These dedicated homes with recording studios offer unmatched creative freedom and total control over your artistic process. Unlike a makeshift bedroom corner or under-stairs cupboard, a dedicated space for recording your sound can transform your lifestyle. Whether you use it to record music, voiceovers or podcasts, having a specialised studio steps from your living space unlocks significant benefits.
Creative Freedom
It allows you to act upon instant inspiration, capturing vocals, song melodies or podcast episodes the exact second you have a brainwave. There is no cost or time pressure on your creative output either, allowing you to spend as much or as little time on your project as you wish.
A creative oasis concealed in the middle of the Chelmsford countryside, this enchanting barn conversion comes with a secret recording studio.
Traditionally the barn for Haslers Farm, a local agricultural holding, the property was tied to the region’s local heritage of the Haslers, who were prominent corn and seed merchants based in Great Dunmow.
Now converted into a marvellous lateral family home and equipped with a full recording studio set-up, this is a wonderful opportunity to continue your creative passion or work from home without compromising your lifestyle.
The principal bedroom has been converted into a full studio set-up, designed and constructed by Miloco Studios, a world-class company, and is featured on their studio website.
The studio is acoustically treated and meticulously tuned to provide a remarkably flat and detailed response, and is equipped with air conditioning and a fresh-air ventilation system. In addition, there are audio and digital tie-lines connecting the studio to the living room, allowing for seamless recording between the two spaces.
However, the studio does not need to be kept solely as a recording facility. It would also be perfect as a creative area for content or podcasting, a private audio listening hub, or a home cinema.
£1,000,000 – click here to explore Little Waltham, Chelmsford, Essex.
Financial Advantage
It eliminates booking fees by replacing expensive commercial room rates with free, unlimited hours. There is also the potential for monetisation by renting out your recording studio space to other clients.
A beautifully finished thatched semi-detached home, whimsically placed in the heart of Kingsbury, NW9. Created by famous local architect Ernest Trobridge, well known for his eccentric and distinctive building style, this fairytale cottage has all the features that evoke a sense of serenity rarely seen in London today.
Entering into a Hansel and Gretel world, this three-bedroom thatched home is packed full of nostalgic features that arouse your inner child and has a self-contained former recording studio on the lower ground level, currently utilised as a separate one-bedroom flat.
This is a completely separate flat that could be rented out, used as separate family accommodation or, preferably, restored to its former musical heritage. Rumour has it that Mike and the Mechanics wrote and produced “In the Living Years” here, as there was a lineage of recording studios in Buck Lane back in the 1980s.
There is also potential to convert the garage into a separate studio or home office, with separate access from the front of the home.
£825,000 – click here to explore Buck Lane, London, NW9.
Optimised Production Environment
It allows you to have a space that is completely tailored to your own acoustic needs, with your desired desk layout, equipment racks and instruments safely stored but easily accessible. It means your work can stay consistent with your sound because your environment never changes.
Quietly tucked away from the wider world, Windy Ridge is a beautifully constructed 1920s detached home that was built by eccentric local architect Ernest Trobridge. This is a wonderful project sitting on a larger-than-average plot that was formerly two houses.
Sitting slightly out of sight, there is a former music performance and recording studio, which in a past life featured a host of big industry names. There is huge potential to renovate it into a fully kitted-out studio, with two recording booths, a performance area and a kitchenette with plumbing and waste.
A wider variety of opportunities is also possible, but it would be quite special to restore it to its former musical heritage.
To the front, there is a brick-built garage in need of demolition. This could be rebuilt as a carport, additional studio accommodation or merely left as lawn.
£825,000 – click here to explore Windy Ridge, Buck Lane, London, NW9.
