Erie Community College
Title III Grant
My Ideal Bedroom
Interdisciplinary Course Materials
Architectural Technology
Course: MT001 or MT003
Course Outline Topic: Decimals, Fractions, and basic Geometry
Project Title: My Ideal Bedroom
Project description: In this projects students will be expected to create their ideal bedroom; select room dimensions, furniture, paint, trim, and carpeting.
Author: Mary Beth Orrange
Curriculum Expert: Timothy Schnaufer, Architectural Technology
Semester Created: Fall 2009
A. Essential Question: How do you design a room?
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. 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.
E. 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.”
H. Grading Rubric: 10% of the point value should be awarded for question 1, and 30% for questions 2, 3, and 4.
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.
a. 9’ 6” x 17’3” Area = ______
b. 10’ 9” x 16’ 6” Area = ______
c. 11’ x 15’6” Area = ______
d. 12’ x 14’ 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.
Does it all fit? ______Can you move around? ______
Is there enough clearance between furniture? ______
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 / Size / Area / Linear feet / Quantitywall / ---
ceiling / ---
floor / ---
base / ---
door trim / 3’ x 7’ / ---
window 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 / Area / Linear feet / Quantity8’ wall / 8’x 12’
x 4 walls / 384 sq. ft. / 48 linear feet / 4 rolls of wall paper or
2 gallons of paint
ceiling / 12’ x 12’ / 144 sq. ft. / --- / 1 gallon of paint
floor / 12’ x 12’ / --- / 12 linear feet / 12 linear feet of carpet
base / 12’ x 12’ / --- / 48 linear feet / 8 pieces of base
door trim / 3’ x 7’ / --- / 17 linear feet / 3 pieces of trim
window trim / 4’ x 3’ / --- / 14 linear feet / 2 pieces of trim
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
Checklist for Furniture
Beds (pick one)
q King size bed (6’-8” x 6’-0”)
q Queen size bed (6’-8” x 5’-0”)
q Double bed (6’-8” x 4’-6”)
q Twin bed (6’-8” x 3’-3”)
Dresser (pick as many as you want)
q Tall chest (36” x 24”)
q Low chest with mirror on top (72” x 24”)
q Armoire (42” x 24”)
Desk and chair (pick one)
q Small (36” x 18”)
q Medium (48 x 18”)
q Large (60” x 30”)
Miscellaneous (pick as many as you want)
q Toy chest (60” X 30”)
q Book shelf (small – 24” x 12”)
q Book shelf (medium – 36” x 12”)
q Book shelf (large – 48” x 12”)
q 13” TV (small – fits on top of dresser)
q 32” TV (medium – has own stand)
q 60” TV (large flat screen – has own stand)
q Stereo (small boom box)
q Stereo (medium sound system – 20” x 20” plus speakers)
q Stereo (large sound system – 20” x 60” plus speakers)
q Lounge chair (32” x 30”)
q Couch (folds out to a bed 80” x 31”)
q Futon (folds out to bed 72” x 38”)
q Night stand with lamp and clock (18” x 18”)
Erie Community College
Title III Grant