Upgrading the Listening Lounge
Some of you may remember my DIY diffuser project I posted about, some months ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/diysound/s/Eyo5JRgpXK).
The Listening Lounge has evolved quite a bit since then. I first added two 6" bass absorbers and three diffusers (all from GIK) on the back wall.
To further help reduce first reflections hitting me from the back wall, I also pulled the sofa forward about two feet, which helped a lot.
I then realized that it created a rather big gap between the sofa and the room treatments, so I figured why not fill up the gap with a sofa table?
So, I learned how to make walnut/epoxy river tables from raw slabs and built me two - one 7' sofa table and an end-table, both in the same style with a blue "river" that also incorporates LEDs.
Very happy with those, and learned a lot from those projects. (Wife was slightly less excited about surrendering one of our garage bays-turned-wood-workshop, but sometimes the end justifies the means and now she's happy. 😁)
I then went ahead and built a coffee table (also walnut+epoxy, but not with "river") This sounded like a great idea until Wife pointed out that "we already have all the coffee tables we need." OK, so what now?
After some thinking I decided to turn it into a back-lit piece of wall art, and that's where we are at now.
All in all, three very fun projects where I learned a whole lot more about woodworking and not least epoxy, beyond what I already learned from the diffuser project.
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