Sound waves vibrate the object they hit, producing more sound. However, when sound makes contact with porous surfaces, the sound gets trapped, muting a portion of the vibrations. Materials like foam felt and plastic can accomplish this reduced vibrational energy. Felt Right’s felt panels trap sound and reduce the noise in a given room.
You may not realize that many places already use sound dampening materials to improve their sound quality. Movie theaters, for example, line their walls with felt-like material covered in waves and bumps. This keeps sound in the theater where it originates and prevents it from bleeding into other theaters.
Libraries, auditoriums, and gyms also use sound dampening to improve their patrons’ experience. Reducing the vibrational energy within a room preserves its sound integrity and limits the distraction from outside noise.
Sound dampening is not the same as soundproofing. Soundproofing uses specific materials and techniques to prevent sound from escaping or entering a room. In these rooms, people usually can’t hear anything from outside the room.
Anechoic chambers have the highest soundproofing qualities in the world, absorbing 99.9 percent of all vibrational energies. In fact, these chambers absorb so much sound, no one has been able to last longer than 45 minutes inside. People describe being able to hear their blood flowing.
Most people aren’t looking for this type of sound reduction. Except for recording studios, very few of us need to eliminate that amount of sound from our environment. You’re most likely just looking to improve your sound control within a given room in your home.
Given the expensive nature of soundproofing, it’s impractical to install professional-level soundproofing in your home or office. Soundproofing requires extensive installation techniques and needs professional design. The average cost to soundproof a room is thousands of dollars.
One of the great benefits of sound dampening materials is their cost. Felt Right’s felt panels are constructed from recycled PET plastic, creating a thin, durable surface ideal for portable sound dampening.
Using these materials makes Felt Right eco-friendly for all of your sound damping needs. Our products help reduce soda bottles in the environment while creating a durable, affordable product.
Additionally, our products give you the option to customize your felt panel design. Create the design of your dreams and scale it to your room the way you see fit. Our design platform ensures that you can scale to your room, preventing you from spending too much or buying too little material.
Felt Right’s panels are also easy to install. If you’re committing to a DIY project, you want to preserve as much time and money as possible. Felt Right’s tiles are lightweight and small enough for anyone to install. They only use adhesive tabs and do not require screws, nails, or special tools. The adhesive is easy to peel, and you can buy more tabs as needed. Removal is also simple.
Most sound dampening products are functional, but few are both practical and visually appealing. Our customizable tiles ensure that you can add a new art installation to your home. With an array of colors and tile shapes, you can design patterns and shapes in limitless combinations. Dampen your sound while adding color to your room instead of having to choose one or the other.
Large Open Rooms
Large living rooms or family rooms can get loud. If you add children to the equation, they can become raucous. Wood floors are consistent favorites for these types of rooms. However, these floors tend to generate more noise and produce more echoes. Felt Right’s tiles can transform your long hallways and large open spaces with beautiful, sound dampening decorations.
Studies
Your study is supposed to be a place of refuge where you can focus. It should stimulate workflow and be a comfortable reading environment. Bringing Felt Right’s sound dampening into the study can add some vibrancy to your study without compromising its study-conducive properties.
Craft or Art Rooms
It’s easy to use Felt Right’s tiles as a pinboard in craft or art rooms. In these rooms, the sound may not be the primary issue. You may simply need an easy way to hang art pieces and crafts.
Kids’ Rooms
Creating fun designs for your child’s room can keep them entertained and ignite their imagination. Give them the space they need for a fun play area and help ignite their creativity by changing designs every once in a while.
Condos, Apartments, Townhomes
Close living quarters always make it challenging to preserve your home’s sound integrity. Whether caused by thin walls or loud neighbors, sound dampening may be attractive if you live in one of these locations. Felt tiles can help accomplish a quieter environment, making your condos, apartment, or townhome more enjoyable.
