We wanted to make sure that every resident who moved in benefited. So we did the entire complex. Everyone who lives on campus now has our new furniture. We don't have any of the metal furniture or wood veneer furniture that the majority of the other universities have. We have wood furniture that's loft-style.
Students can move the furniture around in a number of configurations in their rooms.
Since we're not in an earthquake area, we don't have to bolt everything to the floor, so it gives them a lot of flexibility. In response to what students were telling us, we wanted them to have a living room, a bathroom, and from one to three bedrooms. There can be from two to six people living in a suite. In order to accomplish that, since the community-style halls were set up with an interior hallway for access to the room, the concept for the suites was to have balcony access and cut doors into the brick walls for every single suite. That provides access to the living rooms.