Attractive room treatment is it possible?

My room is completely treated on all surfaces and hidden.

My problem is I get no credit for having an "audiophile room" because it looks completely normal :^).

The answer is yes, you can treat the room without it showing but you must start while the room is under construction or going for complete rebuild on existing space.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1022712214

The link is to images of my system here at Audiogon. The equipment can be seen and certainly the tall speakers, but other than a couple of small tube traps nothing shows.

start while the room is under construction or going for complete rebuild on existing space.
Mr Porter you room with gear are a dream for most of us. The problem is that most of us don't have the convenience with a new construction project and tearing down where we live to accomplish that dream room. My argument is with the industry not creating a more attractive room treatment. The many on the market and the diy done by most of us make us look like rejects from a funny farm. Padding and foam on walls just make's us look like we all have accuired a form of "OCD" and should be locked away at a Bedlam style asylum. I am hoping that the members on audiogon will take this post a little more serious and relize how important room acoustics and how much better the sound of their stereo's would take on in the right room. I know many have hit this post but I feel more should reply.

There are some "stealth" (relatively invisible) tweaks from Machina Dynamica which I have found excellent, but instead of the rolled eyes of your listening room visitors, you may have to disregard the derision of some naysayers here on Audiogon.
Even though it makes no conventional sense, check out the Brilliant Pebbles for room corners, the Clever Little Clocks for in-home placement (even though neither of mine actually tells the correct time), Tru-Tone duplex covers, and in my experience, the single greatest tweak for the money: Teleportation.
As any potential improvements relate to what you already hear, good and bad, this may require a bit of private email communication to learn how your room compares to those of satisfied users of any room treatments, whether they be conventional, esoteric, or even otherworldly.
I have also been in many conventionally treated listening rooms, and conventional treatments certainly work well, but "attractive" is not usually the best descriptive word for what has been placed in the room to optimize the sound.
The more esoteric room treatments can provide further benefit, even after the conventional, physically obvious, treatments have started to make things better.
The perception of sound is such an individual experience, and rooms so different, only rarely have different Audiogon members ended up owning exactly the same components, or equipment tweaks, let alone implemented the same room treatments.
I suggest the less visible ideas, if you are determined to avoid any disparaging comments from the non-audiophile community. Then you only have to deal with audiophile references to The Emperor's New Clothes. But, your ears will thank you, which is the best outcome.