For interior design professionals tasked with creating aesthetic, functional indoor spaces in homes, several complimentary trends now offer an opportunity to creatively meet homeowners’ needs as well as market demand. In this endeavor, a unique soundproof, eco-friendly window design may be instrumental in the implementation.
With many people working from home or needing versatile living arrangements, there is currently a trend towards multifunctional spaces within homes. For example, rooms are being designed to serve multiple purposes such as home offices that can double as bedrooms or guest rooms, and living areas may transform into workout spaces.
Residences are also being designed with mental and physical well-being in mind. This includes creating serene environments that promote relaxation, incorporating features such as wellness rooms, home spas, and ergonomically designed furniture.
Among homeowners and industry professionals, there is an increasing emphasis on using sustainable materials and practices as well. Designers are incorporating energy-efficient fixtures, recycled materials, and low-VOC paints.
While the aesthetic palette of interior design is virtually limitless, one area where the trends toward multifunctional spaces, wellness, and sustainability overlap is in the need to minimize intrusive outside noise from penetrating into the home’s interior. Typically, outside noise in many forms enters through windows, which present less of a barrier than walls. Traditional single pane windows, which do little to stop noise, are also notoriously energy inefficient.
Although installing dual pane windows in new homes, or replacement windows in remodels, is a common practice, these windows are designed to keep out heat and cold, but not noise.
Instead, a more creative alternative is growing in popularity among residential interior design professionals: using an advanced window soundproofing technology that preserves peace and quiet within the home. This not only facilitates the multifunctional use of a space whether as a home office, den, bedroom, guest room, or zen room, but also decreases environmental stress and promotes wellness and serenity.
As an example, some interior design professionals are turning to companies like Soundproof Windows, Inc., a company with expertise engineering windows for some of the most noise sensitive environments in the world, such as recording studios.
The company has adapted recording studio window soundproofing technology for residential properties by creating a secondary soundproofing window that installs inside, behind the existing window. The product is custom designed specifically to match – and function – like the original window. The OEM assists interior designers with measuring, ordering, and installing the windows. Installation is simple and usually can be completed in about an hour or two.
The approach has many benefits:
• Using an additional inner soundproofing window where needed on a project allows interior design professionals to stay with the primary windows they designed for the home, preserving acoustic and aesthetic integrity.
• The soundproofing windows can be used only where initially needed or in one area, one side, or the whole project.
• In all cases, the outside appearance remains the same for all of the home’s windows. Interior designers can change their minds later after acoustics testing and soundproof other areas that were not originally designed to be soundproofed.
• When historical restorations and home conversions are required, the soundproof windows can be added without removing the original windows and glass, which is important to preservation.
• The approach also improves the function and sustainability of the home. Soundproofing the home’s windows increases comfort by reducing drafts through the existing window seals while significantly reducing energy costs.
• Adding the second window provides an additional layer of insulation with better insulation values than the best low-e, argon gas filled double paned window, which can reduce heating/cooling loss by 77% or more for single paned windows.
• The added insulation stops unwanted air infiltration around and through window seals and can reduce the heating-cooling portion of energy bills by 15-30%.
• Using laminated glass, 99% of solar UV radiation is blocked as well.
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