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What Sounds Do You Fall Asleep To?

This past weekend we managed to actually leave town and relax. We flew into Southern California to visit a few friends of ours. We were incredibly lucky to stay in a house right on the ocean. We fell ...

Outdoors In: Open Window Tips

One of our favorite ways to bring the outdoors in at this time of year is to throw open the sashes. Opening the windows is a favorite fair-weather practice because it instantly enlivens a space with...

Living Behind Scaffolding

Our apartment building, a relatively small four-story structure, is about to start undergoing restoration work to the facade. This will mean three months of scaffolding covering the front of the bui...

How Would You Like To Be His Neighbor?

Canadian inventor John Hutchison has had to deal with a few complaints about the state of his New Westminster, British Columbia apartment over the years. But the complaints aren't the usual for this...

Reader Survey: Right to Make Noise Complaints in a Known Noisy Neighborhood?

We were really bummed out when our favorite venue stopped having loud, experimental music and noise shows due to nightly complaints by one neighbor, a resident who lived in a nearby building. The club...

AT on... Street Noise

"All the noise, noise, noise!" I hate to quote the Grinch, but the prospect of sleepless nights is causing me to already have a few. See, my apartment search has led us to a beautiful, spacious apartm...

SF Survey: Street Noise or Neighbor Noise?

While working on our SF Good Questions: How Can I Reduce the Sound of Street Noise? earlier today, we realized that's it's not street noise that bothers us, it's neighbor noise. And we've lived next ...

SF Good Questions: How Can I Reduce the Sound of Street Noise?

Hi AT:SF, I have a studio apartment on Powell Street and it is so noisy here. I can hear everything from the street (cable cars, cars speeding up the street, fire trucks, police cruisers, etc.). The a...

Good Questions: Help with Soundproofing?

AT, I have a door dilemma!!! I will be sharing a small San Francisco in-law with another person, and there is no door between my room and the kitchen right outside it. I want something that will blo...