Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Creative Common House Soundproofing?

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Look in the recent archives-we just discussed this a few days ago.

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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
> From: lpoley <lpoley [at] vt.edu>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:21:55 -0400
> To: cohousing-l <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_Creative Common House Soundproofing?
> 
> 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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