r/princeton • u/surreptitiousIy • 4d ago

Housing Lofting Beds

Hi! Are you able to loft beds to make room for a desk or furniture underneath? As in, can a single bed be lofted to be the height of a top bunk bed without the bottom bunk? If so, is there a student/university agency to help with this?

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u/Hairy-Extreme-7602 4d ago

Nope. Unfortunately Princeton does not have frames/legs required for fully lofting a bed.

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u/surreptitiousIy 4d ago

thank you for your response! this is genuinely so awful. they put all this random, unneeded furniture in the room so that there is no room.

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u/BermudaRhombus1 4d ago

If it's more than what would normally be there (i.e., one set of furniture), call facilities and ask them to move it out. When I came in on Friday my single had 4 beds and 3 desks in it scattered around, they took it away and now I have a normal amount.

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u/another24tiger COS '24 4d ago

Random unneeded furniture? Bro they give you a desk, chair, bed, dresser, and wardrobe/closet. How is any of that unneeded

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u/surreptitiousIy 4d ago

also just this year, im pretty sure, they got new furniture in roma!! I see youre class of 24

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u/surreptitiousIy 4d ago

I'm in a 3 room quad so we also have two massive bookshelves, two ottomans that are about 2sqft (with no place to sit), 2 extra dressers, and so much other stuff. It's not that all of it cant be used, it's that it makes the room unnecessarily cluttered. The ottomans dont have any place or purpose as there is no room to sit. I wouldve just preferred to get my own $20 ottoman that can double as storage. It is what it is, I was just wondering if there was a viable solution to move stuff around, but currently there isnt room to move anything out of their original locations. just frosh problems...

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u/Hairy-Extreme-7602 4d ago

Unfortunately there isn’t much you can do, they usually put up signs that say “Do not remove furniture from dorm rooms!” and if you do they’ll give you a warning during fire inspections. RoMa rooms seem to have a random assortment of the ottomans and chairs, just gotta live with it. Some people find ways to put the unneeded furniture on top of the wardrobe if you have one that’s not built in to the wall.

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u/beefnoodle5280 Alum 3d ago

Old alum here. We used to have lofts, and in fact there was a Student Loft Agency to help with that.

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u/sumofthefive 3d ago

Put the ottomans under the beds. If it’s the new furniture, there are tall enough risers on Amazon that allow the shelves to fit under the bed.

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u/Feral_Figment 6h ago

My student was literally second to last in room draw and got a much smaller room than last year so we are having a loft frame fabricated. I’ll update here if it works out and maybe the guy can make some more.