New studio build, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, progress pics

Hey everyone. Got the keys to my new place and I've started the build! Here's some pictures: Overhead Plan: Before taking walls down: After: I've got my joiner and electrician friends arriving tonight to start work on rebuilding the place. Any last minute tips??

Any last minute tips??

Well, seeing that it is supposed to be a studio, you might want to consider isolating the rooms from each other, and from the outside world too! That usually is a basic part of studio construction, yet there isn't any isolation at all evident, either on your plans or in your build. Is there any reason you didn't consider that before you started building? - Stuart -

There is isolation from the outside world. All the walls are brick and I'm building a second wall for the outside facing wall (on the bottom of the design picture). I desided not to isolate between the control room and the live room because of lack of budget. There's a standard double glased house window between the rooms which I got for free. I would not be able to afford the materials for another wall and proper window.

There is isolation from the outside world. All the walls are brick and I'm building a second wall for the outside facing wall (on the bottom of the design picture).

To be honest, you might as well save your money by not building that wall too. Sound from outside will simply flank around it, through the other walls, floor, ceiling, windows, doors, other rooms, etc. That wall is not going to make much of a difference at all, despite what you might think. Studio isolation is an "all-or-nothing" proposition. You have to do all of the walls, and the floor, and the ceiling, and the doors, and the windows. You cannot successfully isolate a room by just putting up a single leaf on one wall, any more than you can build an aquarium by putting only one sheet of glass in the frame! Fortunately, you already have brick walls, so they will give you some isolation from the outside world, but you only have a single leaf all around you. So your isolation will be something like STC-50, plus or minus a few points. Not bad, but it could be much better, and that's assuming that all of the doors and windows in the building are as good as the walls, which is very unlikely. Most probably, your isolation is going to be limited by the doors and windows in the building, and by the ceiling. Perhaps STC-thirty-something is what you'll get, or maybe forty-something if you are really lucky. It also seems rather pointless to use that double-glazed window. Firstly, it won't gain you very much in terms of isolation between your rooms, since the walls, doors and ceiling most likely aren't up to the same level, and in any case the window itself might end up resonating, and won't offer you any low-frequency isolation anyway, since it is made from ordinary thin window glass with a tiny air gap, not made from thick laminated glass over a very large air gap, which is what you really need. - Stuart -

Ok I hear you. The only thing that I had forgot to consider is the ceiling. The other walls and doors should be a little better than what you are thinking as there is 2 doors before you get outside. Surely having this extra door and porch area will do a bit? Any part of the wall that is before the secondary door is brick also. The floor is not an issue as it's industrial lino right on top of concrete. Pretty solid. I've put the brick walls as blue: What do you think? I have good access to the top side of the ceiling so I'm going to look into sound isolation for that. Thanks for the help. It's really appreciated. :)

I bet when a drummer hits one snare in the other side, you'll hear it like he is almost in the same room I'm sorry to tell you, but the isolation on your studio BETWEEN rooms, its going to be, very, bad