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Make your Home Noise-Proof
Mon 22 Jan 2007 - 16:10
Make your Home Noise-Proof
By Rajiv Sahadevan
Sounds are common in the home environment. The television could be on in the living room or the music system could be blasting from the other room. The maid could be rinsing steel utensils in the kitchen and your dog could be barking at something at the window. If your home is not designed or furnished the right way, all these sounds could amount to noise which could get annoying to the ears.
Empty spaces rebound sound. If your home has ceramic tiled floors, lots of glass windows, and very tall ceilings with scarce upholstery, the whole house will start echoing with sounds. Even a low voiced telephone conversation will sound like an echo to the person on the other end.
Bouncy Pitch
Sounds too need a place of their own. If they don't get a home to rest in, they bounce right back noisily. Sounds enjoy soft, absorbent places. Hard surfaces bounce back sound waves whereas soft surfaces absorb the decibel level. Sound easily reverberates off glass surfaces. If you have glass windows, do them up with heavy curtains or even soft, light ones with valances, to muffle the sound. Paintings or pictures with glass can add to sound reverberation too. Go in for paintings without the glass sheet.
Carpet Canceling
Carpets and wood help absorb sound. Spread a large carpet in the living room and cushions of thick fabric on your sofa. Place potted plants or large urns in room corners. If you have a book case, keep tiny figurines or bonsai on the shelves. Better still, if you have a lot of space, add shelves on the walls and fill them with books, plants and artifacts made from wood rather than those made of glass, ceramic or metal. You could also put that Persian carpet you don't want to be stepped on to good use by hanging it up n the wall in your living room. It also lends style to the décor and muffles sounds.
Kitchen Essentials
In the kitchen, throw one or two washable floor rugs on the floor. Have potted plants or herbs on the counter and if you have a bookshelf, put cookbooks and plants on the shelves. If you kitchen cupboards are made of wood, they will help absorb sound easily, but, if they have a mica surface, even the sound from your mixer could sound grinding on your ears. Place anything porous, like stone tables or lamps, to soak up sounds.
Rajiv Sahadevan is a web designer, Online Real estate agent and a successful internet marketer with 10 years of experience in the industry. See more on the author and his websites - Property In India, Real estate India. This article is a complete work of TOI Real Estate Section, Sunday Edition.
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