My dorm room…
So I arrived at school expecting to set up my room in about the same way as I had the year before. My roommate and I would have our beds set up in a Captain’s bed style on opposite sides of the room along the shorter wall, with our desks along the longer wall and the refridgerator and microwave in the middle of the longer wall between ours desks.
As I walked into my room on the first day, my first thought was that it felt somewhat smaller than it should have been. I soon discovered that this was because it actually was smaller, as the school had, without informing us, shortened the shorter wall by about 6 inches, supposedly to earthquake-proof the dormitory.
These are pictures of my suitemates’ room, which is set up like I was going to.
The bed is set up in a Captain's style, with the drawers and bookshelf underneath.
The two desks are along the longer wall, with the fridge between the desks.
As a result of these changes, one of the beds no longer fit along the shorter wall (the side with the door), and nothing worked anymore! All my plans had been ruined! After a quick scramble to find an acceptable room design, we decided upon this design (I would try to describe it but pictures would work better I think):
The two beds are lofted and closer together. Mine is along the far side of the room, and Patrick's is in the middle of the room.
The desks and drawers are under the beds, with our work areas in the room between the beds.
A lounge area is set up with a sofa, bean bag sofa, fridge, TV, and video games.
To achieve this setup, I just bought the sofa, and had the bean bag sofa donated to me from my friend. The leather sofa chair I used to have is now in the courtyard outside my room. The only drawback is that our beds are now lofted and relatively close to each other, instead of on opposite sides of the room. This hangout area is pretty sweet though. Fair trade.