I moved from a small one bed room apartment to a fairly large two bedroom house in March. I'm paying dearly for that extra space, but for me it's worth it. The formal dining room doubles as my dance studio (it large with great hardwood floors.) It's great to have plenty of elbow room for for my BD partner and I to rehearse in, and inspires me to work on my solo pieces as well. In order to avoid shattering the chandelier with our cane work, we've moved our sessions into the living room lately.

I have no idea what other information you need, but feel free to contact me if you'd like more details.

Tammy

We made a dance studio for a friend by taking up the carpet in her family room and dining room. We then laid down composite flooring, added full length mirrors on two walls, and changed the lighting to ceiling lights (not chandeliers). Of course they owned the house, it was not a rental. She added velvet curtains to the doors for privacy. Plus a shelf above the mirrors for her contest awards and momentos.

Yes, we used to be General Contractors. LOL

I have two dance spaces in my house (it's a big old house & I live alone). One is the dining room, which is long & set up with furniture on either side but not the center; that makes for good space to travel, and things can be moved to create group practice space when we don't work at our studio.

The other is my real yoga/dance room. It's a converted trunk room (about 8'x10'), and I covered the hardwood with gym mat for cushion & so I don't need a yoga mat on the aged floor. It has mirrors for dance technique practice & is otherwise pretty much empty. I bring in my laptop when I want to work with videos.

Including a link to directions to make those big diy framed mylar mirrors would be helpful. I've often thought of trying them, but never have.