How do drapes, furniture and carpeting help make a room quiet?
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sound is a series of vibrations. That is how we hear things. If you yell out in a long hallway you'll hear your echo because your sound is being bounced all over the place by the rigid walls. Couches, drapes, and carpet are not as rigit as say, a cement floor. When your sound hits your couch, it does not bounce as much as it is absorbed by the couch. The couch itself actually vibrates just a tiny tiny bit as a result of your sound and absorbs the noise. If you don't have something soft to absorb your sound it is easier for it to be bounced around and echoed.
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just get a a cardboard paper with adhesive glue (the kind used for building) put it around your room, but be careful you dont march on it!! once people's feet get glued to the cardboard a couple of times they'll stop disturbing you!
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set it up in your room closet is the booth put some accoustic foam on the walls and your good
255794
You might need an interior designer.  If you can't afford one, I'd say you need to go as close to natural lighting as you can.  Get full spectru, bulbs and keep the windows free of clutter.  Carpets should be low pile, so as not to harbor all kinds of grotty things.  Vacuum it EVERY day.  Plants like ferns are best.  Nobody should get sick from them. Shelves are best if adjustable.  Technology is very important.  Be sure to have al program that accesses other libraries so you can borrow from them (Inter Library Loans.) \nAll the best.
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None, I find it distracting and can study much better in a quiet place.
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i can sleep in silence......so i have a humidifier, and it has a pleasant hum....I NEED THAT NOISE!!!!\n\n\n=)\n\nWe are alike in more ways!!!!!! lol
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Wear gloves.\nUse a humidifier.\nGet rid of carpeting.\nCarry a wet towel.
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Keep room clean. That includes vacuuming and dusting putting own clothes away. At least taking laundry downstairs and sorting.. \n\nDishes helping set table clearing...
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Use earplugs or just cover up your head and continue to sleep. There  is always a way to get around noise when you are sleeping. If that dont work go to bed early so that it wont bother u so much when your borther gets up and gets ready for school
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Which word you use depends on exactly what you mean.\nIf you mean that a variety of furniture is a help in general\n(because it make color schemes easier,  or any dishes go \nwith the furniture,  etc.) then furnish is the better word.\n\nIf you mean it is easier to physically  place the furniture around \nthe room(perhaps because of size constraints), then arrange is the better word.
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just get some where were it is very quite and if that doesn't work try getting some where and playing some soft lite not loud music that is relaxing. \nhope this helps
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rearranges the furniture
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a box fan works great a small fountain or even a fish tank with a water filter heavy curtains and rugs. also weather strip around doors and put a door guard will help on noise and cooling and heating bills.
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Ask her if she could make it a point to come in a little quieter.  Have separate bedrooms.  Put your foot down and tell her it's unacceptable.  Leave her.
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1) COmb your hair if you ever do it :-) and get  some paper peices that r very small beside you .. When you touch your comb that is very well done with your hair to the paper pieces they cling to it .....\n2) walk wid your wollen sleepers on your carpet a lot and later doing this stuff like a mad hold a metal piece that can b a door lock or something you will get a shock depending on your work intensity
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Put a TV, and computer monitor on the ceiling.\njust kidding, roll over to the nearest light source and turn it off and on at a constant rate.  hopefully someone will see it through a window.
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It's not dust, although that is a contributing factor.\n\nAll computers, desktops and laptops, hum to a certain degree. The higher performance it is, the more quiet it is (often). The humming you hear is your computer working, and as it works it gets hot, which makes a little fan go off to prevent fires in your computer. If your laptop has been on a while then it will almost certainly hum, also if you're running high-memory processes like games or big files. That goes double if your laptop is older or entry-level.\n\nWhat you can do is: \n- buy a new laptop. (don't reccommend, although you can get one for $600 from Dell)\n- put the laptop on a soft, sound-absorbing surface (think placemats, blankets, mousepads, anything like that, the thicker the better)]\n- upgrade RAM to make things easier on your laptop. You can buy 512MB of RAM for about $49, make sure you know the right kind to buy and the right brands (I reccomend Kingston Technologies).\n\nhope i helped.