House Gymnasium Window Therapies & Flooring Progress

Our house fitness center is admittedly beginning to take form! I do know many individuals questioned my use of curtains in a house fitness center, and it’s positively not a normal addition to a house fitness center (I’ve checked out loads of house fitness center photos on Houzz, and agree that it’s very out of the peculiar), however y’all know me effectively sufficient to know that if I can add cloth to home windows, I’m going to do it. 😀 It doesn’t matter to me if it’s a house fitness center. Home windows (in my house) want cloth if in any respect attainable.

So yesterday, I lastly unpackaged the curtains that I purchased a 12 months in the past for this room. These are the sheer curtains that I bought within the shade Off White, and I’m actually impressed with the standard. They arrive with pinch pleats and adjustable material hooks, so there’s no want for clip rings.

Home gym with colorful striped walls, white sheer curtains, black foam floor, woven wood shades, Bellicon rebounder

They appear a bit messy proper now as a result of they’ve actually been scrunched up in small packaging for over a 12 months, so that they’re very wrinkled. And as you’ll be able to see, the size is simply too lengthy, so I’ll have to hem them. However as soon as they’re hemmed, steamed, and tidied up fairly a bit, I feel they’ll look nice!

I nonetheless haven’t had an opportunity to place the Walmart dresser collectively. You may see the items stacked up by my rebounder. However I did make extra progress on the froth flooring.

Home gym flooring -- black foam flooring with a wood grain print, called Forest Floor -- installed over hardwood floor

The extra I put this flooring down, the extra I’m beginning to have second ideas about it. You may clearly see within the picture under the place the 2 barely completely different mats meet. The primary three rows (i.e., the primary three packages that I opened) are darker (a more true black) and shinier. The remaining has an ever so barely blue undertone and extra of a matte end.

Home gym foam floor issues -- two different lots with two slightly different colors and sheens

I initially thought that I’d be capable of push previous that, however I’m battling it now. Along with the colour/sheen variations, I’ve discovered that there’s no means that this flooring will stand as much as Cooper’s claws. I’ve to deliver him via this room and thru the lavatory to get to his yard, and Cooper doesn’t go anyplace at a traditional strolling tempo. He will get from level A to level B by operating, leaping, and twirling the entire means. So the very first time he “walked” via this room, he poked a gap in one of many mats together with his claws.

I do know you’re going to say, “Simply preserve his nails minimize quick!” That sounds straightforward sufficient, besides that he’s a 100-pound canine who gained’t let me contact his toes. He’s by no means let me or anybody else contact his toes.

I needed to take him to the vet a couple of 12 months in the past due to a ache situation he was having in his again/tail space. Whereas we had been there, I requested the vet to clip his nails for me. Nicely, she tried, and one of many different individuals tried, and neither of them may do it, both. She lastly decided that he wanted X-rays, and with a purpose to try this, they needed to give him a sedative, so that they had been in a position to clip his nails whereas he was sedated. However I don’t really feel almost as responsible about my lack of ability to clip his nails now that I do know that even the vet and the vet tech couldn’t do it.

So he’s on his personal with the claws. However within the meantime, he’s poking holes within the foam ground. And I solely have this a lot left to place down — a bit bit in the principle a part of the room, the closet space, after which entry space.

Colorful home gym still in progress -- needs gym flooring, storage, wall mounted TV

So I’m not likely certain what to do. This flooring wasn’t costly in any respect. I feel I paid simply over $200 for sufficient tiles for the entire room. So a minimum of if I modify my thoughts and get one thing else, it’s not an enormous loss. I’m certain I can discover somebody domestically who may discover a use for them.

Home gym with colorful vertical stripe walls, still in progress.

However at this second, I’m pondering I would order some Flor carpet tile samples. They might be far more sturdy, and would look nice. I wouldn’t must cope with completely different colours and sheens.

Home gym foam flooring being installed over hardwood floor

I’m going to order some Flor samples right now, and hopefully they’ll get right here rapidly. Within the meantime, I’ll simply preserve the froth tiles the place they’re, and I’ll transfer on to the opposite tasks within the room. I nonetheless must put down hardwood flooring within the closet space, after which I can put the dresser collectively, hem the curtains, get the entry gentle put in, and many others. There’s nonetheless a lot to do whereas I resolve on flooring.

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