Nesting With Grace

by Brooke Christen

Inside our Garage- Garage Gym, Garage Floors and More

We didn’t have a garage for the 7 years we lived in Connecticut, so now that we have one it is a REAL treat. Our garage has three separate garage door, we turned one of the garage stalls into our garage gym. We initially wanted to do a stand-alone gym in the yard, but couldn’t build anything due to the water easement (basically a big water pipe running in our yard). We park both our cars in the other two stalls. Besides cars, there really isn’t much room for anything else. We walk through the garage multiple times a day so we wanted to make the floor nice. And, we LOVE how it all turned out!!!!

Garage Exterior-

Wood Garage Doors and Copper Exterior Lights Over Doors
This is the exterior of our garage, you can get all the details on outside on this blog post. And I do want to mention that we have two storage sheds in our yard. One shed has seasonal decor, yard tools, snow blower etc. Then the other shed is by our pool and that has pool toys and bikes.

Wall Color-

First we painted all the walls and ceiling the same color as Finn’s Bedroom, Off Black from Farrow and Ball (our painter had it color matched locally).

Garage Floor-

This is a view from the middle garage, we only have two cars so we were happy to use the third garage space for our gym. Peek at that new garage floor!!!
Here is the garage floor before. We considered painting it with an epoxy, but decided we wanted a pattern and the floor we selected will hold up a longer than the epoxy without continually having to touch up. Not to mention we didn’t want epoxy in our garage because we workout in here, not great to be breathing in epoxy fumes.
The floor is from a company called SwissTrax. They have a great website. You can put in the measurement and layout of your garage and design the floor you want. Another great feature is they have some already made patterns, if you select one of those they automatically breakdown what you need in way of color and sq. footage. The cost of the flooring varies on the tile selection but our space was rough 400 sq. ft and it cost us around $1500, $3.75 a square foot. They do offer discounts on floors over 500 sq. ft.
The floor we did was the Ribtrax Smooth Pro. Our colors are Jet Black, Slate Gray and Arctic White. Once you start designing your floor there are pattern options. We picked a plaid pattern and put in the colors we wanted. You could contact them for help HERE (see our pattern below).
This was the pattern we picked!
You don’t need any tools to install this floor. Just lay it down interlock the edges and step on it to snap it into place! We got the kids involved and laid the entire floor in around 2 hours.
They also have videos on YouTube that show you how to start it and finish it, but even those steps are very easy as well.
This is the end of the garage, you can see the edging and how it finishes it off so clean.
It really is going to be so easy to clean. SwissTrax suggest simply power washing the tile when they get dirty. In the winter the snow will melt through the slots and will eventually dry just like it would if you had standard cement floors.
I love how the transition looks from the Gym into the garage, it really cleans up the space and makes the gym even that more enjoyable of a space. Also, a moment for Kevins 1970’s Bronco. I get asked about it often (when it makes a small appearance in my stories) so…here it is!
Not to mention, if we ever had guests staying over that wanted to join us for a workout we can pull out the cars and have even more room to exercise on!! PS- our simple Bulkhead Lights can be found HERE.

Garage Storage-

As I mentioned before there isn’t a bunch of storage space. We were able to fit a few key pieces on the main wall. We did want to keep the clutter to a minmum since we workout in the space so these few pieces do the trick.
The lockers I got at a vintage market, they hold brooms, and sports equipment. We also added these storage shelves for supplies, light bulbs, extra battery candles, garbage bags, carpet cleaner and more. I labeled all the bins by writing right on the bins with a chalk pen.
This cool sideboard was here when we bought the house. Kevin sanded down the top and painted the base with extra paint we had from the garage walls. We have tools, hooks, batteries etc in the drawers. The Tool Shelf above was purchased on Etsy. It is an easy and cute way to store some of the most used tools and make things easy to access.

Garage Gym Floor-

 The gym floor is Regupol 8mm Flooring, in Jett Black. You can use the Regupol Adhesive that they suggest to attach it to the floor. We didn’t do that. Instead just used this tape to tape down each section. That is the same way our CrossFit gym attached the same gym floor and it worked perfect and easier to install.
This is the transition into our garage gym floors, they are basically the same thickness and I like how the edging of the flooring overlaps the taped edge of the gym floor.

