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How To Add Character To Basic Architecture: Unfinished and Raw Wood

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How To Add Character To Basic Architecture: Unfinished and Raw Wood

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It’s Monday, and before we get into today’s post. I wanted to give a MASSIVE and incredibly heartfelt thank you to everyone that came out to the Rummage Sale this weekend, the people, the atmosphere, and the energy that was there was more than we ever could have hoped for so thank you for making it such a special day.

Today we are back with another episode in our “How to Add Character To Basic Architecture” series. If you are new to the blog or the series be sure to check out “Wall Treatments” and “Ceiling Paneling” as today we are diving into options from both of those categories but using unfinished and raw wood. A lot of these may seem repetative from the last post but we wanted to dive even deeper into the series by offering up a ton of inspiration photos showing you how drastically a room can change when you give it (the walls and ceilings) a little bit of love. Bye bye neglected white, boring and bland rooms across America, let’s get into it.

Vertical Paneling:

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We will start with vertical paneling as it is probably the easiest way to add character to your walls. It can instantly transform the look of your bland walls into something special and unique. When it comes to vertical paneling this can be done fairly affordably with some options that your local hardware store will stock or you can really go for it with honed and beautiful wood like you see above and below.

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These wide plank options are typically going to be much more pricey than what you would find at your local hardware store (and by much more we mean A LOT more), but I mean, come one… the difference in appearance and quality is obvious. These houses are all stunning and filled with unique character due to that pretty wood on the walls that creates such a warm and subtle texture.

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The room below used wide panel planks to create an accent wall in the kitchen as well as in the dining room. By leaving the center wall white and without wood it gives the eye a visual break which allows the space to still feel modern and clean and not lean too “cabin”, “rustic” or “woodsy”.

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If the wide plank version is not your vibe or is way out of your price range then you can still get the same warm textured effect with simple vertical siding that has a more standard width of 6-8″ like the bathroom below. Without this addition of the wood the room would have felt cold, sterile and too modern, but by wrapping the wood on three of the walls it helps balance out the concrete wall and floor that are also in the room. Warm with cool – always a good combo and one that every room needs.

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While this post is about raw and unfinished options the pictures below were too beautiful to leave out even though it appears they have treated the wood with some sort of stain, lye, or whitewash treatment. The treatment helps to tone down the warmer undertones of the wood without completely taking away the texture and grain.

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You can also go more rustic with this application like they have done in the next few photos.

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Has the painted accent wall been replaced with the wood accent wall? The above and below pics really give the “accent wall” a strong case. And it is something that we WOOD definitely stand behind. (Forgive us… moving on).

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Horizontal Paneling:

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Much the same as the previous concept, horizontal wall paneling is a great option to add some character to your walls or ceilings. Horizontal paneling works especially well in smaller and more narrow areas where you want to visually increase the eye into thinking the space is larger than it is, like they did below. Just as it does with clothing, horizontal stripes (or paneling in this case) is going to elongate the area visually. Although we don’t have a tummy or some love handles to hide beneath a striped shirt we do have some not so appealing blank walls to hide so horizontal wood stripes to the rescue on this one.

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The refined versions of this paneling option helps to add warmth and a beautiful texture to the above room. And below the more rustic version (dare we call it shiplap) adds some major character to this vintage looking kitchen.

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This room and that wood is so beautiful. The tonal variation of wood is just about as soothing as that cozy bed looks.

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Wainscoting:

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So, what if you aren’t ready to commit to a wall or a ceiling full of wood. Well my friends, then wainscoting is for you. The term wainscoting refers to any type of wall treatment that goes a portion of the length of the wall. So while some people think wainscoting only involves beadboard or v-groove, this “a portion of the way up the wall method” can be used for any wall treatment and these rooms are really selling it.

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The above and below examples showcase it in a more modern way with beautiful simple wood and an unfinished edge at the top.

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And this room (wherever it may be) is very proud of how good its walls are looking with this beautiful treatment that it is sporting. They kept this one more modern and simple as well by keeping the top cap and the baseboard at the same depth as the wainscotting so that it all is one flush panel and doesn’t recess at all. Well done wall, well done.

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Ceiling Paneling:

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Moving on up to the ceiling, the same concept continues that we discussed in the last two sections. However, when you add wood to your ceilings it is innately going to make the room feel more rustic and woodsy unless you go for a really smooth finish with not a lot of variation.