Dance Studios
Whether you own a dance studio or gym, preserving your sound can be a crucial part of providing an enjoyable experience to your patrons. Implementing our felt tiles will make it easier to hear instructors.
Restaurants
It’s easy to use Felt Right’s tiles to cultivate a welcoming environment. Our tiles will make it easier for patrons to hear each other when conversing over a meal, and when your restaurant gets busy, your servers won’t always have to ask their tables what they said when they’re ordering.
Office Space and Call Centers
Felt Right’s designs fit in any environment where sound preservation is an essential component. When you have multiple employees on the phone or dealing with customers, you want them to communicate clearly and direct their customers in helpful ways.
When your employees are in close quarters, it can be difficult to assist your customers adequately. Background noise can distract your employees from directing the customers in the best possible way. Felt tiles are a perfect solution for any company looking to make their work environment more productive.
Video and Podcasting
Creating the right environment for your podcast or video can be challenging. Whether you’re just starting or have an established platform, it’s always beneficial to upgrade your sound equipment, including your sound dampening materials.
I was looking for something to reduce echo in my zoom calls, and these really hit a great midpoint between good design, affordable, and getting the job done. They were easy to design and customize, easy to apply, and I think they really look great and work well.
Love the tiles and colors. Made my music room much better visually and sonically!
Love this addition to my sewing room. So easy to put up and I think it looks amazing!
When I saw these, I knew they would be just what my husband needed in his new home workspace. I ordered the sample set so we could decide colors and see the product. Used the samples as a gift for art instructor. We then ordered enough for a space above his desk, and installed them in 30 minutes. I was surprised that even an area of 2'X 4' would have any sound absorbing impact, but it really does. We ordered another round to continue on to the next wall. This is so perfect for working from home!
Easy to put up and so nice to have next to my desk for notes. It also looks great, I love the colors!
We are extremely pleased with both of our felt-right products. They look great and help quiet the sound in our very lively rooms.
Excellent product. Install was quick and painless, even though I had to cut the majority of the tiles for the space. I was surprised how thick and solid the tiles were. It was the perfect solution for my office desk cubby wall, which I stare at endlessly these days due to the home office situation.
I'm using my tiles for a design wall and a bulletin board. They were easy and fun to install. I had to rearrange the bulletin board section a few times due to my own stupidity, and the double-sided sticky squares were easy to remove and reposition with no damage to the painted wall or the tiles themselves. Regular cheap pushpins are fairly easy to insert into the material, which is high quality and will be much longer-lasting and better looking than a cork surface. I'm extremely happy with this purchase.
A cinch to install, this design filled a good part of a 17’ high wall. Helped the sound in the room too. I’m sure I’ll find other places that need these. 😉
This was easy to install and looks super cool. Not sure how acoustically helpful it is yet, but I love it.
I was looking for something to reduce echo in my zoom calls, and these really hit a great midpoint between good design, affordable, and getting the job done. They were easy to design and customize, easy to apply, and I think they really look great and work well.
I wanted a large bulletin board for my creative home workspace, but was unimpressed with my options when it came to traditional cork boards. The felt panels are high quality, super easy to mount, thick enough for pushpins, and comparable in price (or even less expensive) than the cork boards I was looking at in this size. Plus I was thrilled to be able to make a beautiful custom board in colors I chose! Couldn’t be happier.
This has been the perfect edition to my home office. Installation was very easy, and I loved being able to customize the colors of an existing design. Will definitely be purchasing some more designs in the future!
My 5th and largest project! I wanted to dampen the echo in the room and I was also careful not to compete with our lively rug. Love the result! I reworked my design a handful of times to include tiles we didn't use on prior projects, as well as to have the contrast I wanted. I also tried painting 3 of the tiles successfully (I tried a couple of different paints and techniques on the backside of the tiles; acrylic paint (the kind used to paint on canvas) with some water and an old toothbrush worked best. Water did not negatively impact the tiles at all.)
