Sound dampening is easy to understand when you apply a little basic science to how sound travels through the air. Sound is a wave that travels through the air and echos when reflected from solid objects. When sound waves come into contact with a material that allows them to penetrate, they can become trapped which leads to muting and dampening. Materials such as foam or plastic can work to dissipate vibrational energy caused by sound. Panels made from these types of materials trap sound and can ultimately reduce the overall noise and ambiance of any given room.
There are many places that use sound dampening as part of the initial structure and are so commonplace that they may go unnoticed or leave you wondering what their purpose is. Movie theaters are a good example of this. You may have noticed that in most theaters, the walls are either lined with soft felt-like material or are covered in waves and bumps. The sole purpose of this design is to keep the sound within the specific theater room to prevent as much sound as possible from traveling to the next theater over. It’s almost certain everyone who has been to a movie has had a bad experience where they hear the sound of a movie they aren’t watching which ruins the experience you were meant to have.
Theaters are not the only place where this practice is common. Libraries, auditoriums, and many gyms, all use sound dampening to improve the experience of their patrons. Often, reducing the amount of echo and reverberating sound can have a large impact on the overall atmosphere of the room which creates a better experience for those spending time there.
Sound dampening works differently than soundproofing. Soundproofing requires specific materials in larger quantities to achieve the desired result. A soundproofed room is designed to block noise from entering or from leaving. In these kinds of rooms, it is near impossible to hear anything coming within or coming from without the soundproofed walls.
At Orfield Laboratories located is South Minneapolis USA, there is a room that has been soundproofed so well that it has been labeled the world’s quietest place and holds the Guinness World Record for this achievement. It’s called the ‘anechoic chamber’ and this room is so sound-absorbent that 99.99 percent of all sound is absorbed. No one has lasted more than 45 minutes in the anechoic chamber and it has been described as so quiet it’s possible to hear your blood flow through your body.
Most people are not looking for this level of soundproofing, but it is spectacular to know what is possible in the realms of removing sound from a room. By the simple combination of mesh, foam, and plastic materials, sound can be muted or dampened which adds a level of control to how we use our environments.
Aside from professional recording studios and other buildings where professional-level sound manipulation is necessary, it is usually impractical to spend the money in your home or small business to try and soundproof a room. Soundproofing often requires expensive and unattractive materials that need to be professionally installed. Although the cost associated with soundproofing can vary, the average cost for a small room can easily add up to thousands of dollars.
The first major advantage of Felt Right is the cost. Felt Right offers felt tiles that are crafted expertly from recycled PET plastic which creates a thin, durable, and light felt board. By using the same PET plastic which is found in water or soda bottles, we are helping to reduce waste while creating a durable product that will last. By using Felt Right’s product, you can rest assured that you won’t have to compromise quality for cost.
Compared to other products that can be used to dampen sound, our felt tiles are both affordable and cost-effective when larger spaces are being considered for use. Our design studio allows you to create both the shape and design that you like best. This means you can control the way it will look and ensure that it is scaled to fit the space perfectly. You end up with no more and no less than you actually need which means you won’t be paying for anything you won’t need, a big money saver for any DIY project.
The second advantage is how easy these tiles are to install. When it comes to DIY, saving time is just as important as saving money. With Felt Right, you save both. These felt tiles are lightweight and small enough that anyone can install them. They require no nails, screws, or special tools, and installation is made easy by adhesive tape which you peel and stick. This tape holds the panels firm against the wall but the strength doesn’t remove paint or damage the wall if the time comes for it to be taken down or moved.
Finally, perhaps the most advantages part of Felt Right’s tiles are their visual appeal and utility. Other products that can dampen sound don’t typically look good and can stick out like a sore thumb. Don’t install something that is an eyesore. Our felt tiles come in an array of colors that can match any space and they are thin enough that they don’t protrude awkwardly and take up more space than necessary. With the combination of colors and tile shapes, you can design patterns and shapes in endless combinations. You can dampen the sound of your room, add art and color to the wall, and they can even be used as a fully functional pin or bulletin board. Our product does much more than reduce noise, you save time and money, and leaves you with a product you can fall in love with.
