Student Housing Interior Design in Raleigh-Durham

In a region known for research and technology, students tend to treat the building as a place to work as much as a place to live. The rooms that fill first are the ones that let a group spread out a project, open laptops and stay late. We plan study rooms with large tables, power at every seat, whiteboards and glass or acoustic separation, and we place them near the social lounge so the building feels busy, not hushed.

Social space does the opposite job. A game lounge, a kitchen with seating for a crowd and a pool-side or porch-style terrace give residents a reason to leave the bedroom. In Piedmont weather the outdoor room is usable much of the year, so the furniture needs to handle humid summers and a long green season.

Genentech's planned $700 million plant in Holly Springs, which is expected to employ 420 people, is a reminder that many students in this region are headed for research and manufacturing careers. A study room with real whiteboards and a quiet floor speaks to them, while a social lounge keeps the building from feeling like a lab.

Pre-leasing happens before the building is finished, so the tour is built from a model unit, a leasing center and renderings. The model carries the weight: it has to show what a bedroom, a shared kitchen and a bathroom will feel like, furnished the way the finished units will be. The path from the leasing desk to the model passes a study room and a social lounge so a parent sees both.

Where the building is not ready, rendered views of the amenity spaces and a styled photoshoot of a completed room can carry the story. We approach these as one visual system so a flyer, a website and a tour all match what residents will move into.