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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

Westgate Apartments (Graduate/Family)room 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.

  • 1-Bedroom Family Apartment · 30 × 16 ft
  • 2-Bedroom Family Apartment · 32.5 × 20 ft
  • Twin XL beds

Floor plans · both rooms at the same scale

Two room types,drawn to scale.

  • 1-Bedroom Family Apartment · Sleeps 2

    30 × 16 ft

    480 sq ft · Twin XL

    Plan this room
    30 ft16 ftBEDBEDDRESSERDRESSERDESKDESK
    Pieces placed where a typical layout puts them1 square = 1 ft
  • 2-Bedroom Family Apartment · Sleeps 2

    32.5 × 20 ft

    650 sq ft · Twin XL

    Plan this room
    32.5 ft20 ftBEDBEDDRESSERDRESSERDESKDESK
    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′
  • Dresser2.5′ × 2′
  • Desk3.5′ × 2′
  • Desk chair1.5′ × 1.5′

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.

  • 1-Bedroom Family Apartment · 480 sq ft71 sq ft of standard furnitureabout 409 sq ft open
  • 2-Bedroom Family Apartment · 650 sq ft71 sq ft of standard furnitureabout 579 sq ft open

Westgate Apartments (Graduate/Family),furnished.

Measurements as published for this building. How we measure