Cohousing-L Mailing List: Creative Common House Soundproofing?

[lpoley (lpoley]

We are building our common house and are trying to decide on our sound 
proofing plan for the dining area. We have a high ceiling and will have wood 
floors so we clearly need some help here.  Has anyone done any soundproofing 
on the ceilings or walls of their dining area that is both aestheiticly 
creative AND effective?  We were thinking about doing slung canvas sound 
proofing on the ceiling or perhaps using large (home-made) quilted panels and 
arranging them in an interesting way so they make up a kind of huge quilt in 
the ceiling. We were also wondering if hanging quilts as art along the walls 
would help with soundproofing.  Any ideas or feedback on these ideas? (We were 
not crazy about the tectum when we had a look at it - very institutional 
looking from the photos we saw)  We would like to avoid putting a lot of work 
into an alternative solution though, if it won't really help in the end. 

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