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In the Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate.

Post Subject: The real-state U-turn?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/29/2009

The more I looking and thinking about the pool of available idea and properties then more I come to a “ridicules” conclusion that I most likely will not find what I need and what I like. The point is that if I combine my requirement for not suspended floor, solid concrete walls, absence of neighbors, 900 sq feet of a single room, ability to do capital change in the building, proper neighborhood and many other non-audio requirement then I do not think suck a place will be easy to find. It is not to mention that whatever I might find I will be accommodating to the existing half-ass solution to what I need.

Last night I discussed this with a friend of mine and he pitched an interesting idea. He proposes instead of looking a relatively large house that would be able to convert a few rooms into one 800-1000 sq feet room to look for a small and inexpensive house on a larger lot where I would be able to build my own attached living room. Actually, the more I think about this idea that more it sound sane to me. I might find a nice little cute house of let say 1000 sq feet, then cut one wall off and attach my 1000 sq feet living/listening room. To render the projects like this will be not very expensive as it will be no pluming, no basement and no other things involved. Furthermore if it will be the room that is made according to my rules then it will be perfectly accommodated to what I need, with properly constructed amendments that I would like to have (which might even allow me to have the room itself smaller). It would be much ease to fine such a convertible house, I just need to do some research with zoning regulation and building permits. We were sitting and brainstorming what might be done and it appeared to me that it might be a VERY good direction to go. The room itself is a part of house and even for resale it might be hold own merit. For instance the side midbass horns entry into the room in case I need to abandon this property might be easily converted into side windows and sold to normal people…

Ok, now I need to find an architect-girlfriend. :-)

The Cat

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