If you stand outside our studio on any given afternoon, you can hear the rumble and roar of the freight trains rolling through an open below-grade pass half a block from our building. This, along with the noise of the buses clambering up Charles Street and the boom of heels on the floor above, presented our first challenges in designing our studio. Not to mention the concerns our neighbors had of a bunch of crazy musicians playing all day and all night right next door. There were many times in the process of planning this renovation when we considered the possibility that we had lost our minds. This was one of them.

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