The room where you place your DAW should have good accoustics. There are two ways to do this.
One, start with a room with good accoustics already. High ceilings and hard woodfloors make a good start. Hardwood floors are good enough. Tile floors and walls, like inside a 50s or 60s style bathroom, can have good natural reverb. (Think: singing in the shower) Wierd Al Yankovic recorded his first single in a bathroom because of the reverb inside. In a room with good accoustics, instruments sound loud but easy to hear. If your band is renting a house to do recording in, take an accoustic guitar from room to room and test the sound with your own ears. Cover windows with styrofoam or packing foam and see if that helps.
Or two, sound proof the room to eliminate bad accoustics or to keep oustside noise outside where it belongs. For a recording control room or office where you master audio for a final product, a sound proof room with neutral accoustics is better. Audio that sounds good in a neutral room (especially if it still sounds good in mono) will sound good in most rooms and most cheap speakers and car stereos, and even better on a good stereo. The old skool way of doing this is to use discarded egg cartons. You glue them flat up against the walls in grid from floor-to-ceiling. This actually works, but all it takes is one soiled egg carton your studio will forever smell like rotten eggs and sulphur. Here you thought it was that contract you signed at the crossroads with you-know-who, when all this time it was the egg cartons making your recordings stink like hell. Foam is better, thicker and harder foams are even better. You don't have to cover the entire wall either, unlike egg cartons. If you cover the entire wall, you risk the room sounding dead or flat. Cover at least the corners where two walls meet and the ceiling corners where two wall meet the ceiling. Put a square of foam in the center of each wall at about head level. The foam isn't needed below knee-level, so stop either at the tops of the electrical outlets or above the top of the desk. You're done when you can clap your hands and hear no echo, and also when outside noise doesn't loudly enter the room.
The third way is to cheat. Use all electronic, line level, or software instruments. Eschew microphones completely. Use headphones instead of monitor speakers. Bypass the suspect accoustics of your accidental studio completely by keeping all sound inside the computer and the ears God gave you. Recording vocals without microphones is left as an exercise to the reader. But you can divide the recording sessions up into no mic sessions for the instruments, mix, and production, and mic sessions done in a room with good accoustics, like somebody's bathroom...
Be sure to clap your hands in each and every bathroom from now on. And may you find good accoustics.