Start browsing our designs and ideas and make something you will enjoy looking at and are proud to display. No one will ever know that the art they are looking at is actually dampening sound and creating the wonderful ambiance you’ve been looking for.
Large Open Rooms
Homes with large open living rooms or family rooms can be rather loud, especially when children are running about and playing or even when you have a group of people over. In more recent years, wood floors have become popular for main rooms and hallways. Although aesthetically pleasing and a wonderful addition to most homes, these types of floors do generate more noise and can send echos through your home. Transform your long hallways and large open spaces by adorning the blank walls with decorative felt tiles. This will let you add color and life to otherwise blank walls, allow you to blend beautiful design and texture while reducing the sound and echo of your home.
Studies
We all have a place in our home where we go to get a little work done or sit down for a little reading. Having a comfortable place where you can quietly get things done isn’t always easy. Bring life and color to your study while improving how quiet it is so you can work in peace and comfort.
Craft or Art Rooms
While the sound may not be the primary issue, finding a place to pin things to dry or to keep things organized can be a challenge. Tackle both problems with a display wall of felt tiles. You’ll dampen some of the unwanted sounds, have a place to display or hang your projects, and when you’re all done, the wall will still look great. What could be better than a piece of functional art for an art room?
Children’s rooms
Playtime mixed with creative time can be some of the most fun and entertaining parts of watching your kids grow up. Giving them a space to do so where they can freely make believe with their siblings or friends will make memories that both of you will treasure. From princess castles to dark forests, you can build something for everyone. Perhaps the best part of these sound dampening tiles is that they can be changed so easily. If the time comes that the castle needs to be upgraded to a more traditional pinboard design, just move around the panels and build something new. The possibilities are endless and the potential is grand. Check out our designs and start creating your own design today.
Condos, Apartments, Townhomes
Anyone who has even been to or lived in a condo knows just how loud they can get due to how close they all are. This also goes for apartments and townhomes which are all designed as compact living spaces where there is little to no space between residencies. Either by the fault of thin walls, loud neighbors or out of the common courtesy of wanting to keep things quiet, you have most likely been looking for a solution to make your life a little quieter. Felt tiles can offer you the advantage of quieting your life and making your apartment, townhome, or condo a more tranquil place to be.
Dance Studios
Sound dampening can also benefit dance studios and gyms. It’s amazing how much noise can be generated by a group of people moving around and working out. These environments can be improved by felt tiles making it easier to hear the instructors as well as help to keep people moving to the rhythm of the music. Check out our design ideas to get inspired for a design that can revolutionize your studio.
Restaurants
How people perceive your restaurant has a lot to do with how it looks. Cultivating a welcoming environment that people will want to come to and spend time in is a crucial part of driving business. When your customers want to stay, they might stick around and order desert, but most importantly they will want to come back. Create something unique and inviting for your restaurant with felt tiles. This will give you art and color which helps reduce the sound and make it easier for your customers to chat and for your servers to take orders. View our designs and get inspired today.
Office Space and Call Centers
Felt tiles are a wonderful solution for any office environment looking to maintain a quieter environment as well as provide additional functionality for your agents. Not only does Felt Right’s Felt Tiles help to dampen sound, but they are completely functional pinboards. Solve two problems with one product and even transform a call center environment.
Call centers are a crucial part of many businesses and due to the close proximity of agents and the near-constant string of phone calls, a call center environment can be loud. Not only can this make it difficult for the agents to focus on their work, but background noise can also make a poor experience for anyone calling in. If the background noise makes it difficult for the customer to hear the agent, the impression can come off as unprofessional and aggravating.
Felt tiles are a wonderful solution for any office environment looking to maintain a quieter atmosphere as well as provide additional functionality for your agents. Not only does Felt Right’s Felt Tiles help to dampen sound, but they are completely functional pinboards. Solve two problems with one product and transform your call center environment.
Video and Podcasting
Creating a background for your video can be difficult or expensive. Regardless of whether or not you are starting out, beginning to grow an audience, or have a developed platform, you can always upgrade and design a better studio. Felt tiles offer you endless creative opportunities to design a wonderful background that will look amazing and bring new life to your video.
Along with providing you with a customizable background design that can easily be changed and rearranged, the PET felt will help dampen sound and provide better audio quality for your videos and projects.
