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A white clay model of a furnished dorm room with two beds, two desks and dressers, its walls edged in blue.

MIT · Residence hall · 2 room types

McCormick Hallroom dimensions.

2 room types at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, 2 with dimensions published by the university. Use them to plan the room to scale before move-in.

  • Tower Single Room · 11 × 9.5 ft
  • Corner Double Room · 15.5 × 13 ft
  • Twin XL beds
Plan your McCormick Hall roomSee both rooms

Floor plans · both rooms at the same scale

Two room types,drawn to scale.

  • Tower Single Room · Sleeps 1

    11 × 9.5 ft

    104 sq ft · Twin XL

    Plan this room
    11 ft9.5 ftBEDDESKDRESSER
    Pieces placed where a typical layout puts them1 square = 1 ft

  • Corner Double Room · Sleeps 2

    15.5 × 13 ft

    202 sq ft · Twin XL

    Plan this room
    15.5 ft13 ftBEDBEDDESKDESKDRESSERDRESSER
    Pieces placed where a typical layout puts them1 square = 1 ft

Standard furniture footprints

What's alreadyin the room.

  • Bed · Twin XL3.17′ × 6.67′
  • Desk3.5′ × 2′
  • Desk chair1.5′ × 1.5′
  • Dresser2.5′ × 2′

The built-in pieces the layouts plan around, at the sizes we use for fit checks. All drawn at the same scale · 20 px per ft

Open floor,once it's all in.

Our estimate from the footprints above, one of each piece per person. For most furnished singles and doubles, a 5 × 7 rug fits the open floor better than a larger size.

  • Tower Single Room · 104 sq ft35 sq ft of standard furnitureabout 69 sq ft open
  • Corner Double Room · 202 sq ft71 sq ft of standard furnitureabout 131 sq ft open

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McCormick Hall,furnished.

Measurements as published for this building. How we measure

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