Black out cloth instead of paint?

cstmar01

So, I've been wanting to do something to my room to help out with the white walls that I'm stuck with.

I'm currently renting and it will be that way for a year or two more until I get more information as to where I'm going to end up for a job in a few years as it doesn't pay for me to buy a house to then just turn around and have to sell it.

Anyways, I tried to work with my land lord and ask if I could paint. They stated no because then if I did it and someone saw it, then have to let everyone do it blah blah.

So, I want to try and cover my front HT wall to make it dark and avoid light reflections. However besides painting not too many ways to do this.

My main idea was to use heavy black out material, however I then thought about seeing its a heavy damping material if this would then have an affect (negative) on the SQ in the room. I would be covering a pretty large area, The wall is about 15 or 17 ft wide with a 9 ft ceiling.

I don't want to kill the room as I know it would probably have to have some affect on the sound, but I also don't want to have the light reflections on the white wall.

Idea?

punk-roc

I've used some cheap, felt-like cloth from a fabric store to cover my windows in my bedroom when I used to work graveyard shifts.. it cost like $4 for 3 yards worth.. you could probably buy enough for a wall for like $8 to try it out

Jason

EndersShadow

I think you would be fine to cover the entire back wall with the black out cloth and that it should affect SQ in a negative way. If anything it will help with reflections.

Sherardp

Blackout cloth will do the trick. That or a set of curtains, which some people at AVS use instead.