space planning
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: University Loft Makes Better-Built Student Beds
College students across America and around the world have plenty on their minds and might not always sleep soundly or as much as they should. But with a top-quality solid wood bed from University Loft beneath them, they should have one less thing to worry about and more easily enjoy sweet dreams. Here’s why: University [...]
Posters on the Dorm Room Wall? University Loft Has Outlasted Them All.
This is just a guess, but I’ll bet at least 3 out of 10 college males in 1976 had a dorm room wall adorned by that famous poster of Farrah Fawcett in the red swimsuit. The poster was so popular (the biggest seller of all time) and so iconic that Farrah’s swimsuit was added to [...]
Lofty Heights: University Loft Climbs the Ranks of the FDM 300
We’ve done it again! University Loft Company has once again risen in the ranks of the FDM 300, an annual listing of North America’s leading manufacturers of furniture, cabinets, fixtures and millwork by the editors of CabinetMaker+FDM. Among the 300 listed industry leaders, University Loft Company has risen for the fifth consecutive year. After ranking [...]
Student Residence Wisdom from the Chief Housing Officer Institute
As I write this, the Chief Housing Officer Institute at the Emory University Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia is in full swing and generating lots of enthusiastic chatter on the Twitter backchannel and beyond via hashtag #CHOI12. If you know Twitter, you know that hashtags are a way for a diverse chorus of voices to [...]
If University Loft Student Furniture Were a Car, What Kind Would It Be?
Ever ask yourself these kinds of questions? By assigning characteristics from one type of product (or species, for that matter) to another, you can gain some interesting insights into the first subject. It’s an interesting exercise, so let’s take a look at what kind of car University Loft furniture for student housing might be: Crafted [...]
Have a Student Furniture Buying Decision to Make? Go With a Proven Winner: University Loft
Near the end of April each year, NFL teams have big decisions to make. They have to evaluate the college players available and choose the right ones to make their teams even better. Likewise, if you are a university housing furniture buyer, Directors of Residence Life, Director of Purchasing or Director of Facilities, the student housing [...]
Art of the Matter: Accessorizing the Student Residence Begins with Great Furniture From University Loft
When I was in college, the most common item in my dorm room was the milk crate. It served as table, chair, storage unit, and even as a stand to elevate our student apartment-sized refrigerator. While milk crates might remain a staple of dorm room and residence hall room design and décor, today’s college and [...]
Ten Personal Observations, Mystifying Questions and Surprising Revelations About University Loft Furniture
1. Looking back, my college days were among the best times of my life (but they would have been way better if I’d had University Loft student furniture in my dorm room). 2. If University Loft’s solid wood modular student furniture had been in my residence hall, I might have stayed at that college longer. [...]
What’s the Word for Fear of Choosing the Wrong Student Furniture?
Did you know that there’s an actual term for the fear of long words? Ironically, it’s this: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Say that three times fast. Or not. There are lots of terms that denote one kind of fear or another. You probably recognize claustrophobia (fear of being closed in or confined in a tight space), acrophobia (fear [...]
Looking Forward to Quality Time with University Loft Student Furniture
It’s been quite the early spring around here. Downright summer-like. Most years, we have to wait a bit longer for the first signs of spring: flowers in bloom, the smell of fresh-cut grass, young people playing basketball in the park. But with the early onset of these signs of the season, and with our normal [...]
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