Acoustic Felt Curtain and Acoustic Reading Nook Design
Many of our clients in the SF bay area are business owners who are leasing a space and looking to renovate. The challenge to keep the project on budget and to make a space that truly fits their practical needs and aesthetic desires is where we specialize. We work with many clients who lease or own their building, and do not want to put in the upfront cost of permanent walls in their renovation quite yet. These design constraints allow us to flex our interior design mussels, creating spaces with large custom furniture, rolling partitions, screens and other non permanent elements that do the job of creating the desired space transitions.
To separate spaces in a fun eye popping way, we designed this acoustic felt screen as an easily configurable room divider. This low and long header between the spaces allowed us to easily fit the acoustic panels on a track creating a very easy to move, sound dampening curtain. We cut fun shapes into the acoustic felt, giving it interest and allowing some light to come through, while still dampening the sound of traveling noise.
Addressing the need for acoustic dampening of traveling voices in this open floorplan of a school, we specified carpeting, fun acoustic felt walls and these custom designed reading nooks below for the kids lounge area.
These custom reading nooks we designed for the school create a quite and personal space for the students when looking for private reading or rest time. The “reading nooks” were placed in a corner of the building, defining that area in a cost efficient manner - allowing the school not to upfront the cost of putting up walls in a building they are leasing.
You can see the full project scope as well as all the interesting pieces we did for this space on our full project post here.
Having our own in house fabrication shop (Secret Weapon Workshop) also allows us to keep the prices down for custom elements like this and make quick changes or updates as needed while staying in the agreed budget.
