Personalizing Your Living Space
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Stanford provides the basic furniture in rooms and most apartments; your own creativity will make your living space your home.
When You Decorate
- Decide with your roommate/s how to arrange the furniture in your room or apartment.
- Use pushpins or painter's tape to hang pictures or wall decorations. Stronger adhesives remove paint, and putty materials leave grease stains. (You’ll be charged for damage to walls.)
- Use a power strip with a surge protector when you need power for more than two electrical devices. Do not use extension cords with multiple connections at one end.
- Remember that space is limited for additional furniture and storage is not available for University furniture. If you want to use your own furniture, you must store University furniture off campus at your own expense and return it in good condition before you move out.
Restrictions & Outdoors
- Keep balconies and patios clear—do not use tarps or awnings, and do not store items, even briefly.
- Please do not attach awnings, tarps or screens to any Student Housing property, including exterior buildings, fences, and trees.
- Exterior storage units in good condition may be used but they must be made of high-density plastic or non-chewable material, must be lockable, and may not exceed the height of the patio fence (less than 42" in height).
- Do not attach anything to or hang anything from patio fences, wood awnings, or windows except well-maintained plants or wind chimes.
- Hot tubs, saunas, and pools of any size are not allowed within or outside the residences.
- Keep well-maintained potted gardens on patios; do not plant directly in the ground, and please do not put plants in common areas.
- Please store toys on patios when not in use so Student Housing staff can maintain the lawns.
- To ensure your safety, barbecues are not allowed above the first floor of any building, including balconies and landings in EV and Rains. Built-in barbecues are provided throughout graduate housing, and personal barbecues are permitted on the ground level. Please keep barbecues a safe distance from buildings, fences, dry brush, and mulch. Dispose of used coals safely—not in landscaping.