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This is not very realistic. Most dorm rooms have furniture in them already. Why would anyone blow hundreds of dollars at IKEA to replace it? That also looks kind of big for a dorm room. That would've been a double room at my alma mater.

Got a great laugh out of the Mickey Mouse phone

Yeah, who are these people with these giant dorm rooms!? I could touch both walls while standing in the middle. And my roomate and I literally lived on top of each other.

Agreed, totally NOT realistic...where is the crappy bunk beds and creepy, sex crazed roommate, and communal nasty shower!

glad others thought the same thing as i did. All those college commercials are the same way with the kid in his giant dorm room, yeah right... Ours had cinder block walls.

Plus you would have to be pretty creative to hang a lighting fixture in a dorm room like that. Since you would have to attach it to the ceiling, and the walls, in search of a plug.

what's the the 3 golf clubs against the cabinet too.

Yeah I had my own dorm room all through collage, and I can tell you it looked nothing like this. While I could not touch both walls at the same time, It was pretty close to that cramp, and it was all furnished. There was not room for a standing lamp, let alone anything else.

IKEA Chic - Isn't that an oxymoron?

And as others have said: This is like no dorm room that I ever occupied - They're typically cinderblock cubes w/ industrial carpet or asbestos tile floors, not high-ceilinged spaces w/ angled walls, deep windowsills and crown-moulding.

First of all: how dare IKEA steal my dorm color scheme. Second: not practical in the least for a dorm; an off-campus apartment maybe, but not a university dorm.

If I remember my mindset from my dorm days this would make no sense 'Why spend money on furniture when you can buy beer?'

My dorm things are red, black and white as well! I chose everything in my pre-design love days, on a quick afternoon trip to Ikea the day before classes began--and luckily I'm still very happy with everything.

However, my dorm room looks NOTHING like this. I go to school in a city where $1100/month gets you half of a 16'x10' room, complete with cinderblock walls, stained carpet, and cruise ship-like built ins.

These images of palatial dorm suites are getting really old. Actually, it's probably the marketing team that's getting too old- perhaps they should tour a few real dorm rooms. I'm guessing they wouldn't feel so confident about decorating the cinderblock prison cells that I lived in.

I've been to dorm rooms in Sweden and they're relatively large compared to NA standards, about 300sqf. They're like studio apartments and usually new with nice kitchens incl. etc...

Oh yeah and no one shares!

I've visited some dorms in Sweden and yes, they are this big, they're like studio apartments about 250-300sqf! with kitchens etc... oh yeah and they get paid monthly to go to school!

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I used to work in a dorm building. Not only are the size and new furniture impractical, but most dorms will not let you paint, change light fixtures, or hang anything on the wall. And even if you ignore the rules, you will end up with a hefty fine.

Any dorm room neat enough for guests to sit down and doesn't smell like vomit is a wild success in my book.

My freshman dorm room was small and made out of cinder blocks, but my sister ended up in a nice apartment-style "dorm"... Some of the newer buildings are very nice.

i had a pretty big dorm room (used to be a very tiny double turned single). i could fit an extra chair and a sofa... however, who in their right mind would buy an entire set of new furniture for a dorm room...my dorm room, everything was bolted to the walls. and the newer apartment style rooms were way smaller but actually had nice ikea-style furniture that wasnt bolted. and where would you put the furniture it came with since they have to be there when you move out? pay for storage?