Finding the perfect environment for recording audio can be difficult. A simple addition of felt tiles to your recording room or studio will allow you to have improved sound quality because of the sound dampening qualities of the product. Freelancers and businesses alike can take advantage of this affordable and multipurpose material. Start designing the new background for your studio today.
So easy to put up. The adhesive tabs are super easy to use and do actually come off the wall if needed
Lots of colors to choose from with the sample pack. . The selection they currently have is very nice. Hoping they add a few more browns, yellow and orange colors in the future.
My home office echoed so badly. And I talk loudly. So those paired together made for a very loud house. I installed the felt in a shiplap type pattern. It turned out great and really cute down the noise.
I place them on the small room which is my music studio
Love how lively it makes it look
Gave our Stairwell a great pop of color. Yellow was a very nice, pleasing shade. Nice to see in the morning, like a little sunshine in our home.
Love these tiles. They were so easy to install. I got the sample pack to compare the colors and see what works best with my walls. Loved it so much I ordered two more and made a pinboard that fit perfectly in this unused and empty space, turning an empty corner into a cosy quite reading nook.
I've added a few designs to my music room/home office. It definitely cuts down on some of the "live-room" sound reflections and makes a great backdrop for online meetings. Easy installation.
I got these for my kitchen to move some things off the front of the fridge. They are excellent. I found some cute push-pins at Target.
I don't usually write reviews, but my experience with Felt Right was so good I had to! I needed a little pop of color in my office, and this seemed like a great (and functional) way to go. The website, the shopping and designing experience, the checkout...everything is so well designed and smooth. Product shipped fast, arrived in very nice and very well presented packaging, and is exactly as described. The tiles themselves are great and so much fun! Easy to install and the possibilities are endless. Such a simple, yet brilliant product backed up by a fantastic shopping experience.
Amazing! Sticks to the wall perfectly, no fear of the tiles falling off. Perfect thickness to display pins. Arrived packaged well and quickly. Will be buying more!
The tiles stick to the wall very well. They hold a good amount of weight, I used mine to hold up enamel pins and the tiles are the perfect thickness for the pins to not touch the wall.
I will be buying more.
I recently inherited a piano and needed something to dampen the sound (as I live in a condo). I had a blast designing a geometric layout online and it was SUPER easy to install. I’m very happy with the results and recommend this for accent walls - especially in an office or kids room (they’re whimsical and serve well as push pin boards)
I bought the starter pack as well as a couple large squares to fill an empty wall in my bedroom. I had hoped they'd help with ambient noise, and while I haven't noticed a difference at all, the look and quality of my first order is good enough that I'm planning to buy more!
I purchased the Oxford Cross tiles for my office. I recently purchased a new desk for my office and I started looking for a bulletin board to go above my desk but all of the cork boards, etc...that I saw online or at Target seemed very cheap. I wanted something a bit more sophisticated for the office so I was thrilled when I came across feltright.com. I found the style and color combo that looked perfect in the space. The tiles were easy to put up and they look great! I love them.
I needed to get a new task board and kept procrastinating since they are so boring. Somehow I stumbled on feltright.com and was so thankful they were there! Now my task board also serves as great decoration! The online studio helped me actually see the design I wanted and added the correct pieces to my cart for me to insure I got exactly what I needed in the colors that match my furniture. Perfect!
I love my new felt wall. It adds such a great pop of color and looks so much better than the ugly cork board I used before. Would order again and may expand on what I already have. Really lovely.
Nice splash of color in our home. Yellow was a nice — not too bright. Pretty easy to install.
Quality of tiles and ease of applying to walls exceeded expectations! Love the addition and was also impressed with how quickly the tiles shipped and arrived. 10/10 would recommend Felt Right to anyone
We are using these tiles on the ceiling of our new home theater room. It’s still a work in progress; decided to extend the design so ordered more tiles last night. Right now we are attaching them with the standard tabs provided by Feltright. We will likely add stronger adhesive once we have them in place. We are having to cut around light fixtures, speakers, and the projector arm. We also have to deal with speaker wire. We are using Ebony Parallel, which have engraved lines on one side. For the line of tiles with speaker wire we flipped the tile over and used the engraved line as a channel for the wire to run underneath. These tiles are likely the ones which will most need additional adhesive. The tiles look great, are easy to cut, and have really helped with a flutter echo in the room. Attached photos show our work in progress.
