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[cbpye]

I spoil them.  I give them custom profession names that allow me to easily identify them later on.  They all get rooms that are at least 3x3, and I try to carve their rooms into stone like Obsidian, or Marble, or Limestone.  I save the fancy furnishings for the Leader, though.

Like an earlier poster said, these guys make the fortress RUN.  The farmer and the brewer, the stonecrafter and the mason, the clerk, carpenter and miners... they do much more for much longer than any other dwarf in that fortress.  They've earned the spoilage.

[Karnewarrior]

I don't spoil my dwarves. only my legendaries.
this means all of my starting seven end up in the Hall of Heroes.
along with the platinum sarcophagi (sp) that my king and queen will eventualy rest in.
barons get copper,
counts get silver,
dukes get gold,
kings get platinum.
the legendary get microcline. that way when a dwarf looks at them, his face melts in a Indiana Jones type thing.

[dogstile]

Nah, i pick one favourite when i can be bothered and give them an awesome room

[Itnetlolor]

The most I spoil my S7 is slightly better treatment than the migrants. The XL get's the royal treatment, minus the magma because he's a proper noble worthy of living. After all, he/she puts up with the colony since the beginning.

Considering the extra work as well, they need the best quarters to get everything done. Pretty much, define snazzy.

Well, in the case of my latest trends of building:
My last successful fort (IE- still alive after 5 years with a functional setup and epic dining room)
Wavehandle: I had a special setup made. It forked outward providing more than enough room, spread across a 2D plane.

Commoners = 2x2 rooms (the longer you stayed, the closer to the main hall, and better quality (engraved high-value basic) walls and floors, and even furniture you get).
Nobles = 7x7 full engraved room, starting with high-val-basic (IE- Chalk, Marble, etc.) out. As well as having your own mausoleum at the end of the hall. The rooms are locked post-mortem. Less-worthy nobles get the microcline rooms.

Funny enough, my philosopher only has a bed in the middle of a masterwork engraved chalk room. What can I say; my dwarves love this guy. He's in the ether.

As for rooms that follow a more radial format; they get the big corner rooms, instead of the smaller hall rooms. Basically, they live in walk-in closets, compared to alcoves the others live in.

[tsen]

I suppose so, although it's standard procedure for all dwarves to have a 3x3 room at a minimum, with bed, chair, table, chest and coffer. I believe in overkill over no kill, so married dwarves get a multi-room apartment with more stuff, and nobles get giant elaborate rooms with all sorts of stuff.

Ideally, my goal is to create multiple housing areas so that all dwarves can have a place to sleep that isn't bad no matter what their budget, but unfortunately my computer doesn't like huge numbers of dwarves and I play with immigration off.

[Sheb]

I love to make grandiose architecture, so each of my starting seven usually get a suite of 3 7*7 rooms (Well, they're not square, but more or less 7*7): a dining room, a bedroom and a statue garden. In addition, they get each a 7*7 tomb, exept my expedition leader who get a 9*9 tomb, bigger rooms and an office.

Normal dwarves get 3*3 bedrooms and go into my huge skull-shaped catacomb, while legendary get their own tomb, fashioned after their taste.

In fact, I love spoiling my dwarves so much that my fortresses usually include 5 levels for housing, One for nobles, one for civil servant (Mayor, Sheriff and the like) one for the Starting 7 and the legendaries and 2 for my normal dwarves (god, those 3*3 bedrooms take a lot of space). All in all, a lucky dwarf can have up to 3 different Royal bedroom. :p

[jplur]

I build 6 beds and one chair/table right next to each other, usually by the booze pile.

So yeah I guess 6 of my starting 7 are spoiled.

At least until 30 immigrants show up.

[Rakonas]

Wow, you guys give your dwarves small rooms. I give most of my dwarves 4x6 rooms. 2 doors, 1 or 2 statues (of the occupants), all the furniture chest/cabinet/etc., while my starting 7 usually get 4x12 or 8x6 with their own 4x6 office and dining rooms. Also, every room is engraved with masterful images. When possible I try to have my floor full of bedrooms on the layer with the most adamantite, too, for rooms opulent enough to fit a bedroom, office, dining room, and tomb of highest quality.

[NewoTigra]

Hit a huge deposit of iron in first year, got magma powered metalworking up and running, cranked out a ton of armour and caused a fortress wealth explosion.
This + orc mod + Civforge = constant siege for the last 8 years. I have 12 dwarves, 5 of which are children.

As I have nothing else to do (save for the orbital magma cannon) they each have 'rather nice' rooms. Something around 10x10 bedroom, 8x8 personal dining room, and a 5x5 office, each filled with masterwork iron furniture.

The dwarves are somewhat happy.

[Grendus]

When rent hits, your dwarves will be PISSED! I play with rent on, and I had to take the doors off most of my dwarves rooms because they raised their rent by 100-300 db (masterwork brass doors, very nice but damn pricey). All of my dwarves short of nobles get a 2x2 room with a bed. Legendary dwarves get a cabinet and chest in their room as well. Nobles get four 4x4 rooms, even if they don't need all four. The king gets an entire floor for just him/her and his/her consort, preferably a floor in a flux or obsidian layer with masterwork engravings everywhere, with jeweled masterwork furniture made from electrum, gold, aluminum, or platinum. If I could give them a matress stuffed with goose down and GCS silk sheets I would.

[Lord Dakoth]

All my dorfs get a 3*3 room with smoothed walls and floor, a bed, a chest or bag, and a cabinet. The stuff is usually all exceptional or masterwork, too.

The starting 6 all get 5*5 rooms with smoothed walls, and decorated iron furniture. (Only my tombs and gathering hall have engravings.)

I say starting 6 because my mayors tend to make mandates that lead to a certain molten death.

If I find any furniture items that have an image of a dwarf killing something or making an artifact/masterpiece, the item goes in the room of the dwarf in the picture. I pamper my dorf's egos that way.

Haha, I play with the economy off.

[Skooma]

The starting seven always get a 3x4 room in my forts, but rarely more than a bed or if they are lucky, a cabinet.

You guys should turn off the economy :p. At this point it is just a big headache for no benefit.

[Lord Dakoth]

The economy is pretty much broken, I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 10 people played with it on.

[Nadaka]

I line the entrance of my fortress with their tombs. Latest fort started at war with the elves. In the first spring, I had not yet managed to hook the entrance bridge to the lever. My 7 were drafted to face 2 dozen of the cannibal hippies. 3 died in the defense. 2 lay broken apon the ground. 2 limped back to their beds to suffer fevered dreams. Starvation and thirst set in. First one died, then the next. Then the rage set in. A wave of immigrants arrived. The immigrants walked over the wide open bridge, mechanisms a few paces away. surrounded by dozens of bodies to find 2 maimed and tantruming dwarves within. One died soon after, the bucket of water came too late. The other lingered in madness for a season.

[Satarus]

My starting 7 tend to be in worse beds than my latter immigrants.  Mostly because by the time my fortress is really going, the carpenter is legendary.  This means the last guys get exceptional or masterwork beds encrusted with green glass while my starting 7 get good quality with no decorations.