Because I wanted it to feel more like an office than a bedroom, I felt the only solution for a guest bed was a sleeper sofa.

Cold rooms—also known as cold-air dorms, CADs, or cold airs—are spacious, quiet, and dimly lit areas in sorority and fraternity houses, furnished with multiple bunk beds to accommodate members for ...

By living in a small New York City apartment — a one-bedroom that I converted to two—I’ve learned to Tetris my family’s belongings into cabinets and closets just so to make things fit. Still, it’s not ...