Setting up a "quiet room"

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Just wondering if any of you have the facilities in your dwelling to set up a quiet room and how it has worked for you.

1. How much did it cost to set it up?
2. What kind of things do you have in your quiet room?
3. What are your rules about the quiet room?
4. Do you have music in there?

And finally, what do you actually do in there? Is it a place for contemplation, having a meltdown, getting away from your family, having a shutdown, doing work and so on......

Just gathering some personal data

Thanks everyone.

Mics

Well, my quiet room is the granny flat in my backyard, so it costs as much as the house rent.
I have a TV, exercise equipment, my mum's teddies, books and a bed. Oh my telescope is in there too for easy access.
Rule 1: keep door closed at all times (for telescope's safety) and I have to remember to close the screen door. You know how you can adjust it so it just stays wide open? Well last time I didn't adjust it properly to close it and there was a storm which made the screen door never close again. Mum yelled at me, because of course I was the one responsible for 170km hr winds.
Music? Yes, sometimes. I pretty much just listen to my ipod, but I could bring a cd player in there and listen to some tunes.

It's more of a get-away-from-everyone recreation room.

I have a quiet room of sorts. I just lock myself in the bathroom. I either meditate, read, sleep or just have a lie down depending on my needs. Sometimes I'll do some yoga or other exercise in there. It cost me nothing.

My apartment is my quiet room. I have my laptop, my Wii, which I'm typing on, right now and my music. I never watch TV, unless the summer or winter Olympics are on. TV reminds me too much of what I see in the streets, so I don't bother to watch it.

That's really interesting. I've never thought of it like that. It brings the outside in.

I have a meditation space where nothing else really encroaches. It's kind of an alcove off the bedroom rather than a room unto itself. Sometimes I play Buddhist chanting there. I also have a room that's sort of my special interest room. I keep my books and computer and special interest stuff in there. If I need time alone in either of these two places, I just say so and I am left alone. The special interest room isn't really a quiet place though because it's filled with all the stuff I've been absorbed in. Because of that, it can actually get a little overwhelming for me to look around and see all those interests at once. I've considered throwing a lot of it out....but ugh...it's so hard.

We have one each. My "office" - upstairs in what used to be my mother-in-law's house. Before she died I had a room builtg in our shed. My wife has the room at the top of the stairs in the main house that used to be my office before the shed office. While living at home our son used his music studio at the otrher end of the shed.

No formal rules - but we do not move in on the otrher's space with out good reason and lots of notice.

Cost was minimal - really no special equipment. The place is big enough and we are all that way so we do not need soundproofing and all.

In my teens, I spent lots of time in the woods; at home I had the room with the porch off it; I kept my door closed and could retreat to the porch if it was not too hot or cold. But my mother was not hasppy about it and did not recognize such a thing as a need for privacy.

What goes on? Prayer, work, reading, writing, music, musing. And plain recharging.

my bedroom is my quiet room. although i live by myself in a flat, i have 3 cats. when i need to be on my own without having to attend to anything else, i go into my bedroom. it has an ensuite bathroom, a comfy bed, lots of pillows and a pile of books.

There's an outdoor room at my house, I go in there where I have a coffee table, chair and some books. My strictest routine involves that room...

It is nice though, to have a place to relax.

The closest thing I have to a quiet room is my school's quiet room, to be honest.

I would assume alot. 2 Couches, 2 "comfy chairs"/modern rocking chairs, a work area with computers, various desks, tables, chairs, whiteboards etc.



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Well, for the School's Quiet Room, not many... "Discipline" was to be one, but the rules are laxly enforced.



No.

Thanks everyone for your replies......

I am going to organise my spare room into a quiet room and make it totally awesome and personal......just going to collect stuff over time to put in it. It will probably be so overloaded with stuff that I will not even be able to get into it. I want a "magical cave"

Need a place to be able to get away from my family, write, think, defragg, unravel, and not watch TV......I agree with the poster about TV.

Mics

Nice one... I definitely sure do need a quiet room myself, unfortunately I don't have one since I have 3 siblings and I don't have a room for myself.

I definitely would also go with TV also, since the quiet room is created by you, go with the flow and go with the stuff you feel you want to put in there.

If you wanted to turn it into Narnia, you have done a good job of that.

1. Sometimes it doesn't have to cost anything to convert it into the quiet room, just use the stuff you don't really need in your room to go into the spare room, if not, I have no idea and for me I don't have a quiet room since the house is full up and there is hardly any quiet space for me.

I can only answer one since I don't have quiet room... But I do certainly need music if I did have one.


- superboyian

I've never thought of defragging my mind but that's almost exactly what meditation is.

Supoerboyian > I don't have one since I have 3 siblings and I don't have a room for myself.

I was top dog of 5. Even with my own room MOST of the time, "Quiet space" was difficult. You learn to improvise.

For me, a lot of time in the woods. A lot of time in quiet obscure corners of the museum and the library. Walking the empty corridors at school before other people started to arrive. Pacing up and down between buildings in between classes.

My bedroom is my "quiet" room most of the time. Sometimes someone knocks on the door, for no other reason than to make useless smalltalk.

The room has everything a bedroom normally has: bed, dressers, decor.
It also has full carpeting, lots of books, television, stereo system, laptop, mini-fridge, and my "Goodie Shelf".
The window is covered by a heavy blanket to keep the room very dark at all times when the light is not on.

I guess it would cost as much as decorating a bedroom would cost. But we got the furniture, stereo system, and TV for free, and all the bedding came from thrift stores or was recieved as a gift. Same thing with most of the decor and books.
I paid $1300 for the laptop, after we added up the warranty and add-ons and everything (IT WAS WORTH IT!), and we only paid $100 for the mini-fridge, because it was on sale. It was the nicest one they had, too!
My most precious items on my goodie shelf (black holes, universe, vortex, gravities, quartz) adds up to about $950. Totally unneccesary, but worth it, because it is my longest-running and most intense special interest.

Lotsa money and lotsa time saving up to create the sanctuary.

But it's still not perfect yet because the people I live with just cannot comprehend the fact that I like long periods of uniterrupted quiet solitude. This problem will be solved when Crane and I finally get our own house.

I actually used to do that, I would used to do that, even up to now, I just out of the blue just love to walk outside to the garden, that's practically the only space I was available to go to or sometimes especially in the winter, I tend to actually for some reason isolate myself from the other siblings just to get abit of space and quiet.

So there is after all good alternatives.