When you need to dampen the acoustics in a room, you have to do something actively. If you want a little dampening of reverberation, you can buy a rug, hang curtains, or hang a painting on the wall. If you need a greater dampening of the sound, you have to more concretely use acoustic panels or acoustic boards. Acoustic boards provide the greatest improvement in reverberation and more actively change the sound in the room. In new constructions, where ceilings are high and built with concrete, steel, and glass, the acoustics can become very harsh, and you have to focus on acoustics with the interior design to create a cozy atmosphere.
When using acoustic panels to dampen reverberation, you should focus on the placement and size of the acoustic panels. The more of the wall the panels cover, the more effective they are. Since the acoustic panels are going to take up space in the room, you might as well make them look nice. Therefore, I have developed a series with art printed as acoustic pictures specifically for this purpose. See my selection of acoustic panels with art.
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Acoustic pictures are both decorative and functional. For acoustic pictures to work, it primarily depends on how much space they cover on the wall. Whether it's several smaller panels or a few large ones is not as important. It's the total area that counts.
My acoustic pictures are printed with the finest HD UV-print technique. This means that they can withstand sunlight without fading. The panels are made with a class A sound absorption. The acoustic panel is made of glass wool with a structured surface. It is the structure that makes the panel good at absorbing sound. Glass wool is a fantastic natural sound absorbent and is environmentally friendly, as the material is fully recyclable. Glass wool is fire-retardant and a hygienic solution, as the material, despite its structure, does not provide a breeding ground for microorganisms.
When you mount acoustic panels on the wall corresponding to 15% of the floor area, you can expect about 60% improvement in the room's acoustics. One square meter of acoustic panel is as effective for noise reduction as approx. 15 square meters of carpet. Therefore, it is important that you get something of size so that it covers a part of the wall. The hanging also matters. Noise reduction works best when hung on the wall at the height the sound comes from. That is, around head height when we, for example, are a larger party at the dining table (most noise sources emit sound horizontally). Choose a hanging where the acoustic dampening is relatively close to where the sound comes from.
Read more about acoustic art for sound dampening here.