The room's pretty neat, but I'm having trouble understanding why a college student would put this much effort into something that needs to be torn down at the end of the year. I get the "because I can" hacker attitude, but as someone heading back to school tomorrow, I've got to say I would never put most of that stuff in my room. Hardwood flooring: who has the money to blow on that in college? It's one thing to optimize a room for comfort and utility. It's another to install unneeded gadgets.
Plenty of MIT people stay in the same room for 2-4 years. (usually freshmen were in one room sometimes with a roommate, then if you made compromises you could get a single for years 2 to n (n = 4 or 5 I guess)
It really depends on the specific dorm. IIRC you could easily have the same room for 4 years there, more easily than some other dorms. It (and Random where I stayed) tend to have more of a culture of making changes to the rooms and building - like making murals.
I was in the same dorm room from my sophomore year onward. Unfortunately we were required to clear everything out during the summer months, including any similar customizations we had made, otherwise I might have gone all out like this too. It's a great way to make a small room feel like home. Looks very efficiently laid out as well.
That... doesn't really apply to EC. When I was a freshmen I thought of it as the "pot and people naked at parties" dorm. Which was actually pretty unfair, and there's a lot of variation between the floors there.
My main concern would be the shear strength of the eye bolts used to connect to the threaded rod. I'd also put loctite on the nuts. God do those thing have a habit of wobbling loose on threaded rod.
Restored Herman Miller Eames lounge chair for reading, having guests over, etc. It might be the Plycraft version, I can't really tell.
it's a plycraft replica. they are easy to spot because the chair base only has 4 legs, while a genuine eames lounge chair sold by herman miller or vitra will have 5 legs on the chair and 4 on the ottoman.
Actually, he mentions the base was taken from another chair.
I found two Herman Miller Eames chairs being thrown away. The bases were missing, so I pulled two chrome chair bases off some old desk chairs and mounted one of the Eames chairs onto a base.
As awesome as that setup is, I can't imagine any college being okay with it. Holes in the wall? Glue? Custom flooring even. The amount of damage that all must have caused would give Resident Life an aneurism. Where I go, we have a $400 housing deposit each year that is only returned to us if we didn't cause damage to the room. And then we get fines on top of that if we did anything that would be costly to repair.
Very nice! I bet the room wasn't as expensive to put together as it looks. You can find small amounts of left over flooring & other materials on craigslist for cheap.
He mentioned that the floor was a "diarrhea brown", which I took to mean linoleum or an otherwise hard floor.
While there is nothing to stop you from installing a floating hardwood floor (typical installation is floor > thin foam pad for insulation > click together flooring) on top of carpet, and in lieu of a foam pad, the end result would likely be that the floor would feel "mushy" when walked on.