They are pretty much what I was hoping for. They are well produced, with good color and shape. They were very easy to install. They really enhance the space. I am trying to think of other places where I might be able to use some more.
These tiles seemed to fit the bill. The price is a little more than I’d like to spend but the quality of the product has earned my respect. We installed in a room with a ton of “echo” and it helped tremendously. Looking to use in other rooms in the future.
The way the yellow pops and gives my living room that glow, couldn’t ask for anything better! (It even glows under special lighting)
The product is exactly as advertised, and so easy to install. Thank you for coming to my rescue!
I am in the military and we move pretty frequently, so we wanted to find a way to define our spaces without causing permanent damage to the house and then something that we could continue to take with us wherever we go. Perfect!
I wanted some color in my new home office since I'm there 8 hours a day for at least the next few months. These were great! I do a lot of video conference calls and get a ton of compliments and people asking where I got them.
We love your product. We are a yarn shop in Billings, Montana, and created a separate learning space. We needed something functional, but was good-looking, unique and easy to install FeltRight was perfect. Everything came precut according to our own design (and that was really easy too with your online planner tool.) Our only suggestion is to include more double stick squares.
We are so happy with the addition of our Felt Right design to our kitchen! We needed something to hang the artwork for 5 kids without taking away from the aesthetic of newly remodeled space. The tiles add some color and interest while helping with the echo that comes with hardwood floors. I found some really cute thumbtacks to use with the kids' artwork, too. The install was incredibly easy!! A measuring tape and a level was all I needed. I would definitely recommend this product and would certainly purchase more in the future.
We are so happy with the addition of our Felt Right design to our kitchen! We needed something to hang the artwork for 5 kids without taking away from the aesthetic of newly remodeled space. The tiles add some color and interest while helping with the echo that comes with hardwood floors. I found some really cute thumbtacks to use with the kids' artwork, too. The install was incredibly easy!! A measuring tape and a level was all I needed. I would definitely recommend this product and would certainly purchase more in the future.
I needed a solution for the area above a new cabinet and was wracking my brain on how to solve it. Saw an add online for feltright and gave it a shot. Great decision. Even when I made a mistake with my order, the Felters quickly and cheerfully solved it. Easy to install, looks grat. Prefect solution.
Our grandchildren live with us and we gave them the entry hallway to display their artwork and other items they are proud of. After a few years the tape was overwhelming the art. Felt Right was the perfect solution. As we display our Mardi Gras posters on this wall, we selected the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold outlined in black for the Felt Right wall. It looks great and the kids helped install it. So much better than tape everywhere! It brought organization to chaos!!
These felt tiles were just what my sewing area needed. They look great and allow me to pin up fabrics or patterns as I need. The tiles were very easy to hang. I had to cut around an electric outlet. Using a steel edge ruler and exacto knife that was easy too. Terrific product!
being an A/V enthusiast i know how great a dark background makes a picture look. Felt right tokes helped me achieve this without paint. it looks fantastic, but also had acoustical advantages over plan wall. I love it.
For a long time now, I have been trying to find a solution to display Disney Pins. I came across FeltRight and decided to give them a chance. My initial order was for just a simple hexagon in multiple colors, but it worked so well, and I needed more room, so I expanded on my original design. Both processes were easy. The installation was a breeze, and it is working well for the intended purpose. I highly recomend this product.
I bought these to help with the sound (echos) in our home office while in online meetings. It worked perfectly. A word of advice, if you're ordering the white (zinc) color, order some extras - they aren't all perfect. A number of them had threads of other colors in them that were too distracting to use. I'm sure any color other than white would hide these imperfections.
Better than I expected. Easy to apply. Good color, great texture, perfect as a decorative backsplash element.
This is the back wall of my new Murphy bed. The tiles were fun and easy to work with!
Here's a pic of our project. People comment on it all the time.
Installed these tiles to create panels in a music room. They work excellent to treat the walls that are parallel to each other. Reduces slap back echos effectively. Easy to design a modern looking panel with the available options.
