The current work plan for the home gym closet area (game station + gym equipment storage + attic access/crawl space)

Since Matt and I made a decision to show this room into a house health club, and I requested our contractor to open the closets from each rooms into this room to create this massive closet house, I had a basic plan that this house could be used for retailer health club tools at residence. I imply, that is sensible, proper? A house health club closet is meant to retailer residence health club tools.

However this closet is difficult. As you may see within the picture above, our electrical board is on the again wall of this cupboard, so it must be accessible. And sure, I’ll put the lid again on it. I took it off whereas engaged on the grasp lavatory. And don’t fret, our animals should not allowed on this room, so they do not threat leaping in there and touching issues whereas the lid is open.

Anyway, what you may’t actually see within the image above is that this closet additionally homes entry to the attic, in addition to the entry hatch to the crawl house beneath the home. Each entry factors are on the left aspect of the closet, the place you see the metallic ladder bent and leaning in opposition to the wall.

So along with these challenges, Matt additionally instructed to Matt that he ought to have a gaming station on this room. When you’ve been right here awhile, you recognize that when upon a time, this whole room was meant to be Matt’s playroom. He collected in all probability over 20 recreation programs, and the plan was to construct an enormous leisure system sort on a wall the place he might have all these recreation consoles displayed and usable by way of a system of switches and switches. who is aware of what. (He had all of it found out in his thoughts how this might work. I do not know something about these items.)

As time went on, he determined that placing extra precedence on his well being was the neatest factor to do, so we determined to collectively to show this room into a house health club as a substitute of a recreation room. (No, I did not drive him to make that call or take his dream away from him. 😀 He is a giant boy and might make his personal selections, and he is determined that not solely is his well being extra vital than taking part in, however so is mine.)

However even with us agreeing that this room would serve greatest as a house health club, I nonetheless deliberate on creating some house the place he might have no less than two or three of his favourite gaming programs, in addition to some cupboard space for the precise video games. and controllers that include the consoles.

Discovering a solution to match all of this right into a closet with {an electrical} panel, attic entry, and a hatch does not actually go away me with many choices I can consider. The one method I can consider to do all this work is to construct or purchase one thing like a small dresser that he can use to retailer video games and place it centered in his closet house. And on either side, I can construct cabinets for residence health club tools storage.

However the hot button is that cabinets can’t be put in completely. They must be put in in such a method that they may very well be lifted if it was essential to entry {the electrical} panel, entry to the attic or the ceiling hatch.

It could positively be a ache to have to scrub issues off cabinets and take away them once we entry these issues, however no less than we have gotten to the purpose in our residence enchancment tasks the place these issues do not have to be accessed. steadily.

Our HVAC unit is within the attic and now we have somebody to scrub and preserve it twice a yr. And now that the grasp tub is finished, I feel the one time we might ever have to entry the house beneath the home is that if we had a plumbing emergency. So whereas it is an inconvenience when cabinets have to be eliminated, I do not anticipate this being one thing that should occur usually.

In order that’s my work plan for now. Are you able to inform me if in case you have a extra environment friendly thought for this house. And actually, since I’ve by no means had a house health club earlier than and I am undecided what tools I can purchase as time goes on (I would think about just a few hand weights, possibly a kettlebell or two, train bands and such), possibly I no want for cabinets. If any of you’ve gotten residence gyms, maybe you may supply some perception into what sort of storage works greatest for you.

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