I know quite a few people dropping their kids off at college for the first time and they are all posting dorm room pictures and it’s strangely soothing to see that dorms and dorm furniture have not changed at all since I graduated almost 30 years ago.
Yeah… go look up Kentucky’s dorms. They are not the dorms of the past.
I think newer residence halls have different layouts etc (still the same oak furniture though) but a lot of the fancy rooms you see online are parents going overboard with decorating and just eating the damage fees, or so I have been told.
My employer (big state university) has some newer halls with suites and private bathrooms but also plenty of the classic style.
None of the dorms at UK are more than 15 years old. They entered into a partnership back in 2010 to build all new dorms. They are INSANE.
Think granite countertops, mostly suite style, no sharing bathrooms on one floor.
Cinder block walls were the first thing I thought of
I was just thinking that-so many cinder block walls!
Oak lofted beds/bookshelves/desks!
This is good to hear because I thought things had changed a LOT based on the photos of those southern dorms all decorated. We had cinder block walls, a lofted bed and hardly room for a mini fridge.
Between my two, all their dorms have been very old-school. Newly built dorms definitely are a little nicer, but most of those super fancy dorms you see pics of the parents have moved or covered up the standard-issue furniture.
I love it. Living with some cinder block walls is a rite of passage 😂
We had cinder block walls with, like, a 3x3 foot square pre-installed poster board area above each bed that you could decorate and affix things using push pins.
That was the standard at my uni. But my dorm was brand new and had drywall. So fancy! By the end of the year there were so many holes in marks all over the walls. The cinder blocks were classic for a reason.