<p>Do universities tend to have a set rule against replacing their dorm furniture? I'm probably getting a large single and I'd love to put their furniture in storage for the semester and put better furniture in its place.</p>
<p>Huge no-no at most schools - my daughter’s school does not allow any additional furniture of any kind (kids were told no to even little TV stands)</p>
<p>My school allows additional furniture, but you can’t take out the furniture you have. You generally will get serious fines for this. Plus, you’d have to put all the furniture back when you left for Thanksgiving break and such.</p>
<p>No, you’re not allowed to remove the furniture that’s already there. At my university, we’re not even allowed to remove extra lofting material that’s provided to us–we can give them out to other residents on our floor, but we can’t take them to the area service desk and tell them we don’t need it, because they don’t have space to put all the extra lofting materials from residents who don’t want to loft their beds, and at the end of the schoolyear, if we lent out lofting materials to floormates, we have to get those materials back.</p>
<p>Some of the dorms at my school allow putting stuff in storage (like lofting things if you don’t loft) or maybe chairs if you brought your own. They probably wouldn’t allow you putting everything in there. I haven’t heard of anybody bringing their own bed, some people bring an office chair, but they just keep the extra chair in there for extra seating. Bringing extra chairs is fine, plenty of people bring futons, couches, chairs, fridges, shelves, etc. Not all dorms have places to store things though. </p>
<p>Oh, and the storage was storage in the dorm, you are definitely not allowed to put it in private storage outside of the dorm.</p>
<p>My school only allows you to replace the school-provided desk chair. All the other furniture has to remain in the room (too much to store, I guess). You can add extra furniture, though, if you want–rugs, chairs, bookshelves, stands, etc. There’s no rule against that. You just have to keep the dresser, bed, and desk in the room.</p>
<p>you might be better served living off campus and using your own furniture in a rental property!</p>