Guitar/Music Room...?

[MrDB]

We had a spare bedroom in the last 2 houses that were guitar rooms. We have now gone condo and I now have a guitar corner in one of the bedrooms, I've downsized to 4 guitars so it works just fine.

[Mr. Jelly]

I have noticed over the years that my music rooms evolve. As I do or so it seems. It's something to keep in mind as many have a tendency to make things permeant. Another thing is the rooms also need to be dusted from time to time.

[ghostnote]

I have a dedicated music room that my lovely SO let me have when I moved in with her 10 years ago or so. All my stuff is up there, mostly, and it has a pretty big closet where I keep everything I’m not using. I love the room; it’s really good for playing in. Not that great for recording - the entire front wall is windows that also extend to each side a few feet. We live on Main Street, so there’s road noise a lot of the time. But I make do - I’m lucky to have a spot like that.

[gurroz]

My music room started as a study. I started studying the guitar and it turned into the guitar room. My only advice is if you share the home, keep your guitar room clean! No one likes to look at clutter. My wife likes showing off my guitar room when friends visit.

[Skarsaune]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

... and sound insulation to keep Mama happy....

I need to look into this. I'm up early practicing guitar before I go to work, so I'm usually on an electric with headphones into a practice amp. I'd really prefer to be practicing with one of my acoustics, but my wife isn't into fiddle tunes at 5am.

[lowrider]

Congratulations on your son joining the Coast Guard. Our daughter also went in. Her first duty station was San Diego. She met her husband there who was also in, and they went from there to Oahu. They each served for around 10 years and now live happily in Hawaii.

I was great to go to the graduation ceremony at Cape May and see where everyone was choosing for their first station. Where did your your son choose?

Enjoy you new guitar room!

[DrunkUncles]

Originally Posted by lowrider

Congratulations on your son joining the Coast Guard. Our daughter also went in. Her first duty station was San Diego. She met her husband there who was also in, and they went from there to Oahu. They each served for around 10 years and now live happily in Hawaii.

I was great to go to the graduation ceremony at Cape May and see where everyone was choosing for their first station. Where did your your son choose?

Enjoy you new guitar room!

My son's first duty station was the 87' Albacore out of Panama City FL. He's now on the Cutter Maple WLB 207 in Atlantic Beach NC.

Years (too many to count) I was on the Cutter Vigilant WMEC-617, then later a series of land/COMSTA's (choose your rate, choose your fate).

[seaveez]

Originally Posted by Jdogblues

My strategy was to not get married

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You live in a guitar store?

(That room looks freakin awesome!)

[TheGITM]

I have had music rooms in the past, but not currently. I have a corner at the moment... if I continue to get more serious about recording I will either convert a spare bedroom or build out a partition in the downstairs den/basement.

My recording corner is enough for now, though.

[keith.rogers]

I converted our son's old bedroom to a music room and consolidated my "office" to the same room, with the office turning into the better half's sewing/quilting domain. With downsizing looming, this is a luxury that may go away in a year. Well, first world problems and all that - been nice while it lasted .

[Chipotle]

You can humidify the whole room, rather than messing with individual cases. Get something like a Vornado Evap40 and an Inkbird humidity controller, and it's pretty much set-and-forget (fill a tank every few days).

[Laughingboy68]

Mine doubles as a spare bedroom. We have a Murphy bed that folds away when we don't have company. When someone needs to sleep in the room, I tuck my pedalboard underneath the stool. People who sleep there have to be okay with being surrounded by speakers and guitars hanging on the walls. It's mostly my son and his fiancée. He's a musician, so it's not unfamiliar to either of them.

I used to have a soundproofed room (a couple of houses ago). This one is better for the musician, not so much for the other occupants of the house. Whenever we've looked at real estate, a music room is one of the priorities.

[rstaight]

My "music" room is in the spare bedroom. My wife once mentioned taking the queen size bed out and and I could dedicate it as a music room.

The third bedroom is set up as an office. But is full of my wife's things.

I have suggested getting a storage shed and having it built to code so I could turn it in to a studio.

[K20C]

My upstairs room looks like this. A bit cluttered, but it works. Extra foam insulation in the walls and a special pad under the carpet makes it almost soundproof.














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[raysachs]

If a multi-function room is too multi-function for a "guitar" room, I guess I don't have a true guitar room. But it feels like I do. This is my combined guitar room, office, meditation space, and our guest room. It's basically my space except for the rare occasions when we have company, at which time the desk I use for guitar stuff and the backing bookcase swing around to the wall side and out comes a murphy bed. Pretty great space and I'm really happy to have it for the 98% of the time it's mine.

-Ray

IMG_4107 by Ray, on Flickr