Since there is no official layout for the mountain I've put together a rough idea of what would be on which levels. Keeping in mind that the most important rooms/halls would be the best guarded, and therefore, furthest inward. I tried to match what was shown in the movies, but there wasn't a lot to go by.
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With so little being known about Dwarvin culture that leaves the door open for a lot of extrapolation. The Dwarrow Scholar has done a great job of laying the foundations in this article: https://dwarrowscholar.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/whos-the-bride-dwarven-marriage/ but I don't think that they got it quite right.
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