Looking @ a house on Sunday with outbuilding that was used as a "studio".

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So yeah...best info I have right now is the outbuilding is 582 sq ft and was used as a "recording studio". House is well within my price range so I'm kinda geeked about checking it out. I just have this overwhelming feeling that when I go look at it, it's going to have carpet stapled to the walls and plywood barriers, etc. I'll see if I can take some pictures, etc. Wish me luck!

If all goes well, I may very well have a project I'll require some guideance and advice on. :eek:
 
Hey - even if it does have orange shag on the walls, it's still a great starting point to have 600 sq ft. to have to yourself to do what you want.

Bryan
 
Well, I checked it out. It's nicer than I had anticipated though it will definately have its own hurdles.

It's split up into three rooms, two of the rooms are odd angles the other would make a pretty decent live room, all-be-it kinda small. The construction looks to be solid and there's double paned windows and doors, etc. I'll try to make up a sketch later today.

I can tell which they used as the "control" room just by the outlets present. The floors are very well "padded", with what? I have no idea. Covered by nice pretty carpet. The walls look to be block on the outside and then framed on the inside, no clue what was used for insulation. The wall coverings about halfway up the wall appear to be some sort of absorbant material, very "carpetesque". It actually looks really nice, not tacky at all. How "acoustically sound" it actually is remains to be seen.

What would be the control room has 3 flat walls and one wall at approx a 60 degree angle. The angled wall is the one facing what would be an "iso room" with the live room to the right of both.

Pros and cons of a Control/Mix area that's an odd shape?

I actually like the house so I'm making an offer today, hopefully. I'll try to get some more info as it becomes available.
 
Creamyapples1 said:
What would be the control room has 3 flat walls and one wall at approx a 60 degree angle. The angled wall is the one facing what would be an "iso room" with the live room to the right of both.
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Are you sure that's not the iso room? Sounds like an iso room shape.

The disadvantage to an assymetrical control room is that the reflections are assymetrical, so you'd screw up your stereo imaging. Unless you kill the room dead with absorption.
 
mshilarious said:
Are you sure that's not the iso room? Sounds like an iso room shape.
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That's what I thought when I walked in, but it's the only one of the three with 2342342342 outlets and they left a few snakes here and there and the boards ends of the snakes are terminated in that room.

All three rooms are kinda odd shaped, I mean, it's way better than what I have now, so I wont complain lol.

Made an offer on the place this afternoon, waiting to hear back from them.
 
Odd shapes can work OK as long as you can have symmetry in front of your mix position. The issues becomes when they chop off all the corners or put doors in them.

Looking forward to seeing the pics.

Bryan
 
Update:

I made an offer, they accepted. Which was sweet! I was using a lending company that my employer had a "partnership" program with. They had a pretty good deal, so what the heck? right? Had the house under "contract", life was good.

A few days after signing the contract with the realtor, I'm talking to this chap at another bank and he's telling me about this other loan. 3+ points lower on teh interest, 2% less on the downpayment required, and the PMI was only 25% what the other place had quoted, so it was a no-brainer for me.

No big deal, we redo the contract (since the old one is void because I changed which bank I was dealing with), life is good. Wrong, in the day it took to get them a new contract, supposedly now there is another offer on the table so the owners are "offering the house to the best offer".

I just kept offer the same, I should find out today if I get it or not. Damn people hehe. :rolleyes:
 
So...this is an odd situation to me. May be something quite common, hell...Iunno. Anyway, seems that the owners weren't interested in dealing with the type of loan that I was going with. They accepted a lower offer from a buyer with a "conventional" loan.

From what my realtor was telling me, Inspections from FHA Loans are more in depth and thorough so perhaps they had something to hide?

Regardless, the search continues!
 
Sometimes an obtaining an FHA loan will require a seller to fix certain things before the deal can go through. Often the seller doesn't want to be out-of-pocket for these expenses up front. Bummer, but that's the way it goes.
 
Yeah, which just makes me think that there was stuff wrong that they didnt disclose and/or weren't going to. So it's probably for the best.

There are other fish in the sea, though.
 
Chances are the studio wasn't properly permitted or something like that. If the extra square footage doesn't show up on the county records that is usually the case.
 
FHA loans are definitely more of a pain. They require specific inspections and repairs that may or may not be really required. I had a friend that had to put on a new roof on a garage out back that hadn't been used for 20 years because it was part of the property to be purchased.

The whole FHA process can also take longer to get through all the paperwork. They're great for the buyer - not so great for the seller.

Bryan
 
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