Another Home For Our Home Gym?

This week, I’m centered on getting my studio completed. I made progress over the weekend, but it surely’s nonetheless not completed. I didn’t anticipate it to be. I haven’t even began on reupholstering the desk chair, and I nonetheless have a ton of organizing and cleansing to do. So I received’t be running a blog about my studio this week, however simply know that I’m arduous at work behind the scenes attempting to get it completed. And I’ll let y’all know as quickly as I’ve something fascinating (or completed) to share.

Within the meantime, I acquired a touch upon a put up final week that I haven’t been capable of get out of my thoughts. The remark was about my plan to show our present (visitor) bed room right into a closet/exercise space combo. The commenter mentioned,

“Might I make a suggestion?  Earlier than you completely, 100% decide to the thought of utilizing half of what’s going to grow to be your bed room closet as a exercise area, think about different doable exercise area options.  Your exercise area wants to have the ability to be individually ventilated–for causes of amassed humidity and Matt’s consolation whereas figuring out, and in addition as a result of over time your garments are simply going to soak up and retain that boys’ highschool health club locker room odor!  Every little thing will start to odor like low-cost gin and soiled sweat socks, and it rapidly turns into everlasting.  I urge you to rethink this concept in case you don’t need all the pieces you personal to odor like the within of a teenage boy’s health club shoe.  There’s acquired to be one other area you possibly can both convert or add onto cheaply with out going into debt for a exercise space.”

In fact, she wasn’t the primary particular person to counsel that. A number of individuals urged me to not mix a closet and exercise space for that exact same motive, however I simply couldn’t discover wherever else to place a exercise space. So I form of deserted the thought, and simply resolved myself to the truth that I’d should have a closet/health club combo.

However the concept of getting that whole room devoted to closet and space for storing certain did attraction to me. I might envision a lovely closet/dressing room kind of factor, with IKEA Pax wardrobes not solely lining one wall, however lining each partitions. After which I might have extra storage within the center. One thing like this, not in fashion (I’m utilizing IKEA Pax), however in the best way it’s organized with storage on each aspect partitions and in addition in the course of the room…

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However we have now to have a house health club or exercise space of some kind. That’s not even a negotiable merchandise for us. Matt wants to make use of his Theracycle day-after-day if doable, and whereas I don’t want any train gear, it certain is good to have. I’ve extra incentive to work out if I’ve a number of completely different choices. So I need to maintain onto it if I can.

So as soon as once more, I appeared over our ground plan to see if I might give you an answer. There are two choices that I can see.

Choice 1:

The primary possibility is to mix the closet and laundry room into one room. I do know, I do know! I can already hear a few of you screaming at me. “Kristi, I steered that!!” 😀 I hear you. I do know so lots of you steered that, and I didn’t love the thought on the time, however I’m coming round to it.

To begin with, it could make issues a lot simpler. That room has a pier and beam basis, so getting the plumbing over to that room for the washer, dryer, and scorching water heater, could be fast and simple. Turning the pantry into the laundry room could be a lot tougher and way more costly as a result of it has a slab basis.

One other factor within the “professional” column for this concept is that it could possibly be executed ahead of later. I imply, as quickly as our new bed room is completed and we’re moved into there, and as quickly as I begin turning the visitor bed room right into a closet, I might additionally get my washer, dryer, and scorching water heater moved into that room. No extra ready to have a laundry room.

With this plan, that frees up the pantry to be our exercise space. The disadvantage is that the room is just 7′ x 12′. That’s not a whole lot of room, and there’s no technique to increase it. That dimension is about in stone. Nevertheless it’s sufficient room for my new smaller treadmill, Matt’s Theracycle, my rebounder, our set of freeweights, and a few kettlebells. One other con is that it will likely be proper there by the kitchen. That appears awkward.

Choice 2:

The second possibility I got here up with was to construct a totally separate little constructing in our again yard. It could possibly be near the bed room finish of the home, proper round right here someplace…

I went to the web site of the corporate that’s constructing my workshop simply to see what I might give you. If we maintain it beneath 200 sq. toes, I don’t want a allow from the town. So I got here up with this cute little dormer shed that’s 12′ x 16′ that will value about $9500.

That’s 192 sq. toes, so we might construct that with out the town being concerned within the course of. And it’s cute! We actually have loads of room for it on our one-acre lot. The draw back is that Matt must go outdoors to entry it. That’s tremendous most days right here in central Texas, however I do marvel about wet days or actually chilly days.

So these are my ideas to date. As I work on the studio this week, I’m going to proceed pondering these concepts. I actually do like the thought of my closet not having to share an area with exercise gear and sweaty individuals. I do know that’s not ultimate. I might need to dwell with it for at the very least a short while, however now that I’ve thought-about different choices, I’m feeling extra satisfied that I’d like to seek out one other residence for our train gear.

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