Our house gymnasium is lastly completed, and I’m completely thrilled with the way it turned out! It’s slightly completely different from the opposite rooms I’ve accomplished in our home as a result of, whereas I used numerous vibrant and enjoyable colours on this room, I additionally used a complete lot of black. This combo wouldn’t work for me in a lounge or different “public” area in our house, however I feel it’s the proper combo for a Kristi-style house gymnasium. The colours on the partitions let me benefit from the shade I really like a lot, whereas all the black retains it from trying to juvenile or girly, which makes it an ideal area for Matt as properly. (However he likes all the shade, too.)
So let me provide you with a fast tour across the completed room, after which I’ll return and present you some earlier than and after footage so we will see how far this room has come.
I’ll begin with my favourite nook within the room, which is the nook with my Bellicon rebounder. I’ve the 49-inch traditional with the screw-on legs, T-bar deal with, and commonplace mat.
In the event you’ve by no means tried out a Bellicon, it’s a complete completely different world from the spring rebounders that you simply get at your native sporting items retailer. My mother gave me this as a “thanks” for remodeling her kitchen in early 2020, and it’s by far my favourite piece of kit in right here.
To the best of the rebounder is our Swedish ladder (a.okay.a., stall bars) which I purchased from The Beam Store. Our is the 78″ x 28″ mannequin, and to make it match the remainder of the wooden within the room higher, I sanded and stained the bars with a walnut stain. And hanging from the highest bar of the Swedish ladder is our TRX suspension coach. We now have the TRX Home2 System.
The closet space of the room has two full-length mirrors, a TV, the Walmart dresser (which got a makeover here), and a few black wire shelves from Home Depot. The cabinets maintain my Bosu ball, an 8-pound medicine ball, additional bungees for my rebounder, the air pump for my Bosu ball, and many others.
In that nook of the closet, I even have a 20-pound barbell and (my favourite) a Bowflex SelectTech kettlebell. And naturally, my absolute favourite factor within the closet is the “Sweat The Crazy Out” neon sign, which I ordered within the 30-inch gold yellow shade, however I’m fairly positive they despatched me orange as a substitute. It was a contented accident, as a result of I feel the orange is ideal!
Lined up in entrance of the closet space, from left to proper, is (1) a DB Method squat machine, (2) Matt’s Theracycle exercise bike (a motorcycle particularly made for folks with Parkinson’s and different neurological issues), and (3) my WaterRower. I’ve the WaterRower Classic in American Black Walnut.
And at last, on this nook of the room, I’ve a basic flat bench and a set of dumbells.
So there’s the very primary overview and fast tour of our new house gymnasium. Let’s check out some earlier than and after footage!
Once we purchased the home, this room was nothing however wooden — wooden floors, wooden partitions, and wooden ceiling.
We had all the paneling eliminated and new drywall put in. And with the intention to sq. up the room to the best of this one in order that we may flip it into our new grasp rest room, the doorway into this room doubled in size. In order that’s why, when standing within the door of the room and looking out in direction of the window, that entrance now seems to be longer and the window now seems to be smaller and additional away.
That is the brightest room in the entire home for a lot of the day as a result of the solar rises on that nook of the home, and there are three home windows in right here. With all the paneling, it felt fairly darkish, although.
And regardless that there’s fairly a little bit of black within the room, the room feels vibrant and vibrant now.
The unique home windows had been single pane and really drafty as a result of they wouldn’t shut all the way in which.
In order a part of the transform on this space of the home, we had all new home windows put in. After which I trimmed them out with the identical trim fashion I take advantage of on all the doorways and home windows in the home. You can find that tutorial here. It’s really easy as a result of it requires no miter cuts!
The room initially had a relatively small closet, accessed by this slim door.
So in the course of the transform, we had all the closet space opened as much as this room. This included the closet that was accessible on this room, in addition to the closet space that was once accessible to the room subsequent door, which is the visitor bed room. We had the closet door within the visitor bed room drywalled over, and each closets opened as much as this room. It makes the room really feel a lot larger.
On this photograph, you possibly can actually see the distinction within the entrance to the room. Earlier than, you may see the door to the room from this nook.
And now, that entrance into the room is twice as lengthy (and our hallway is far smaller) since we had that wall moved again into the hallway.
And naturally, this room initially had just one door within the room.
However now this room has not solely the doorway resulting in the hallway, but it surely additionally has a brand new doorway resulting in the grasp rest room, which is simply past that 15-lite French pocket door.
For now, that is the one approach to entry our new rest room, however as soon as we construct our addition, the toilet shall be accessed by the master suite. I’ll most likely nonetheless hold this doorway into the toilet simply because it’s so handy to have the ability to have rest room/bathe entry instantly from the house gymnasium, particularly for Matt.
And at last, right here’s the view of what was once a stable wall separating this room from the master suite on the opposite facet of that wall.
And right here it’s now with the door that results in the brand new grasp rest room.
These are all the earlier than and after footage I’ve for you, however listed below are just a few extra particulars.
Simply contained in the door from the hallway, I hung a set of patent illustrations for various types of barbells. They had been an prompt obtain from Etsy, which is my favourite sort of artwork to purchase!
On the alternative wall is a “You Got This!” wood cutout sign that I additionally purchased from an Etsy retailer. I bought the 35″ x 29.5″ measurement in black matte.
The curtains in the room are from Amazon. I completely love these. The standard is superb, and the sheer material is so fairly. I additionally love that they’re vast (52 inches) and are available pinch pleated with adjustable material pins, so that they’re prepared to hold. It’s also possible to order a customized measurement.
The wood shades are also from Amazon. These are my absolute favourite shades ever. I used to purchase them regionally at House Depot, after which they stopped carrying them. I used to be so excited to seek out them once more on Amazon, and the corporate that sells them has nice customer support. I ordered the cordless within the Rustic Walnut shade, and after you place your order, you merely e mail the corporate, give them your order quantity and the precise measurements of your window, they usually’ll minimize them to suit.
For the partitions, I used 15 completely different paint colours to create the stripes. You can find the paint colors listed here, and see how I painted the stripes on the walls here. All the trim is Behr Polar Bear, and the black within the closet is Behr Limousine Leather-based, which is actually blacker than Behr Black.
The flooring within the room is FLOR carpet squares. These had been so unbelievably straightforward to put in, and made such an enormous distinction within the room! The sample I used known as Rush Street in Black. and it couldn’t be extra good for a house gymnasium. Let’s simply say that I’m fully offered on FLOR carpet tiles now.
The entire idea is good (the truth that if one will get broken, you possibly can simply swap out the one), and these seem to be they’ll not solely maintain up completely to any abuse that Matt and I dish out at it, however they’ll additionally maintain as much as Cooper (our very energetic 100-pound canine) and Felicity (our curious cat with claws). However I’ll add that Felicity isn’t allowed in right here very a lot, and he or she’s by no means allowed in right here with out supervision. So I do not know how these would stand as much as a cat that has full entry and decides to show the carpet squares right into a scratching publish.
I feel I’ve lined just about every thing, but when I left something out that you simply’re questioning about, simply let me know.
I’ll go away you with another look across the room, with out commentary, simply because I can’t get sufficient of those lovely colours. 😀
And that’s it! I’m formally right down to the final room in the home — my studio. Woohoo!!!! It’s going to be a protracted undertaking as a result of that’s an enormous room that wants numerous work, but it surely’s the final one. I can hardly imagine it!
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