How to Reduce Echo in a Vaulted Room

If a room in your home contains extra space created by a vaulted ceiling, sufficiently heating and cooling the space isn't your only consideration. Often, you have to reduce the echo experienced in a room with a vaulted ceiling, especially if it also has hard floors. The room's hard surfaces and open space can create an annoying reverberation. Reduce this echo, or reverberation, by installing items inside the room that will better absorb the sound waves.

Area rugs
Carpet
Fabric-covered furniture
Fabric throw pillows
Tablecloths
Plants
Stands or entertainment centers
Sound-absorbing panels

Instructions

- 1
  Lay thick area rugs on the floor in different locations. Install wall-to-wall carpet in the room as an alternative to small rugs. Rugs and carpeting are decorative and functional, as they absorb sound.
- 2
  Replace any leather furniture in the room with furniture covered in soft fabric. Add fabric throw pillows to sofas. Place cloth tablecloths on any tables.
- 3
  Hang long drapes that extend down to the floor over room windows.
- 4
  Position large, leafy potted plants in the room corners.
- 5
  Place any television sets, radios or speakers on top of stands or in entertainment centers instead of on the floor.
- 6
  Install sound-absorbing acoustic panels, such as fabric or foam panels, on the room walls.

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