Heh. For my bedrooms (including prisons) I use a single bed in a 7x7 area with a light and some flower pots. Usually later I upgrade he flooring from wood to stone bricks for the beauty value. Happy prisoners are non-rebellious prisoners.
I also find that giving orders in batches tends to help. Like at the beginning I prefer doing one thing at a time. I make a basic barracks, then when I start getting idle colonists, I make a freezer, then after I get idles again, a warehouse, and so on and so forth. Though usually I also have a farmer doing the plots while everyone else handles the construction.
Aand in addition to that, I usually ration medicine pretty severely. I save anything above herbal medicine for actually potentially-lethal operations and handling the really bad injuries. In most cases I personally prefer either using mass-produced herbal medicine, or if it's before the first heal root crop, just no medicine at all.
But maybe this is an awful way of doing it. I'm not exactly a Rimworld pro.
Addional fun fact I just learned via the Rimworld sub reedit: Apparently you can put chairs at workbenches where the worker usually stands to let them sit and raise their comfort star while working.
AND apparently if you're the kind of person who keeps small raw food/resource stockpiles by your workbenches for higher efficiency, apparently items on stools can be instantly picked up by an adjacent guy.
So if you have a chef making a simple meal with an adjacent stockpile of potatoes, usually the chef has to go over to the stockpile and pick up the potatoes even though they're in an adjacent tile. But if the potatoes are on a stool, the chef instantly picks them up without moving.