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Typically yellow pine is not something that we would endorse in large quantities but this bedroom below is really selling it with those clad ceilings.

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Ceiling Beams and Paneling:

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If you want to take it one step further then not only do you clad your ceiling but you add some wood beams into the mix. Now, a disclaimer on this one. Wood beams in any room if not done right can look very much like an awkward afterthought and will end up hurting your space more than helping it.

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A few quick rules to keep in mind with this. 1) Does the style of the house dictate a wood-paneled ceiling and beams? If not, then maybe skip this option and go for one of the other options we have outlined. 2) Are the beams that you are adding, what would structurally make sense if they were, in fact, helping to hold up the structure? You will want to install said beams in a way that makes them look original to the house not in a way that says, hey look at me I am a faux Tuscan beam that is trying to fit in real hard. 3) Go easy on the distressing. We get that you want your beams to look original but don’t make them look like they came from the bottom of a river. Make it look natural and authentic to the house but no more and no less.

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The example above and below are perfect examples of how to do it well without overdoing it. They kept the additional beams to a minimum and also didn’t try to make it look like the house was a converted barn from the 1800’s.

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If cladding your ceilings with wood sounds a bit scary then there is the option to add it in just in one small area or niche. This home used it in this little sink niche area to add some character and it makes the ceiling line in that area feel so special.

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And if you are ready to get real experimental then you can try something like this below. Which really would only work in a modern space like this that is filled with natural light, tall ceilings and plenty of open space.

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Entire Room Paneling:

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So we’ve walked you through how to do it halfway up the wall, all the way onto the walls, and then how to do it on your ceilings. But what if you just want to go ahead and have no wood-grets and just throw that material all over every surface? Well then you get a collection of rooms that looks like these.

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Plywood:

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Hold the hammer, did we just title a category “Plywood” and are we actually recommending that you put it on your walls to add character? Why yes, yes we did and here is why.

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Plywood, when done in the right way and with the right quality of plywood can be very beautiful. We aren’t talking about your builder grade plywood that every DIY project is made out of. Instead, we are talking about a higher grade plywood like the ones you see in these pics. This type of plywood is going to have far less knots in it, have a more even tone and will also be smooth.

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Cladding your walls in huge plywood panels is a very modern way to instantly change the look of your room. Unlike the other options which lean both traditional and modern, this option skews more modern when it is installed due to the size of the plywood panels and the look that it provides.

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I would wash my hands in that washroom every day if I could and just stare up at the beauty of that plywood contemplating how long I could last until I caved and had to put a picture on the wall thus creating a big nasty nail hole in that beautiful plywood.

The room below used sheets of plywood and then at the vertical seams added a larger beam and at the horizontal seams added a small piece of moulding. A pretty clever way to install it that keeps the visual lines of the panels to a minimum.

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Talk about an accent wall. This room took it onto the wall and then all the way up onto the ceiling. It works here because everything else is kept simple and clean and because they pulled in some orange tones into the room to help bring that color of the plywood throughout the room design.

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Modern Wall Applications:

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If you have unlimited funds, are feeling very daring or really want to get custom with it then these last options are for you, which we have titled “Modern Wall Applications”. They are unlike any of the other options that we have pulled together thus far in the post and yet are some of the most impactful because the raw wood is really the statement piece in the room.

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Let us know if you have any questions on any of the applications below, and if you have tried and succceeded at adding nautral and raw wood to your walls/ceilings we would love to see any pics that you have. xx

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propertyhold · 8 years ago

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Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen.

This post is in partnership with National Gypsum Purple XP! #askforPURPLE

I feel like I tend to think a lot (overthink?) about the materials that go into a given renovation project. At this point, my brain is essentially trained to think about this stuff as I fall asleep every night: I picture a room I’m going to be working on, and then I toggle between combinations of beadboard and shiplap and beaded shiplap and tile and plaster and natural stone until my brain just sort of dissolves into a puddle and I drift off. The options are endless, so this method tends to be effective even when it takes hours to kick in.