Garage Gym Details-

Our rig system is from ROGUE. It can fold completely against the wall, but we will rarely put it flat against the wall. Love that we can do so many things with this rig! If you want a system that you will fold against the wall everyday I would look at PRx Performance systems (The Rogue system does support a bit more weight).
Put in the hours banner (HERE).
The rack with the weights, wall balls, and bars are all from Rogue. The olympic weights we had been waiting for months to come back in stock from Rogue, but they didn’t, so we ordered them from Eleiko (a lot more expensive, but great quality). PS- the flag was a gift from my friend Mat when we moved from CT.
I wanted to treat the space as I would any of our indoor spaces, so I found baskets for storage. The jumprope and band rack is from Rogue Fitness as well, nice way to keep everything in one place.
Peloton Bike and Rower are what we use for cardio. We eventually want to add a treadmill. I got the posters from this website. We framed them in this simple black matte frame.
We continued to workout through our cold winter by using these floor heaters from Home Depot, during the coldest time of the year two units were able to keep the garage at 60 degrees.
I ordered this oversized whiteboard for our workouts! Each morning Kevin will text me our workout and I’ll write it up on the board so we can make sure we are staying on track. Another basket for our Yoga mats and that wood shelf (older) for our Peloton and weight lifting shoes.
We have three barbells that fit nicely on this storage rack from Rogue Fitness. My bar was a gift from my old Cross-fit, inscribed with my Cross-fit nickname “Honey Badger”. Love the cute You’re Doing Great banner and print of all the Girl Benchmark Cross-fit workouts.
I just moved this fiddle leaf fig in here to get more light, it wasn’t doing good where it was! We use that simple rolling cart for all our necessities! And baskets for barbell clips etc.
Our large clock with a Tibata Timer is from Rogue here. Good Music- we use this speaker. And yes, we totally have a diffuser in our gym and use it every time we workout! Our favorites oils to pump are peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, eucalyptus, lemon, grapefruit, citrus fresh, jade lemon, lemon myrtle, lime to name a few! (find oils we use here).
Hope you enjoyed the garage tour and it gave you ideas to make any space work for you!

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Comments

  1. Jennie Johnson says

    This is such a great space! We’re moving in the early fall and I’ve been trying to figure out how we can best use the home gym we will have. Your post gave me some great ideas–Thanks so much!

    Jennie

  2. Kate says

    Hi! Do you keep the heaters on all winter or just when you’re working out in there during the cold times? I’d love to move my peloton to the garage but didn’t know how it’d hold up in our Colorado winters? Thanks! I love all your stuff!

    • [email protected] says

      We turn the heaters on the night before we were going to work out in the morning. They helped to heat the garage to about 60 degrees. Salt Lake Valley, UT is similar to Colorado winters I would say.

  3. Wendy says

    Random question…..do you know if they would sink or float? Is there a way to secure them to the floor so they would not float away if there was water in the garage?

  4. Julia B says

    Gorgeous! Do you have the details of which colors you did and how you did the trim? I’m wondering if the blue you did is pearl silver or island blue? Thank you! We have been looking at doing epoxy but I love this so much more!

    • [email protected] says

      Thanks! It says it above-
      First we painted all the walls and ceiling the same color as Finn’s Bedroom, Off Black from Farrow and Ball (our painter had it color matched locally).

  6. Ione says

    This space is absolutely beautiful. I like the garge flooring because it seems to also be renter friendly. Tfs🖤

  7. Celia says

    Looks great! Clean and useful! Thanks for always sharing your sources! Really appreciate it!

  8. Sabrina says

    Hello! LOVE EVERYTHING! Curious if you went with Pro or Smooth PRo and if it’s comfortable for bare feet? Also wondering colors – is it jet black, slate grey, and arctic white? And what for trim? Lots of questions! Thank you!!

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