<p>Haha, everyone says the rooms are really big, and it looked like 90% of the rooms were regular, so I suppose that’s not a bad regular?</p>
<p>balch rooms tend to be bigger IMHO</p>
<p>yeah…plus singles just seem bigger because you don’t have to share the space with anyone</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone knows how high off the floor the beds are in Balch.</p>
<p>I am planning to get risers for sure, but want to make sure that the trunks I am buying to sent my Ds stuff in will fit under the bed with the risers.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>my bed happened to be raised maybe 4 or so feet off of the ground…being 5’1 i had to get a running start to get on it! and i still had bed risers</p>
<p>the other beds are maybe 2’ off of the ground (normal bed height i guess). with or without bed risers, the under the bed containers will fit under there</p>
<p>^ thanks for that info.</p>
<p>The distance is important because i’m not really referring to the typical underbed storage stuff. Rather I am talking about storage lockers like those made by Contico. They are about 13" high. none of the beds in our house are that high off the ground, so I was thinking they beds in Balch wouldn’t be that high either.</p>
<p>here are some of my pictures from freshman year:</p>
<p>[Pictures</a> by katherinepatrice - Photobucket](<a href=“Photo Storage”>Photo Storage)</p>
<p>when looking at the hall picture, know that there was a large closet on the left (to the right of the door if coming through the door), a wardrobe behind a door with a full length mirror, a bathroom with sink/toilet/shower/tub, and the bookcase on the right.</p>
<p>i miss that room…</p>
<p>Wow, looks amazing! What was your room number, if you don’t mind my asking?</p>
<p>it was 3469…and i don’t care, because i don’t live there anymore, haha.</p>
<p>seuferk</p>
<p>someone said the beds in Balch were like 2’ off the ground without risers. I noticed in your photos you have risers and they don’t seem that high. Am I imagining things?</p>
<p>it really depended on your room - my bed was really low to the ground, so I had to use risers to store stuff under it. My roommate’s bed was the same. My friend (who had a single on floor 4), had a bed that was like … far enough off the ground that even I (and I’m 5’11") had to jump to sit on it.</p>
<p>You can fill out a maintenance request and ask that your bed be raised. My daughter did this, and when she moved in her bed was already raised enough so that she could store boxes and other things underneath, but wasn’t so high that she had to “climb” into bed. (A little hop though!) You can find the maintenance request form on the housing site.</p>
<p>Also a thought…She purchased a full sized comforter/quilt, because it came down a little lower on the raised bed, and hid some of the “stuff” she stored there. (I think it looked much nicer that way) Also, it’s nice to get the larger size because if you move off campus for sophomore year and happen to get a place with a full size bed, you can use the same comforter and just get new sheets.</p>
<p>Can we bring our own bed risers, or is it a rule that maintenance has to do it for you?</p>
<p>we saw the maint. request page before, but we didn’t think we needed to do anything since i thought the beds were all at least 24" off the ground.</p>
<p>So, it sounds like there are standard height beds (would need risers), then you can have maint. add legs to make them 2’ or 4’ off the ground and then there is also lofting which is even higher. At least that seems like what I have heard expressed on this board.</p>
<p>As to the bedding. My D actually bought a queen size comforter with a duvet cover and then a queen quilt as well. She too was thinking that would be better for when she moves out of a dorm.</p>
<p>I second Countyangel’s question: can we raise our own beds, or does the maintenance staff have to do it for us? And also, do the different maintenance requests cost money? Or is it a complimentary service?</p>
<p>Maintenance requests do not cost money. I’m not exactly sure how to raise the beds, but it was nice to have it raised when we got there. As you are bringing all of your belongings up to your room, it fills up pretty quickly (until you have the chance to find a place for everything). I can’t imagine having to break out a tool kit and start taking the bed apart to make it higher during move-in. It was nice to be able to store things under the bed while organizing. If I remember correctly, the “base” of the bed, which holds the mattress, can be screwed into the headboard and footboard at different heights, and that is how the height of the bed is determined.</p>
<p>Queen/full comforters and quilts worked great with the raised bed, and now my daughter will use it for the full bed in her apartment next year. She had a quilt and a duvet cover, but she never needed to buy a comforter since it was always so warm in her room. The quilt and a blanket were plenty.</p>
<p>Actually, we used the bed risers we had purchased before getting to Ithaca to raise her desk, because she’s pretty tall and her legs didn’t fit under her desk with the desk chair provided.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Oh okay, that’s good to know. 
Just one more question about raising the bed, though. A little earlier in this thread people were talking about how high the beds are, and someone pointed out that while some beds are average height from the ground, others are already pretty tall. If it just so happens that your room has a bed that’s already 4’ from the floor and you send maintenance a request to raise it, will they really go and make it higher? Or is there a way to specify the height you want?</p>
<p>And thanks for all the information, JustAMom! It’s really helpful.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure, but I believe my daughter mentioned (on the maintenance request form) that she would like a certain amount of space under her bed. I think her bed was raised a little more than she requested, but it worked out perfectly. I think the beds can be set to one of two heights, so if you asked for it to be raised, it will be at a somewhat standard height for the raised beds. (I don’t think you’ll get a bed that’s 5 feet off the floor… at least not in Balch). When the bed is raised, the top of the mattress comes to just about the top of the headboard. When the mattress is at the lower setting, the headboard is higher than the top of the mattress by a foot or two.</p>
<p>Hope that clears things up a little! (And I didn’t confuse anyone even more!) :)</p>
<p>This may be a silly question, but is there hanging space in the closet? In all of the photos I’ve seen, there only seem to be drawers.</p>
<p>Yes, there is hanging space in most (if not all?) dorm closets</p>