One thing I never really thought about until very recently, though? DRYWALL. We all know it, we love it, we live with it, we might have even installed and/or finished it and/or patched it at some point. As a building material, it’s about as ubiquitous as 2x4s and nails…both of which I’m pretty sure I could come up with a few compelling things each to say about, but ask me about drywall? It’s…drywall. It’s what the walls are made of. What else do you want from me?!

Until very recently, a piece of drywall has been a piece of drywall in my mind. Some of it’s grey. Some of it’s green. Some is 3/8″ thick. Some is 1/2″. Some is 5/8″. But really, it’s all pretty much the same. Right? RIGHT???

NOT RIGHT. WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I’m often wrong. It’s one of my many charms.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel down to Charlotte, North Carolina to learn all about drywall with the folks at National Gypsum Company. National Gypsum has a fascinating history: they’ve been producing drywall since 1925, the production of which is still done entirely in North America. As I learned, the United States is naturally rich in gypsum—the main ingredient in drywall—which I suppose is part of why drywall was adopted so quickly and has remained the standard wall and ceiling material in this country for almost a century. At least in the States, it’s almost unimaginable to do any interior renovation or construction project without it.

More or less, here’s what drywall is: a slurry of powdered gypsum, water, and starch, between a couple sheets of paper. The slush dries and hardens and then it’s drywall! After hanging it onto your studs, the seams are taped and “mudded” with joint compound to create a seamless, flat surface that can be painted.

Fun fact: did you know (I did not know) that National Gypsum is one of the biggest recycled paper manufacturers in the country?? The papers that coat the front and the back of drywall have been produced by recycling old magazines and newspapers and cardboards since the 1960s! Before it was cool! I dig that. They’ve never especially made a point of this in marketing their products, but I think it’s so awesome!

Another fun fact: some of the gypsum used in National Gypsum’s drywall is mined from the earth, but a lot of it is actually synthetic gypsum, which is chemically the same compound. The cool thing about synthetic gypsum is that it’s essentially a manufactured by-product of other manufacturing processes, capturing stuff that would otherwise pollute the air and instead turning it into a useful material. What happens is coal-fired power plants work with National Gypsum to enact a flue gas desulfurization process in their coal stacks—basically allowing National Gypsum to clean their emissions before they go up into the air by combining Sulfur Dioxide in the emissions with lime (Calcium Carbonate) which forms pure gypsum through the !!!MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY!!! So that way, the emissions get way cleaner and emerge from the stack mostly as steam, and National Gypsum gets a lot of gypsum to use in drywall that we put in our houses. I just thought that was super cool.

ANYWAY.

Like most renovation-inclined folks, I rely heavily on drywall…so I’m not sure why I never took the time to really consider what type of drywall I was using. I have a lot of gutted spaces in my life right now (let’s think…my kitchen, the room above my kitchen, my 1/2 bath, soon my laundry room, the entirety of Bluestone Cottage—which, yes, is still happening—this other house I started renovating last week, another couple in the pipeline…let’s stop before the panic sets in?), and most of them will need a lot of drywall. And I have to confess something: I’ve pretty much always bought 1/2″ lightweight drywall and never given it another thought. I neither love it nor hate it, but I’ve tried to work around the realities of it by doubling up layers of 1/2″ drywall and skim-coating the whole thing to mimic the look and feel and sound-proofing qualities of plaster, which has been ok. But that’s really because I had no idea there were better products out there that already pretty much do that. WHICH IS SO EXCITING! Those products are called PURPLE XP and they feel so right. Also I really like writing PURPLE in all caps, like I’m screaming about it because I AM.

Taking a step back, let’s think about lightweight drywall for a second. Over the past decade or so, the market has largely dictated a huge rise in the popularity of lightweight drywall—which is a fine product, but also one with better alternatives. As one member of the National Gypsum team put it to me, “the only way to make lightweight gypsum board is to take the gypsum out of it,” which is essentially what all drywall manufacturers have done. Less gypsum, and more…bubbles! Quite literally, in order to make lightweight drywall, the gypsum-water-starch mixture in the core of drywall is cut with soap to create bubbles, which harden to a board filled with tiny air pockets where there would otherwise be gypsum. Of course, this leads to a product that’s less sturdy, less sound-proof, and has lower insulation value than a denser drywall board. Is this what we really want on our walls? I want my walls dense and solid and sturdy! If you really think about it, the only person lightweight drywall benefits is the contractor who buys and hangs it…so if you don’t Ask for Purple, that’s what you’re more than likely to get. It may have to be ordered at your hardware store of choice, but you can also find retailers here. Just ask!

