Starfire_KTreva
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I'm a vocalist primarily, but play a little of a lot of instruments, DH plays guitar. we're currently trying to get a band together and I'm looking at setting up a rehearsal/recording space for my own use, I have 4 options, ordered by price they are:
1: convert the bedroom our boarder currently has when he moves out at the end of the year. Our house is a turn of the century Victorian villa so it's got 12ft pressed metal ceilings and hardwood floors, that room needs the walls re-lining anyway so we could add soundproofing to the walls when we do that, however it would need to be some pretty beefy soundproofing, we've got 2 young children and practice time is usually when they are sleeping, so it'd need to mute it to a level where it won't wake them up, no shared walls with either of their bedrooms fortunately though. it mesures 3.99m x 3.99m (approx 13' x 13') with a chimney and built in wardrobes making it 3.58m (12') in one direction, it's at the front of the house and has a large window that covers most of one wall.
2: Convert the roof space, We'd need really good soundproofing in the floor but there is a lot of useable space up there, I don't know what the angles ceilings would be like for acoustics and there could be access problems, the only access currntly is through two offset manholes (false ceiling) in the kitchen.
3: purpose build in new garage. We need to replace our very old single car garage anyway so we could purpose build a rehersal/recording space into the new garage when we do that, however we still need some garage space for storage and so couldn't go much bigger than a single car garage in there. the garage also is directly on the street, literally the doors open onto the footpath.
4: build a whole new room onto the back of the house, we could go up to 6m x 6m in this case and it would be isolated from the bedrooms. Expensive though.
My preference would be for Option 4 but I don't think we could afford it at the moment. However can anyone suggest pro's or cons for any of the options and how to go about designing it?
1: convert the bedroom our boarder currently has when he moves out at the end of the year. Our house is a turn of the century Victorian villa so it's got 12ft pressed metal ceilings and hardwood floors, that room needs the walls re-lining anyway so we could add soundproofing to the walls when we do that, however it would need to be some pretty beefy soundproofing, we've got 2 young children and practice time is usually when they are sleeping, so it'd need to mute it to a level where it won't wake them up, no shared walls with either of their bedrooms fortunately though. it mesures 3.99m x 3.99m (approx 13' x 13') with a chimney and built in wardrobes making it 3.58m (12') in one direction, it's at the front of the house and has a large window that covers most of one wall.
2: Convert the roof space, We'd need really good soundproofing in the floor but there is a lot of useable space up there, I don't know what the angles ceilings would be like for acoustics and there could be access problems, the only access currntly is through two offset manholes (false ceiling) in the kitchen.
3: purpose build in new garage. We need to replace our very old single car garage anyway so we could purpose build a rehersal/recording space into the new garage when we do that, however we still need some garage space for storage and so couldn't go much bigger than a single car garage in there. the garage also is directly on the street, literally the doors open onto the footpath.
4: build a whole new room onto the back of the house, we could go up to 6m x 6m in this case and it would be isolated from the bedrooms. Expensive though.
My preference would be for Option 4 but I don't think we could afford it at the moment. However can anyone suggest pro's or cons for any of the options and how to go about designing it?