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[Nullnostalgia]

So, something that a lot of people differ on- I'm curious as to what other people's fortresses do for bedroom. I know some go all out(like me) with pure marble floor and walls, masterfully engraved, n' such. And other people go for a simple free bed- 'cause dwarves would be happy to gnaw on cold mushrooms, drink stale booze, and sleep on rocky muddy floors so long as there's neat statues nearby.

Either way, my bedroom design is a simple 5x5 room with a door in the center, and then five beds on the wall opposite of the door- then with rock coffers in front of them, and then cabinets wherever I want in the corners. Once engraved n' stuff, this ends up with dwarves having 'personal palaces' despite sharing them with four other dwarves, since it counts each as coffer/cabinet as being 'owned' by one dwarf, even though it's owned by five.

...did I discover a glitch, or did I accidentally discover Communism?

[wierd]

I use the "tube room" method.  A 1x5 tube with a door on the end. Bed goes against the far wall. They get crappy green glass caninets so they don't leave xxPigtail sockxx trash all over. No further decorations. The dwarves feel these are excellent accomodations.

[NinjaBoot]

I generally go with the lower-class slum-style build, but not so slum-y.

Basically, a 3x3 room with enough room to throw in a rock cabinet, coffer and a bed. 

My nobles, legendary crafters and legendary military get nice 5x5 rooms with any high-quality item, be it gold, platnium or nice looking/mood giving item. 

[Nullnostalgia]

I don't like the tube design, honestly. It feels... cramped. Like the dwarves shouldn't be able to move around it, hence my roomy design. But then again, I have a -bad- tendancy to design everything as 'roomy.' I have 5x5 highways as my main fortress corridors, with pillars every 2 tiles to help cut down on mining space over the long term. Plus, pillars are dwarfy.

So :X. That.

Anything else? I've heard of people designing shaft bedrooms, using up/down stairs going through a 3x3 room with the stairs in the middle. Which could be interesting.

[wierd]

I try to avoid giving my dwarves elegant quarters, because nobles tend to obcscess over things like that.

"Oh, that peasants nasty greenglass room is just too big and spacious, even though all the furnishings are of the lowest possible quality and aren't decorated at all, while I live in an opulently engraved, palacial obsidian mansion, with gold, platinum, and native aluminum furnishings studded with expensive diamonds and other shiny baubles. I feel so depressed knowing that the peasants don't live in total squallor! I will throw a tantrum now and start a loyalty cascade because I'm such an emo bitch about it!"

[Karakzon]

tantrum fights cant spark loyalty cascades.

i tend to find that if you build good quarters for your peasantry then build lots of statues, the nobles just get their bad thought negated. Simple.

[lemmily]

This is how I do my bedrooms, so they each have 1x4(1x3 of floor space) rooms... then eventually they will have (starting from the back of the room) a cabinet, a bed, and a coffer, then the door!

I guess this is fairly cramped.... but I like doing patterns and bigger rooms get annoying.

In this design I get 18 rooms each quarter

[wierd]

It can if they punch the wrong people and get killed for their trouble.

Eg, they punch the distressed minerdwarf husband of the female hammerdwarf who died visciously at the hands of the recent FB invasion, causing him to go berzerk and drive his masterwok pick into the tantruming bitch ass noble's brain. Then all the nobles's friends go psycho.

[BastiBasti]

so? one less noble and all his friends.

[Telgin]

I generally go with the lower-class slum-style build, but not so slum-y.

Basically, a 3x3 room with enough room to throw in a rock cabinet, coffer and a bed. 

My nobles, legendary crafters and legendary military get nice 5x5 rooms with any high-quality item, be it gold, platnium or nice looking/mood giving item.

Sounds about like what I do.  3x3 bedroom with a rock cabinet, a rock coffer and a bed.  I do always at least smooth the stone though.  Seems to keep the dwarves happy enough.  Particularly noteworthy dwarves might get engraved rooms, or if my engravers are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs I might designate some bedrooms for engraving.

Nobles get a big enough bedroom to keep them happy.  That's usually about 7x7, since I'm too lazy to do things like make gem encrusted golden furniture to raise the value.  I just make it big, smooth and engrave it.  Presto: happy noble.

[Elifre]

I'm thinking of using this design for my test fortress and future fortresses. It's compact, simple, and each layer supports 80 dwarves.

[wierd]

I can get greater density with my "swastika" layout, and it doesn't suffer potential hallway clogging from having doors directly opposite each other.

I really need to take a screenie.....

[BastiBasti]

Oh, and btw i allways but my nobles bedrooms on the surface, up high. So i can drop it on some elves with the noble in it and kill 2 major annoyences with 1 bedroom.

[Jimmy T. Malice]

All of my dwarves have bog-standard 1x3 rooms with a bed, cabinet and door, although I have had the walls engraved to increase its value. My baron and mayor have slightly larger offices/dining rooms, with some nice artifact furniture in the former's office.

[Karakzon]

It can if they punch the wrong people and get killed for their trouble.

Eg, they punch the distressed minerdwarf husband of the female hammerdwarf who died visciously at the hands of the recent FB invasion, causing him to go berzerk and drive his masterwok pick into the tantruming bitch ass noble's brain. Then all the nobles's friends go psycho.

thats not a loyalty cascade, thats just a tantrum spiral.
If you want to know what a true loyalty cascade looks like, make your millatery attack the dwarven caravan.