So now that we have that cleared up, what is this magical PURPLE XP? For starters, it’s what National Gypsum flew my ass down below the Mason-Dixon to discuss. It’s a line of drywall products. There are several different ones, and they each have their own drywall superpower. National Gypsum can probably explain this better than I can, but that’s never stopped me before from trying to stumble my way through talking about things I just learned about with feigned authority. Here goes.

What makes PURPLE XP, well, purple? Dye. Dye and clever marketing. Ha! But it’s the only purple drywall out there, so when you see it (and now that you know about it, I promise you’ll start seeing it!), you’ll know there’s actual awesomeness behind the color. First of all, ALL the PURPLE XP drywall is mold and moisture resistant (XP stands for “extra protection” and don’t ask me why it’s not “EP” because I’m only one person with only so much knowledge). It’s also all Greenguard certified for indoor air quality, which is a huge priority of mine up until the moment I inevitably start spray-painting something inside in the middle of winter and get high off fumes. Anyway, I aspire to high indoor air quality standards, and luckily it’s built-in with PURPLE.

There are four main types of PURPLE XP and they’re all totally cool:

1. PURPLE XP! Here is me in front of an enormous tower of it at the plant. YEAH, I GOT TO GO TO THE PLANT. Jealous?? Thought so. It was awesome. I love a factory tour.

PURPLE XP is basically your all-purpose PURPLE drywall and can be used anywhere, but especially anywhere where mold or moisture are even vague concerns/considerations. As a person with mold allergies who has also torn out my share of moldy drywall, I would absolutely use this in a whole house top to bottom. Except for where I wanted to use…

2. PURPLE Hi-Abuse XP! See that machine up there? I drew a handy arrow pointing toward the important part, which is a super rigid steel-bristled brush with a big weight on top of it, and its whole job is to scratch things really hard over and over again. There are actual machines for this! You go, little scratchy machine.

So on the left you have PURPLE Hi-Abuse XP and on the right you have regular lightweight drywall. Both went through the same test, and you can see that the brush didn’t even get through the PURPLE paper all the way whereas it literally dug through the normal drywall. Nuts! I am clumsy and constantly renovating, so I often accidentally scratch something against the walls when carrying materials around or tools down to the basement. I can totally see how awesome this would be in a space like an entryway or hallway or mudroom that might otherwise get scratched up. Rad.

3. PURPLE Hi-Impact XP. And hey look, it’s Kim! Hello Kim! But the point of this picture is not how adorable Kim is, it’s what she’s checking out, which is a sample of the fiberglass mesh that runs through the entire sheet of Hi-Impact XP drywall. Maybe you have a terrible temper and tend to kick and punch the walls? If so, seek help. But also seek better drywall, in the form of Hi-Impact XP because it is SO STRONG.

It looks like I’m pretending in this picture but I swear it’s real! They let us try this fun thing where we got to hit a hanging Hi-Impact board with this wooden bat, with the goal of making a hole. I have demoed lots of drywall in my life. I have accidentally made holes in drywall in my life. I couldn’t do it! It’s seriously intense.

That being said, it’s still drywall! It’s designed to withstand impacts like errant hockey pucks, the end of a pool cue, some bro’s angry fist, but it hangs just like drywall with regular screws and you can still hammer a picture hook into it and all that stuff.

4. PURPLE Soundbreak XP. The drywall that cannot really be appreciated in photographs but HOLY COW I’m so BEYOND happy to know this exists and to use it. It’s the one I’m most excited about, and makes me want to replace every stitch of inferior drywall in my house with this.

See how that image kind of looks like two sheets of drywall? It’s not—what you’re seeing in the middle there is a thin layer of special super magic stuff that’s designed to absorb and dissipate noise. And it works stunningly well. At the National Gypsum Technology Innovation Center, they have a little closet for demonstration where one side is finished with regular drywall and the other side with Soundbreak, and then they have speakers outside of each respective side that play loud sounds so you can hear the difference on each side. The difference is HUGE!

