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Re:Dear Architects: Sound Matters by djhn on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @04:43AM (#10811448)
Except if your sleep-awake cycle don't align. This goes horribly wrong if you are entertaining guests while your neighbours are trying to sleep, or the family upstairs is having children's saturday playtime while the doctor downstairs is trying to sleep off a 36-hour double night shift.
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Re:Dear Architects: Sound Matters by jakobegger on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @06:09AM (#10811631)
Read the comment again. Your room above your bedroom is your own living room. This means that the family upstairs having a party is your own family :)

Most modern buildings with concrete ceilings have little sounds transmission to the apartment above, the most annoying sound transmission is from footsteps to the apartment below. That's why that idea works so nicely.

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Re:Dear Architects: Sound Matters by djhn on Saturday January 02, 2016 @07:03PM (#10828691)
Oh, I see! The text layout confused me. I thought you meant the layouts are stacked so that identical apartments aren't exactly on top of one another, but shifted.
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