Purple Home Gym Ideas and Designs

We are excited to share the grand reveal of this fantastic home gym remodel we recently completed. What started as an unfinished basement transformed into a state-of-the-art home gym featuring stunning design elements including hickory wood accents, dramatic charcoal and gold wallpaper, and exposed black ceilings. With all the equipment needed to create a commercial gym experience at home, we added a punching column, rubber flooring, dimmable LED lighting, a ceiling fan, and infrared sauna to relax in after the workout!

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Design Visions of Austin

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Contemporary home gym in Edmonton with a feature wall.

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Photo of a large contemporary home gym in Los Angeles with grey walls, carpet and black floors.

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Schwarz Lewis Design Group, Inc.

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Home weight room in Chicago with white walls and black floors.

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Brittany Blake Interiors

Photo of a classic home gym in Houston with a feature wall.

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Gryboski Builders Inc.

This is an example of a classic home gym in Other.

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David Charlez Designs

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John Kraemer & Sons

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Large contemporary indoor sports court in Minneapolis with grey walls, beige floors and feature lighting.

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Bercy Chen Studio

Inspiration for a small eclectic home climbing wall in Austin with white walls and a feature wall.

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Fusion Bowling

Inspiration for a contemporary home gym in Milwaukee.

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Amrami Design + Build

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Design ideas for an expansive classic multi-use home gym in Chicago with multi-coloured walls, porcelain flooring and multi-coloured floors.

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Visbeen Architects

Expansive traditional indoor sports court in Grand Rapids with grey walls, grey floors and feature lighting.

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ThompsonBrooks,Inc.

Sheahan and Quandt Architects
This is an example of a contemporary multi-use home gym in San Francisco with grey walls, medium hardwood flooring, orange floors and feature lighting.

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Dave Brewer Homes

Harvey Smith Photography
Design ideas for a traditional home weight room in Orlando with beige walls, dark hardwood flooring, brown floors and a feature wall.

Ellen Grasso Inc

Ellen Grasso & Sons, LLC

Wonderful ballet/exercise room with a natural oak floor and a mirrored wall. The ballet barre is from Alva's
Classic home gym in Dallas.

Zen Cabana

Rozalynn Woods Interior Design

Design ideas for a world-inspired home yoga studio in Los Angeles with feature lighting.

Whitfield Ave

Building Solutions and Design, Inc

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Bay Mist Drive

skip knoll inc professional remodeling

Family dance studio and workout space.
Inspiration for a contemporary home gym in Other.

Cardiff Custom Home

ProPacific Builders, Inc.

Medium sized coastal home yoga studio in San Diego with white walls, light hardwood flooring, beige floors and a feature wall.

Purple Home Gym Ideas and Designs

Home gyms are a wonderful luxury if fitness is a priority. The freedom and flexibility offered by building a home gym or exercise room at home is a great investment, and will soon recoup its worth in memberships. Design ideas might conjure up images of exercise bikes, treadmills and heavy weights, but if that isn’t your thing it can really be as simple as having an open, airy, mirrored studio in which to practice yoga or pilates.

How to find ideas for my home gym?

The first consideration for your home gym design is finding the space, the second is working out how this space will accommodate the gym equipment that you require. You may have a spare room, loft, basement or garage that can be fitted for purpose, but there’s more to home gyms than just bringing in the right equipment – you will want to consider hygiene, ventilation, your flooring and ease of movement around the space. Try looking through the photos from design professionals to find inspiration on how to furnish and decorate your home gym, and filter by style, budget, size, type, flooring and colours to find designs that could work for you.

How to choose the right gym equipment?

The home exercise equipment you should invest in will depend on whether you are a cardio or weights lover, and there are ideas for every budget varying from the humble skipping rope, to medicine balls, dumbbells and weight benches, or go all out with a state-of-the-art multi gym and motorised treadmills or cross-trainers. If your workouts don’t involve any fitness equipment, a bright studio space will offer the perfect environment for exercise – just add your yoga mat, a ballet barre or soft stretching area and you’ll have all you need. If you really want to go all out, and dance is your typical workout of choice, you might even consider a sprung floor. The home gym is the one room where mirrors aren’t decor, so install a mirrored wall so you can keep proper form whilst exercising.

How do I convert my space into a home gym?

Your first consideration in a home gym is space – you need to keep enough space between your gym machines to allow safe and easy movement. Designating extra space for stretching can be as important as finding room for a rowing machine and weights. Good ventilation is essential – if you have insufficient windows for good air flow then you can add extractor fans and consider installing air conditioning for climate control. Access to an electrical supply through floor recessed power points is important for your workout equipment and you may want to consider allowing for a TV and sound system. Think carefully about lighting when considering home gym ideas and ideally avoid low-hanging lights or lighting that will give off a lot of heat, as keeping cool whilst exercising is critical to comfort.

What should I do for the flooring?

Before bringing any large scale home fitness equipment into the room and dreaming up grandiose home gym ideas, take into account how much weight your floors can take. Unless your gym is on the ground floor, you may need to strengthen your flooring. Suspending timber floors may need reinforcing, and outdoor buildings such as sheds will need a minimum of 150mm joists to support equipment. If in any doubt, consult a structural engineer – nothing interrupts a workout like falling through your home gym floor! When it comes to the covering, vinyl, rubber and foam tiles or interlocking floor mats are all good options as they provide spring and a soft surface if you are in contact with the floor often.

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