<p>Does Duke provide the beds we sleep in at the dorms, or at least the frame, or do we need to buy everything for the beds?</p>
<p>They supply the frame and the mattress. You supply the linens (extra long).</p>
<p>Is every mattress twin size?</p>
<p>Yes .</p>
<p>if u want ur own mattress are u allowed to bring your own?</p>
<p>actually, at Duke students sleep on the bare concrete floor and aren't even allowed sleeping bags, much less having something like a PROVIDED BED</p>
<p>You can bring your own mattress - I guess you could put it on top of the mattress they give you? Otherwise you would be responsible for storing the mattress that Duke provides.</p>
<p>I've heard of girls bringing featherbeds to put on top of the mattress.</p>
<p>I am thinking there may be some statement that you can't remove the mattress but alex is a senior so knows best. We spent a chunk of change buying the higher quality off brand Tempurpedic type 2 inch mattress pads available at Bed Bath and Beyond, SAMs, Target etc. They are much better than egg crates, won't slip around, retain their shape and add a comfy dimension to the standard college mattresses. Keep in mind that stores stock a lot of XLongs in July August but that size is available on the websites too.</p>
<p>You may most certainly do whatever you like with the furniture, so long as you put it back at the end.</p>
<p>Some of my friends remove all furniture from the room, put it in storage for a year, and put all of their own things in there. (This is especially true of desks, less common with beds.)</p>
<p>wow..didn't realize that removing their standard furniture was an option. Will Duke provide storage space or do you have to rent the space privately out of pocket?</p>
<p>You would definitely be renting the space yourself. It's not an often-chosen option, probably for that reason.</p>
<p>ahh..thanks. Peeked in many freshman rooms and didn't see anyone with anything but standard desks and beds but did see lots of lofts and futons and we ended up investing in one. Some freshman dorms have great huge walk in closets. Not my kid's. But some!
I really have to add that we love East Campus and think it adds a lot to the Duke experience in terms of bonding and offers basically attractive and traditional dorms that have some character and feel pretty homey. So many great schools have only concrete block newer high rise dorms to offer. I really like Scale of the place and the fact that most dorms don't have many floors and that students tended to feel loyal to their first dorm on East. When we were visiting last year, we were turned off by the bus ride and wondered about this split campus thing, but it works. Can be inconvenient when you are in a hurry though to get to West.</p>
<p>On a scale of 1-10, 10 being as hard as the floor, how firm are the mattress provided by Duke? I normally sleep on very firm mattress so that's why i'm curious.</p>
<p>You'll need to define 1.</p>
<p>is it necessary to order sheets from that new jersey based company we received info from?</p>
<p>Yea, I was wondering about that too: was that advertisement we got from that company a gimick or do we really need to?</p>
<p>You definitely don't have to - just make sure that the sheets you do get are twin XL. It would really suck to show up on the first day and have sheets that don't fit your bed. I got a really cute set of sheets from PB Teen, actually - pink and green plaid (sorta girly, so sorry if you're a guy asking this). BB&B also tends to carry twin xl, and I think that urban outfitters does too.</p>
<p>yea, pink wont fly for me lol, so as long as i find Twin XL sheets i'll be fine, thanks cuz that company was sorta pricey</p>
<p>okay then, 10 being as hard as the floor and 1 being as soggy and floppy as a half empty water bed, how firm are the mattresses provided by Duke?</p>
<p>I found the beds quite comfy when I visited</p>