath it

We'd like to stay away from 1 if at all possible (top bunk blows and you cant really sit on the bottom bunk) and #3 just seems like a waste of space. Is there any way we could take the lower bunk from #2 and raise it up to the height of the other one? That way we could put stuff (fridge, microwave, dresser) underneath the beds. The room is pretty small IIRC but I think there is room for everything. We each have our own locking closet thats about 3' x 3'. Any ideas/suggestions from AT?
 
Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: bonkers325
make a loft so you have space underneath the bed to chill
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they don't allow lofting 🙁
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put both beds togethor and decide whether you want to be the big spoon or the little spoon :laugh:

if you're not planning on having girls over, the bunk beds would be the way to go. for space, #2 is best. #3 sounds like a run of the mill dorm setup
 
I go to U of I, and I lived in Allen Hall during my freshmen year...

To be Honest, 2nd option seems the best because you can have some room underneath the higher bed

Bunked bed gets you more room (space is very limited, depending on which residence hall you are in, but roughly they are the same).

PM me if you have ?

 
Loft it...not even kidding you will appreciate the space.

Alternatively, get a bunk bed and raise the 2nd bunk if you need more space (we have really tall ceilings so that was never a problem).

If not, cinder blocks are your friend. Go to some construction site (preferably on campus), steal 4, and you're in business.
 
yeah if you can't full loft (like high enough to put a desk underneath or something) you should be allowed to at least loft the bed enough to fit your fridge and microwave and stuff like that under neath there...
 
lift the beds up as high as you can if you're concerned about space. i saw this in another set of dorms at UCLA and it wasn't that bad. of course i'm short so i spent forever jumping up and down off of people's beds, trying to sit on them.
 
ok heres what you do, I faced this same delema my junior year in school because the room we were in didnt have 2 obvious places to put beds as the previous rooms did, for this to work one of you had to not mind more or less sleeping on the floor, you put one bed up as high as itll go by itsel, normally like 3-4 feet you then place the matrice from bed #2 on the floor directly beneth it, and just put the other bed frame in storage or whatever

heres a pic of what i mean, its a bad pic with my wasted friend in it, but you shoudl get the idea i could have sworn i had a normal pic of this

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/P3280007.JPG

we put the couch in front of it and my roomate Will called it his "Cave"
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
ok heres what you do, I faced this same delema my junior year in school because the room we were in didnt have 2 obvious places to put beds as the previous rooms did, for this to work one of you had to not mind more or less sleeping on the floor, you put one bed up as high as itll go by itsel, normally like 3-4 feet you then place the matrice from bed #2 on the floor directly beneth it, and just put the other bed frame in storage or whatever

heres a pic of what i mean, its a bad pic with my wasted friend in it, but you shoudl get the idea i could have sworn i had a normal pic of this

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/P3280007.JPG

we put the couch in front of it and my roomate Will called it his "Cave"
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heh pure college life....picture is missing duct tape 😛
 
Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: Anubis
ok heres what you do, I faced this same delema my junior year in school because the room we were in didnt have 2 obvious places to put beds as the previous rooms did, for this to work one of you had to not mind more or less sleeping on the floor, you put one bed up as high as itll go by itsel, normally like 3-4 feet you then place the matrice from bed #2 on the floor directly beneth it, and just put the other bed frame in storage or whatever

heres a pic of what i mean, its a bad pic with my wasted friend in it, but you shoudl get the idea i could have sworn i had a normal pic of this

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/P3280007.JPG

we put the couch in front of it and my roomate Will called it his "Cave"
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heh pure college life....picture is missing duct tape 😛
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there was about 3 rolls of the stuff in that room, dont know how i missed it in that pic
 
Last year my roomate and I had option 3. It worked out fine. It depends on the layout of the room. This year, with the layout of the room I'm going to be in, I might actually go with a bunked bed. My friend who had his beds bunked last year enjoyed being on the top bunk.
 
rofl.

You wouldn't happen to be rooming in Trelease 0409, would you?

If so.. hello there mr. roommate 😛

I'm actually open to suggestions as well so .. gogo ATOT.

(bored at work)
 
Originally posted by: timosyy
rofl.

You wouldn't happen to be rooming in Trelease 0409, would you?

If so.. hello there mr. roommate 😛

I'm actually open to suggestions as well so .. gogo ATOT.

(bored at work)
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nope. Hopkins 40x
 
those who say option 3...I honestly don't understand why. Why would you even consider that when you can get one bed raised a few feet and have ALL that room underneat it for more stuff?
 
Originally posted by: freesia39
lift the beds up as high as you can if you're concerned about space. i saw this in another set of dorms at UCLA and it wasn't that bad. of course i'm short so i spent forever jumping up and down off of people's beds, trying to sit on them.
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UCLA dorms are just so small...
 
Originally posted by: dds14u
Originally posted by: freesia39
lift the beds up as high as you can if you're concerned about space. i saw this in another set of dorms at UCLA and it wasn't that bad. of course i'm short so i spent forever jumping up and down off of people's beds, trying to sit on them.
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UCLA dorms are just so small...
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:brokenheart:
 
I spent 12 consecutive months of my life living in and out of the dorms, fleeing to the carribean for any dorm-closure longer than a weekend. It sucked and I ended up doing 100% outdoor sex rather than deal with getting a girl into the bunks....

I'd do the same again if I were you. Just have your sex outside and bunk the beds for maximum working/living space
 
Originally posted by: bonkers325
make a loft so you have space underneath the bed to chill
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Dude a desk the size of the bed is awesome. I wish I had that desk in my dorm last year. I got the small@$$ desk. Pretty soon I had so many papers I couldn't do homework on it at all unless I took my laptop off. Later when my laptop crashed, I was dealing with a fat 17" CRT on my desk that gave me absolutely no space.

Have as much open space as you can. Crowd stuff into the corners and have a center area where people can chill like our room last year where it was party mania =)
 
Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: dds14u
Originally posted by: freesia39
lift the beds up as high as you can if you're concerned about space. i saw this in another set of dorms at UCLA and it wasn't that bad. of course i'm short so i spent forever jumping up and down off of people's beds, trying to sit on them.
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UCLA dorms are just so small...
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:brokenheart:
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Are they? Cal dorms (units 1 - 3) are even smaller. I see the triples in Dykstra at least dont have 2 desks crowded under the lofted bunk. Iono, my friends complain but when I show them Cal, they just shut up and understand that we have even worse conditions. Now where I lived.... muhahaha although it was far, we had the choice to put all 3 beds down cuz our rooms were like 18x18 monstrosities.

Hey and at least you guys don't have as many triples as we do and you're working towards 4 years guranteed housing.

We finally moved to 2 year guaranteed but it still sucks cuz we have so many triples here.
 
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