Creative Caffeine: Nashville Recording Studio

On the main floor of this no-expense-spared 2920 sq. ft. remodeled all-brick home in the historic district of East Nashville there are 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, an art gallery / sunroom, big open kitchen with stainless appliances and granite countertops, and a huge open living area with vaulted ceiling and wood-burning fireplace.

Oak hardwood and porcelain tile covers every square inch of floor space in the entire house, which sits on a 100’ wide double-sized lot filled with beautiful mature trees, as well as two large Japanese maples and other recent custom landscaping.

A new paved driveway leads to a large new paved parking area in back big enough to park all of your bands’ cars, and there’s a huge amount of room to build on to the house if needed in the future.  Everything is new or completely redone including HVAC system, roof, floors, walls, kitchen, walk, appliances, bathrooms, landscaping, driveway, front elevation, insulation, interior and exterior paint, as well as much of the plumbing and wiring.

Recording Studio Potential

The nearly 1200 sq. ft. lower level, finished to the same high degree of craftsmanship as the main floor, is the perfect setup for your own home-based recording studio, with very little needed to efficiently convert it to that use.  All the rooms are clustered around a large open area that will make a perfect control room.  Outside noise should not be a factor, as the street side is below grade and the house is built on a thick, concrete slab foundation.  So, sound insulation from external noise sources is not needed, while interior sound insulation will most likely be limited to the walls separating the control room and the tracking booths.  For sunshine lovers, however, there’s still plenty of natural light that streams in from the sound-insulated energy-efficient windows that overlook the back yard.

There are three adjoining rooms that can easily be used for isolation booths with one of them being more than big enough to accommodate a full acoustic drum kit. The second room is currently set up as an office, and it features a wall of built-in cabinets as well as a second wood-burning fireplace. The small third room, which measures about 80” X 80”, is perfect for a musician, amp isolation, and possibly a vocalist, or could be used for storage of all your gear, not that you would need it because of the abundance of additional closet space.

There is a full bathroom plus five very large closets on this level, four of which could be used as guitar amp booths or for storage.  One of the closets, built as a utility room, has a door opening size of 48” and dimensions of about 70” X 52”, plenty big enough to easily roll in a 2” analog machine and set it next to an analog mixdown machine.  That closet, and another one that is about 84” deep by 32” wide, adjoins the area where the mixing console would sit, so running a short snake or individual cables from either closet to your console is a snap.

The seller is a studio builder and owns one of the top commercial studios in Nashville.  He has expressed that he will be glad to convert this space to your specs at his actual out-of-pocket cost.  However, he believes that the space could be effectively used, as-is, for this purpose without modification or cost, if desired.  To see his studio, go to www.CreativeCaffeine.com.

Summary of Features

• 2920 sq. ft.
• All-Brick Exterior
• 5 BR / 3 Bath
• Completely Remodeled 2008
• Hardwood and Tile flooring throughout
• Granite Countertops and Stainless Appliances
• East Nashville Historic District
• Art Gallery / Sunroom
• Vaulted Ceilings
• 2 Fireplaces
• Double-Sized Lot
• 1200 sq. ft. Lower-Level Perfect for Recording Studio

Please call 615-438-1063 for more information or to setup a viewing. The appraisal on this house was done by Richard Maddux, Appraiser, and came in at $390,000. However, we need to sell quickly and have it priced at $274,900.