Home Gym Remodel From Start To Finish (Plus An Estimated Cost)

Yesterday, I shared the earlier than and after footage of our newly-finished residence fitness center. Should you missed that, you’ll be able to click on right here to see all the footage. As we speak, I wished to return and fill in that clean area of time that occurred between the earlier than and the after footage. Since this room was in progress for nicely over three years, I typically overlook what it took to get from these earlier than footage to the after footage, so wanting again on the entire challenge helps me to understand simply how far issues have come.

The story of the house fitness center really begins with the hallway. Once we purchased the home, our hallway was a big rectangle (virtually as massive as our small kitchen) with 5 doorways in it resulting in (1) the music room, (2) the hallway lavatory, (3) the master suite, (4) the second bed room that’s now our residence fitness center, and (5) the third bed room that’s now our visitor bed room (aka, our primary bed room quickly).

Right here’s what the view into the hallway initially seemed like from the music room. The open doorway on the left is what’s now our residence fitness center, and the open doorway on the precise is what was initially the master suite.

And simply previous the closet on the left wall is the doorway to the visitor bed room, and simply previous the closet on the precise wall is the hallway lavatory.

After the unique hallway transform, the configuration stayed the identical. I eliminated the closet on the left and changed it with a built-in cupboard. I eliminated the closet on the precise wall and left that area open in order that I might transfer the lavatory doorway just a bit bit. And the opposite two bed room doorways stayed in the identical spot.

However then just a few years in the past, we had a plumbing downside which required that your entire flooring, together with subfloor, within the hallway get replaced. So we deliberate to have that completed on the identical time that we deliberate Section 1 of the transform at this finish of the home. It was so unhappy to see my once-finished hallway torn up, however it was thrilling on the identical time as a result of greater and higher issues had been coming.

After all, seeing this occur to the hallway was a bit unnerving, however issues usually must worsen earlier than they get higher.

And once more, within the picture above, you’ll be able to see the 2 doorways on that one wall — the doorway to our present residence fitness center on the left, and the doorway to what was the unique master suite on the precise.

So once they lastly acquired the hallway repaired and the brand new subfloor put in, that’s when the brand new wall was constructed within the hallway. The brand new wall was moved additional into the hallway about three toes to sq. up that nook in the master suite, after which the doorway from the hallway into the master suite was closed up. I’ve marked the unique place of that authentic wall with the doorways on the picture under.

By shifting that wall additional into the hallway, squaring up that a part of the unique master suite, and shutting off the doorway that initially led to the hallway, that allowed us room for a water closet once we turned the unique master suite into our new grasp lavatory. In order that space now seems like this, and the wall with the massive freestanding cupboard is the wall that’s shared with the hallway.

If we hadn’t moved that wall additional into the hallway, there can be a wall simply previous the bathroom with a doorway main into the hallway. 😀

And by shifting that wall additional into the hallway, you’ll be able to see how a lot of the hallway (the horizontal stripes on the wall) was subsumed by the house fitness center, creating that longer entrance into the room.

Whereas all of that was occurring outdoors the room within the hallway, that is what was occurring contained in the room. The entire wooden was faraway from the partitions and the ceiling. Not one of the exterior partitions initially had insulation, and the unique home windows had been drafty single pane home windows that didn’t shut all the best way.

There was a lot wooden that got here out of this room, however fortuitously, somebody got here and picked up all the good items to reuse them, so that they didn’t find yourself within the landfill.

Whereas they had been shifting the wall and shutting up a doorway within the hallway, I additionally had them drywall over the unique visitor bed room closet door and open up each closets to the house fitness center. You’ll be able to see under simply how small every closet was initially, with this large closet space being divided into two closet areas, one for the visitor bed room, and one for this room.

Neither of these closets had been very helpful of their authentic measurement, and with their authentic 24-inch-wide doorways. So after drywalling over the closet door within the visitor bed room, I constructed two closets on the outside wall of the visitor bed room.

So simply on the opposite facet of that wall within the closet the place you see the label “authentic visitor bed room closet door”, that is what it initially seemed like…

And after it was drywalled over and the room was completed, it seemed like this…

After which I constructed two closets flanking the one window within the room to exchange that authentic closet area and double the hanging closet area for the room.

After which again within the residence fitness center, now that the one inside doorway into the master suite had been closed up from the hallway, we would have liked a brand new entry level. So this shared wall between the 2 rooms needed to have a doorway.

And right here’s what it seemed like as soon as the doorway was in place with the pocket door body.

So as soon as the contractor and his guys acquired by means of with their half, that is what they handed to me to complete up. The hallway with new subfloor however no flooring, a brand new wall with one much less doorway.

Doorways that had been tough and in want of a lot of trim.

And many new drywall in want of primer and paint.

So from there, it was all on me to take that room from there, and add all the ending — paint, trim, flooring, lighting, and many others. So my half was taking the room from this…

…to this…

And from this…

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This was a enjoyable challenge, however it took so lengthy as a result of I didn’t work on it with out interruptions from begin to end. There was the beautiful important delay of a worldwide pandemic in 2020, after which my consideration was on the grasp lavatory for nicely over a 12 months. So this room stored getting shoved to the again burner, however I’m so glad that it’s lastly completed. I like that this complete finish of the home is completed!

I used to be going to attempt to whole up how a lot this room price general, however with a challenge that was unfold out over the span of three years, it’s laborious to maintain up with all of these prices. As greatest as I can inform, the development price for all the things our contractor did on this room alone (new drywall, electrical, new doorway, including two pocket door frames, changing home windows, and many others.) got here to about $7900.

Along with that, a few of the primary prices had been:

• Primer and paint: $350 (in spite of everything, I did use 17 totally different paint colours on this room 😀 )
• Trim: $550
• Home windows: $850 (I supplied the home windows, and my contractor put in them)
• FLOR carpet squares: $1650
• 15-lite French door: $370

So with all of that, and never together with the little ornamental stuff like curtains, curtain rods, mirrors, cabinets, TV, and different ornamental objects, and many others., that involves $11,670.

After all, an enormous a part of ending out a house fitness center is the precise fitness center tools. However what you place in your house fitness center could also be fully totally different from what we put in ours, so the price of our tools could also be completely irrelevant for different people who find themselves placing collectively a house fitness center. However simply to provide you an concept of what ours price, our primary tools consists of:

So if I did my math proper, the house fitness center tools got here to $7833, with $6958 of that popping out of our pockets (for the reason that rebounder was a present). We didn’t pay for that unexpectedly, although. I’ve had the DB Technique machine since early 2020. We purchased Matt’s Theracycle again in 2014. I’ve had my WaterRower for a minimum of a few years. You get the purpose. We didn’t simply exit and purchase $7000 price of apparatus unexpectedly to place into this room. We’ve acquired a lot of it over a number of years.

However a house fitness center that goes past only a mat and some freeweights can get costly! In order for you a devoted room with precise fitness center tools, it may well price fairly a bit of cash to get there. However residence gyms might be simply as efficient with inexpensive tools (and one thing like a Theracycle is a specialty piece of apparatus that most individuals wouldn’t want), or you’ll be able to spend many occasions what we spent on ours. I imply, if you’d like your individual customized, totally decked out Pilates studio, you’ll pay a small fortune for that. So all of it is dependent upon your particular needs, wants, objectives, and area out there.

I’m fairly enthusiastic about ours, although! I believe it’ll go well with our wants completely.