. The main one is usually the central place for you and your family to relax and catch up when all together or away from work, school or other commitments. You can use different rooms for separate uses and the living room is most families ideal place to unwind at the end of the day for the evening whilst settling down, watching TV or other family activities.
Many families are now beginning to use separate rooms in their homes as retreats to partake in their favourite hobbies including music, DJing and other noise creating interests. These are not too popular with the neighbours. It may even be the case that in fact you subject your neighbours to enjoy your passions on a regular basis and therefore you are the one causing unrest in your neighbourhood.
Modern day requirements for around the clock public transport can disturb a percentage of homeowners peace and quiet in their living space. It is especially irritating when it is consistent, loud and unavoidable. Plots being used for new homes are always being planned alongside major transport routes which during the day when out of the house is a major benefit being easy to move around however when you need to relax it can be a pain.
A common solution which has become more popular since the introduction of much more friendly to install options is soundproofing methods.
For the home or workplace you can install methods of sound insulation which reduce the amount of sound waves from unwanted noise escaping or entering the room. Sound insulation will keep your racket inside your specified room and soundproofing keeps out others noise and the traffic, passers-by, neighbours etc.
The options cover all areas which carry potential disturbance. You can install methods and create soundproofing walls which instantly reduce the space between your walls and therefore create a type of barrier specifically designed to block sound entering the room.
Soundproofing your floors can have the same effect and can make downstairs much quieter with it blocking the noise of heavy footprints as well as noise created upstairs or outside.
You can take it to the next level and also install sound proof doors which can block out up to 50 decibels of exterior noise.
These are just a selection of the modern methods being undertaken to ensure unwanted noise is a thing of the past in modern living.