How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

A neat ceiling number with oak trim

Maybe not exactly the right thread, but, I picked up some Q acoustics ceiling speakers cos they were cheap and I wanted music in the kitchen and they sound pretty good, but the sound travels a lot upstairs (bare floorboards at the minute which isn’t helping). Is there a good reason NOT to fit some kind of ICE soundproofing stuff in the gap around them?

Lovely.

Stunning.
Do we need a typical LFGSS list?
Jokes aside I’m putting a mini kitchen in my loft.

yessssss

The downstairs neigbour in our old place fitted a ceiling speaker directly under our bed 😑

No expert or anything, but I'm sure when I was looking into this for my bathroom a while back you get little pot things to go over the backs to help project sound down.

Idk if that's the same for all, or if there is some sort of design aspect to it depending on the speaker/other factors.

Personally I'd be tempted to make mdf cabinets to go over then put sound proofing/ deading material around the outside of the box.

This is seriously good.
Kitchen planning must be nice when there are no walls in the way.

Oh my

Thanks, though I definitely can’t be arsed to build cabinets for them!

Cabinets sounds a bit fancy. I was thinking more of a 5 sided mdf box. But I can understand that is still a faff.

Definitely do some searching as I'm sure things like this must exist otp.

holy moses that's beautiful

Thanks that's really kind but I think my wife has slightly different ideas now... She thinks a single block colour won't work (I'm sure she's right) so she's gone cold on the idea of a rubber floor - but very much appreciate the offer!

You’ve done well there lad. Loving the stainless work surface and splashback and lovely kickboard 😎

@user75580 that looks great dude - bet you’re chuffed. Personally think that’s a better kitchen than the one you took inspo from (bulthaup or whatever it was)

No going back now! Found a random old doorway…
Also found this photo of the old kitchen appliances hiding in the garage kinda lol

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Brilliant. Do you have some insufferable insta reno account I can follow so I can watch along and imagine it’s me doing the smashing to my shithole?

@olaf_von_pokemon no problems! They are here if they are any use.

My 4 year old has declared we’re having a yellow rubber floor after seeing the samples. Think I’m just going to go with it as at least someone in the house has made up their mind.

@Tenderloin exciting times!

Of course we do! Here

Jeezus Christ.

Reno accounts are insufferable.

Your insufferable

Just sharing one of my favourite things. Storage.

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Over the hob. Elica Lullaby.

Is that the back side of the kitchen?

Yes