With laminate and real wood floor becoming very popular many people have noticed that there homes become very noisy and tend to create echoes. When you install wooden or tiled floors you need to take this factor in to account by compensating by having more soft furnishing that will absorb the sound. Here are two ways that you can decrease the noisiness of your home if you have had wooden floors installed:
If the room that you have had wooden floors fitted has windows in it then fitting a heavy pair of curtain will definitely cut out some if not all of the echo. Install multiple rails so that you can have some light nets pulled across the window in the day so that when the curtains are not pulled some of the noise will still be reduced. In the evening when you have the curtains pulled you will notice that there are no echoes at all. The larger the curtains th greater the effect will be, so if you only have small windows that don’t reach down to the floor put in floor to ceiling curtains anyway.
Hallways are a prime example of noisy rooms; they invariable only have doors off them and have no windows that can have curtains hung in them. Therefore you need to look to the floor. Although it may seem ironic to put a rug on the floor after you have probably replaced carpet with a wooden floor you will still see enough of the floor to get ‘the effect’. Hallways are usually long and narrow and therefore lend themselves well to rug runners which will cover the length of your hallway. If you have a more rectangular hallway then your options are somewhat less narrow and you can choose a rug of your choice. Why not go crazy and have a look at some shag rugs to really create a first impression!
Any other soft furnishing you can squeeze in to your home will definitely help to reduce the noise so think creatively.