A hall that hummed, calmed
Fernhill's workshop hall was a big echoing box: bare block walls, a concrete floor and lighting that buzzed. Twelve makers shared it, and every conversation fought the room. The studio asked us for warmth and quiet without losing the industrial honesty of the space.
Our answer was a full wrap: vertical oak slats over acoustic felt on three walls, a new ash plank floor, and a ceiling raft that hides services while swallowing reverberation. The hall now measures half the echo it had — and bookings for the space doubled within a season.
Timber as acoustic treatment
The slats are not decoration — they are a tuned surface. Each 40mm oak batten sits over mineral-wool felt with a calculated shadow gap, breaking up reflections across speech frequencies. We prototyped three spacings in our own workshop and measured them before committing the client to 900 linear metres of oak.
- 900 metres of solid oak slats, pre-finished and clip-fixed for future access
- New ash plank floor over acoustic underlay, finished in hardwax oil
- Oak-clad service raft hiding lighting tracks, sprinklers and cabling
Let's rebuild it properly
Tell us about your house and what it could become. We will visit, measure and quote — free within 40 miles of Prescott.