So, of course this would be great for multi-family buildings, nurseries, home theaters, wherever your teenager holds his jam-seshes with that friend who thinks he’s Led Zeppelin, that kind of thing, but my brain immediately went somewhere else that I find much more exciting. One of the best things about old plaster walls is how well they insulate noise—I really believe that you can often stand in a room and just feel whether it has plaster walls vs. drywall ones, just from how the sound reverberates and travels between rooms. Does this not seem like the PERFECT solution to addressing that difference?? I have a feeling I’m going to be dealing with a LOT of Soundbreak XP in the future…it makes me want to put up drywall RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

Thinking about my kitchen (well, the room that was once and will someday again be my kitchen…yikes), I think I’m planning for tile around the room from baseboard to about 5′ high, and then drywall above that up to the ceiling, where I’m leaning hard toward beadboard! Since it’s not a space that sees direct water contact (like a shower or something), I’m planning on using PURPLE XP under the tile and Soundbreak above it. Evidently tile + Soundbreak is somewhat pointless because essentially the sound waves don’t penetrate the tile (physics, or something), so that’s why I think mixing products makes sense here. If all goes according to plan, the Soundbreak will make up for the fact that there’s no more plaster left in this shell of a room. Obviously there’s just a littttttle work to do before hanging drywall can happen, but I’ll keep you in the loop on how it goes down!

Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen. syndicated from findqueenslandelectricians.wordpress.com

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propertyhold · 8 years ago

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Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen.

This post is in partnership with National Gypsum Purple XP! #askforPURPLE

NOT RIGHT. WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I’m often wrong. It’s one of my many charms.

ANYWAY.

There are four main types of PURPLE XP and they’re all totally cool:

1. PURPLE XP! Here is me in front of an enormous tower of it at the plant. YEAH, I GOT TO GO TO THE PLANT. Jealous?? Thought so. It was awesome. I love a factory tour.

Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen. syndicated from findqueenslandelectricians.wordpress.com

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propertyhold · 8 years ago

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Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen.

This post is in partnership with National Gypsum Purple XP! #askforPURPLE

NOT RIGHT. WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I’m often wrong. It’s one of my many charms.

A few weeks ago, I had to opportunity to travel down to Charlotte, North Carolina to learn all about drywall with the folks at National Gypsum Company. National Gypsum has a fascinating history: they’ve been producing drywall since 1925, the production of which is still done entirely in North America. As I learned, the United States is naturally rich in gypsum—the main ingredient in drywall—which I suppose is part of why drywall was adopted so quickly and has remained the standard wall and ceiling material in this country for almost a century. At least in the States, it’s almost unimaginable to do any interior renovation or construction project without it.

ANYWAY.

There are four main types of PURPLE XP and they’re all totally cool:

1. PURPLE XP! Here is me in front of an enormous tower of it at the plant. YEAH, I GOT TO GO TO THE PLANT. Jealous?? Thought so. It was awesome. I love a factory tour.

2. Hi-Abuse XP! See that machine up there? I drew a handy arrow pointing toward the important part, which is a super rigid steel-bristled brush with a big weight on top of it, and its whole job is to scratch things really hard over and over again. There are actual machines for this! You go, little scratchy machine.

3. Hi-Impact XP. And hey look, it’s Kim! Hello Kim! But the point of this picture is not how adorable Kim is, it’s what she’s checking out, which is a sample of the fiberglass mesh that runs through the entire sheet of Hi-Impact XP drywall. Maybe you have a terrible temper and tend to kick and punch the walls? If so, seek help. But also seek better drywall, in the form of Hi-Impact XP because it is SO STRONG.

4. SOUNDBREAK. The drywall that cannot really be appreciated in photographs but HOLY COW I’m so BEYOND happy to know this exists and to use it. It’s the one I’m most excited about, and makes me want to replace every stitch of inferior drywall in my house with this.

See how that image kind of looks like two sheets of drywall? It’s not—what you’re seeing in the middle there is a thin layer of special super magic stuff that’s designed to absorb and dissipate noise. And it works stunningly well. At the National Gypsum HQ, they have a little closet for demonstration where one side is finished with regular drywall and the other side with Soundbreak, and then they have speakers outside of each respective side that play loud sounds so you can hear the difference on each side. The difference is HUGE!

Ask for PURPLE! The Best Drywall for My New Kitchen. syndicated from findqueenslandelectricians.wordpress.com

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