An Overview of the Best Ways to Soundproof Your Game Room

The game room has the potential to be one of the rowdiest areas of the house, as the activities that take place in this area are designed to promote fun so that members of your family can easily blow off some steam after a hard day at work. This is especially true of game rooms that feature furniture like billiards or shuffleboard tables, since playing these games often leads not only to high spirits as part of the friendly competition but also to excited cheering, which can result in high vocal volume.

 So, before you start playing your brand-new McClure Tables shuffleboard, consider the acoustic effect it will have on the living experience in the rest of your house. For example, the placement of your game room may have seemed like a good idea when you decided to build this kind of space in your home. Still, you may have unintentionally placed it above or next to a bedroom where the inhabitant will likely be a little peeved to be awoken during a late-night game of Horse Collar. Once you have located a space that everyone in the house can agree on for your new shuffleboard table, you'll likely still need to take steps to make the room as soundproof as possible so you can enjoy your activity center at all times of the day and night. Begin by laying down plush carpeting with a high pile so that, as noise reverberates throughout the space, the flooring helps absorb sound waves and muffle them rather than sending them bouncing throughout the room. To successfully make your game room as soundproof as possible, you will need to be sure that you have as few flat surfaces in the room as possible to make sure that sound waves don't travel throughout the room, but instead get muddied up as much as possible. One way to do this is to incorporate as much plush furniture as possible throughout the place. Instead of hard stools, place fabric-covered armchairs throughout the space so the space is not only soundproof but also extremely comfortable.