Top hacks for selecting the best rooms for international students

You have finally picked your student house, signed your tenancy agreement, and cannot wait for the prospect of living with your best friends, but then it can be awkward about the bedroom chat, and who is going where. To avoid stress, arguments and even panic ensure you sort out your rooms early and ensure you do it fairly. We have put together the ultimate guide to select rooms with the low down on all different kinds of rooms and come up with some easy and fair selection techniques, some more adventurous than others.

Decide what room you will pick if given the choice

Although to avoid any kind of disappointment, you might not like to have a pre-set preference for the rooms before the big selection, it is an important idea to know roughly what kind of room you will choose if given the choice. Every room has its own advantages and disadvantages, but which outscale the others?

Ground-floor room: The horror stories, which come with the dreaded ground-floor room, are enough to put anyone off choosing this room as their own, that and the fact that everyone expects you to retort the door every time the buzzer rings. However, there are definitely some advantages to living on the bottom floor. Generally, this bedroom is bigger than the others as there is some extra space on the ground floor and it is the most sociable room in the house. In addition to it, it is close to the lounge, and the kitchen, and anyone who visits always pops in to say hi.

Top-floor room: There is a wide range of positives about having a room on the top floor of student accommodation Leeds. It will generally have a lot of character, slanted roofs, skylights, or maybe even a view. You will get woken up by the drunken housemates stumbling past your door in the middle of the night. However, the top floor rooms are prone to being a bit smaller, maybe colder, and definitely ensure you check that the Wi-Fi signal is reaching the top.

Next to the bathroom: There are many advantages to always being the first in the shower. You can enjoy the bathroom mirror and nip to the toilet without going up a flight of stairs. However, there is a large possibility that the noise from the taps and the water pipes will eventually get on the nerves, that, or your housemate belting out a song in the shower while you are trying to study.

The small room: The small room always seems to be talked down, being deemed the box room or being the cave, however, these rooms are quite cozy and will never get cold. But ensure if this is your room, you have bagged yourself extra storage space somewhere else in the house.

The large room: Having the large room is everyone’s room. It is one of the most spacious rooms in the house and after spending a cramped year in the halls, it is something to boast about. However, these rooms can be really hard to heat and need to be filled with character to avoid any kind of empty and unhomely.

En-suite room: If you have managed to bag yourself an en-suite then do not even think about complaining. No waiting to shower, no waiting to brush your teeth, or a whole bathroom to yourself. But be warned for some houses with only one other bathroom, the en-suite is communal too, so there is a high chance that people will be traipsing back and forth across the room in order to use the bathroom.

Delegate the rooms

In a perfect world, everyone will get their preferred rooms, however, inevitably most of the future housemates will be after the same one. Therefore, here are some quick and best ways to decide who gets what.

• Out of that: It is an interesting technique that has been used for generations as it is quick, easy as well as fair. Simply number the rooms in the house and then pick these numbers out of a hat, whichever number you get, that’s your room.
• Have a discussion with your friends: discussing who gets what room can be an ideal way to go forward. You might find that there is only one person in the house who wants the ground room or someone who wants to stay in the top room.
• Sorting the rooms by price: In some student houses, there are some rooms that are significantly bigger than others, and splitting up the rooms by price based on their size is another amazing tactic. There might be some people in the house who are prepared to spend more in order to have a bigger room, working in the favor of those who want to cut down costs, so it is a win- win situation for all.
• Switching rooms halfway across the year: Surprisingly, there have been stories about the people who were so undecided about the rooms. Their solution is to switch the rooms across the year. Packing and unpacking all the belongings can be a nuisance to do, especially more than once, but if there are some people who are not happy with the room, switching halfway across the year could solve that problem.