Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Acoustics in common house

[Holly McNutt (holly.mcnutt]

Hi Melanie,

Those sound great.  Would you be willing to email me a photo that I can pass 
along to our Common House team?

Many thanks,
Holly
holly.mcnutt [at] gmail.com

On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Melanie Mindlin wrote:

> 
> There are a number of ways recommended to dampen the noise in the common 
> house.  Rugs, for example, would help a lot but of course we want to be able 
> to do easy clean up in the dining area so they are not appropriate.  We tried 
> pieces of rug glued under the tables, which didn't make much difference and 
> came unglued.  
> 
> Then we saw some lovely homemade acoustic panels in the common house of our 
> nearby cohousing community in Bend, Oregon.  These are about 30" square (the 
> exact size is not important) made out of 2x2 wood with some light canvas type 
> cloth stretched over the frame and filled with blue-jean insulation batts on 
> the top.  These are hung from short chains (about 2-3" long) from hooks in 
> the ceiling.  They are in a regular pattern with a couple of inches between 
> the panels and can be taken down for cleaning if necessary.  We made them 
> ourselves over several community workdays.
> 
> We are quite pleases with the results.  Not only are they attractive, but 
> they really work.  Since we did all the work ourselves the cost was very 
> reasonable and they're out of the way where nobody has to bother with them.  
> It was a little tricky working around our existing light fixtures, but we 
> calculated the whole pattern and size of panels ahead of time to fit around 
> them.
> 
> Melanie Mindlin
> Ashland Cohousing Community
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Holly McNutt <holly.mcnutt [at] gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ exclusive dinners vs community dinners- Mary Ann
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>> Mary Ann - If/when you find some good noise abatement solutions, pleas let 
>> me know Thanks, Holly
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