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TITLE III GRANT
My Ideal Bedroom
Interdisciplinary Course Materials
Architectural Technology
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MT001 or MT003
Decimals, Fractions, and basic Geometry
My Ideal Bedroom
In this projects students will be expected to create their ideal
bedroom; select room dimensions, furniture, paint, trim, and
carpeting.
Mary Beth Orrange
Timothy Schnaufer, Architectural Technology
Fall 2009
Essential Question: How do you design a room?
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Introduction:
In this project you will create the ideal bedroom; you select the
room dimensions, the furniture, and determine how much paint, trim, and carpeting is necessary.
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Basic Directions: In this project you will find the area of a room, decide on windows.
following NYS Building Code requirements, select furniture and determine how that furniture
fits into the room based on scale drawings, and finally plan to finish it off with trim, paint, and
wallpaper.
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Things to Learn before Starting the Project: You will need to know the formulas for
area and perimeter of basic shapes, how to convert between fractions and decimals, conversion
factors between yards, feet, and inches; including square units. You will also need to understand
building requirements. You will need to use graph paper to construct a scale model for the room
and furniture.
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The Project Assignment: follows the grading section
F. and G. Student and Faculty Resources: Search the internet for free graph paper. Use a
search engine and enter the term “free graph paper.”
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Grading Rubric: 10% of the point value should be awarded for question 1, and 30% for
questions 2, 3, and 4.
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Name ________________________________________ Design Your Ideal Bedroom
1.
Determine the dimensions of your bedroom. Compute the area of each in square feet
before you decide which dimensions you will use. Convert from feet and inches to feet using
decimal numbers if necessary.
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9’ 6” x 17’3”
10’ 9” x 16’ 6”
11’ x 15’6”
12’ x 14’
Area = ____________
Area = ____________
Area = ____________
Area = ____________
In the following problems, use the dimensions that give you the largest bedroom. Your bedroom
dimensions are _________________________________
2.
Decide on windows. We will follow NYS Building Code requirements. The code
requires a certain percentage of natural light and ventilation based upon the floor area of
habitable space. The percentage for glass (light) is 8%, and the percentage for ventilation is 4%.
Determine your bedroom requirements based upon your choice of bedroom.
8% in decimal format is _______ The amount of glass required for your room is ___________.
Now we would choose a window or windows to meet those requirements. We will use double
hung windows, which if it meets the light requirements will meet the ventilation requirements.
Determine the size of the window(s) which will meet the area determined in the table.
Example: Area required is 12 square feet for natural light.
The window size could be a single window 4’ x 3’ or two windows @ 2’ x 3’ each.
Your area is _________.
How many windows ________?
What is the size of each window ___________?
3.
Pick out furniture. You need at least a bed and a desk. On the furniture checklist
sheet, check off what you would like to have in your bedroom. After you have checked off what
you want sketch out, on the grid paper provided, the room size, include the door and window(s).
The scale you will be using is ¼” = 1’-0”. This means that for every one box (quarter of an inch)
on the grid paper it represents one foot (12 inches). This is done so we can fit it on a piece of
paper. There are many free graph paper websites from which you may print graph paper.
Choose the paper with 1 cm dimensions.
Place cut-out furniture that you selected in the checklist and arrange it in your room. Submit your
graph paper and furniture pieces with your project.
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Does it all fit?
_________
Can you move around?
Is there enough clearance between furniture?
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_________
4.
Finish it off with trim, paint, and wallpaper.
In the chart below fill out the areas or linear feet and then figure out the quantities of material
required. Don’t forget that you have four walls, a door, probably a closet door, and at least one
window as determined above. You are going to paint the ceiling, paper the walls, and carpet the
floor. You need to trim around the doors and windows/
Given:
 the room height is 8’-0”
 door size is 3’ wide x 7’ tall
 carpet comes in 12’ wide rolls
 1 gallon of paint covers an area between 250 and 350 square feet
 1 roll of wall paper 36” wide x 32’ long
 Wood base comes in 8’ lengths
 Wood trim (door and window) comes in 8’ lengths
Surface
wall
ceiling
floor
base
door trim
window trim
Size
Area
Linear feet
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Quantity
3’ x 7’
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Area
384 sq. ft.
Linear feet
48 linear feet
144 sq. ft.
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--12 linear feet
48 linear feet
17 linear feet
14 linear feet
Quantity
4 rolls of wall paper or
2 gallons of paint
1 gallon of paint
12 linear feet of carpet
8 pieces of base
3 pieces of trim
2 pieces of trim
Note:
1) Door trim is only on 3 sides
2) Window trim is on all 4 sides
Example: for room size of 12’x12’
Surface
Size
8’ wall
8’x 12’
x 4 walls
ceiling
12’ x 12’
floor
12’ x 12’
base
12’ x 12’
door trim
3’ x 7’
window trim
4’ x 3’
Note:
In order to calculate the wall paper, you must determine 2 things:
1) How many lengths you can get out of a roll based upon your ceiling height.
2) How many roll widths of paper does it take to go around the perimeter of the room
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Checklist for Furniture
Beds (pick one)
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King size bed (6’-8” x 6’-0”)
Queen size bed (6’-8” x 5’-0”)
Double bed (6’-8” x 4’-6”)
Twin bed (6’-8” x 3’-3”)
Dresser (pick as many as you want)
 Tall chest (36” x 24”)
 Low chest with mirror on top (72” x 24”)
 Armoire (42” x 24”)
Desk and chair (pick one)
 Small (36” x 18”)
 Medium (48 x 18”)
 Large (60” x 30”)
Miscellaneous (pick as many as you want)
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Toy chest (60” X 30”)
Book shelf (small – 24” x 12”)
Book shelf (medium – 36” x 12”)
Book shelf (large – 48” x 12”)
13” TV (small – fits on top of dresser)
32” TV (medium – has own stand)
60” TV (large flat screen – has own stand)
Stereo (small boom box)
Stereo (medium sound system – 20” x 20” plus speakers)
Stereo (large sound system – 20” x 60” plus speakers)
Lounge chair (32” x 30”)
Couch (folds out to a bed 80” x 31”)
Futon (folds out to bed 72” x 38”)
Night stand with lamp and clock (18” x 18”)
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