Furniture

a comfortable student room with desk, chair, bed, and drawers

Residence and Scholarship Halls

All residence and scholarship hall rooms and suites are furnished with a bed, bed rail, mattress, desk and chair, dresser, and closet for each resident. The head and foot of the beds serve as a built-in ladder. Window blinds are provided.

All mattresses in residence and scholarship halls are extra long twin (36" x 80") except Sellards. Sellards has standard twin size mattresses (36" x 75").

Buildings with suites (Downs, Ellsworth, Lewis, Oswald, Self, Templin) come furnished with living room furniture. 

Apartments

Stouffer Place

All units in Stouffer Place are fully furnished, including living room furniture, a dishwasher, clothes washer, and clothes dryer.

2-bedroom apartments are furnished with a loveseat, accent chair, coffee table, end table, entertainment stand, and two bar stools.

4-bedroom apartments are furnished with a couch, two accent chairs, coffee table, two end tables, entertainment stand, and four bar stools.

Stouffer Place South: These apartments have private bedrooms and bathrooms. They have double beds which need full-size linens. These bedrooms also contain a dresser, desk, chair, and window blinds.

Stouffer Place North: In the freshman apartment community, four residents share bedrooms. Each two-person room includes a shared bath, shared closet, and shared bedroom with two lofted extra-long twin beds, two desks, two desk chairs, and two dressers. The remaining two residents have private bedrooms and bathrooms with a double bed, bath, closet, desk, desk chair, and dresser.

Jayhawker Towers

Most of the mattresses in Jayhawker Towers are extra-long twins (36” x 80”). The 2-person apartments in Towers A&D contain full-size beds (54” x 74”).

Bedroom furniture in Jayhawker Towers includes window blinds, closet, a bed, a desk and chair and dresser space for each resident. Living rooms in Jayhawker Towers are not furnished.

McCarthy Hall

Mattresses in McCarthy Hall are queen-sized (60” x 80”). Bedroom furniture includes window blinds, closet, a bed, a desk, desk chair, and drawer space for each resident. Living rooms in McCarthy Hall are not furnished.

Bed Configurations

Residents may submit a request to have their bed configured prior to move-in. Requests must be submitted by Friday, August 2, 2024, at 5pm. Requests must be submitted through the housing portal, requests e-mailed to Housing & Residence Life cannot be fulfilled. Due to furniture, room layouts, and space, configuration options are specific by room type. If a configuration option is not listed for your room type, it is not an available option prior to move-in.

Housing & Residence Life will make every effort to fulfill your request. Due to constraints of time, facilities, date of request, and staffing, your request may not be able to be completed prior to move-in. Once you have moved in, a request can be submitted to adjust the configuration of your bed.

 Approximate Bed Heights:

  • Lofted bed: 60"
  • Mid-lofted bed: 32"
  • Standard bed: 28"
  • Bunked beds: 28” (lower bed) 60" (top bed)

Residents can request an adjustment to their bed height after move-in, you can submit a service request with facility services. Requests submitted prior to move-in cannot be fulfilled and will be cancelled. Once you submit a request, use masking tape to mark the bed and the height you are requesting.

Exceptions:

  • Most Hawker, HERE, Stouffer Place, and McCarthy beds cannot not bunked or lofted. 
  • Lewis Hall and Templin Hall beds are bunked. They can be un-bunked once students move in and all roommates agree to the configuration, but not lofted. Un-bunked beds - only in Lewis or Templin - could accommodate bed risers of no more than five inches.
  • Scholarship hall beds have set configurations based on the available space in the room and type of bed. Any adjustments, if available, can be requested once students move in and all roommates agree to the configuration.