Transforming Our Garage Into a Garage Gym!

today I partnered up with hellofresh to turn our garage into a gym and although it is bittersweet because it is our family-run gym that closed down I'm happy to show you guys from start to finish basically a year-long process because I actually started back in October clearing this like garage out that has been our storage for so long and also I apologize for my voice I think I'm getting sick and I'm losing it I say a year because this is one of the projects where I tried to quote unquote work on it whenever I had the time which was basically never but when BDX actually had to close its doors and the reality hit paul and i we love our BDX community and they were moving to a different city and it just wasn't usable for us to drive out there to continue going to another location so we decided hey let's just buy the equipment that we use and create a mini BX and keep that community of going strong because the vibe and the family there was just something Paul and I were completely in love with so we have a storage pod because Paul has so much that he's saved throughout his skating career that we like to put it into here and after these fires it really motivated me to organize us and make the most of it I do not even want to look in here because the last time we took this out Paul needed to find shoes which are all the way in the back of the containers I'm pretty sure there's just a giant pile of stuff so right now I'm gonna handle the trash portion pull it over to the side yard and then kind of situate my thoughts about how I'm gonna be handling is the mess inside this guy tomorrow but the goal today is just to clear this out of much trash as possible this part was probably the quote unquote hardest because you had to or I had to just sort through everything again and after organizing this garage throughout the last seven years to be some kind of controlled chaos I was so not looking forward to actually moving everything out and then with that storage squad being there I wanted to cry because I knew it was gonna be a huge mess it just felt like the list was never-ending for this makeover before I got to the actual room but this is where you have to remind yourself where it's worth it and you can make an extra buck because I started finding things I could sell and you know I turned to my let go app which I am now obsessed with hi just had the absolute worst time with this current lock on art wise and off focusing oh good so the key broke in the lock when I was opening it up I had a hammer it out I even heard a bolt cut it so it was just jammed but we got the pot open so sad the whole fresh sanctions on my highlight reel but let me show you the mess inside these pots oh and I cleared these out apparently we need to drop anything down so I need to organize all this I'm not gonna do a time lapses when we wait too much it's not helping we're gonna we're gonna survive okay so far we're separating piles and just pulling everything out and it's a lot of stuff but this is where we're at so now I can add the shelving to the back and start to kind of pile on to that and make it actually accessible next time we pull it out of storage to say that we packed this thankful but it's fully organized as an understatement mr. Paul Rodriguez helped with this phase of it so cut it down to three hours versus probably this say okay I know not everybody's going to have a storage pod this is clearly what works for our lifestyle in our home so don't come at me in the comments like well what's the point of getting rid of your garage when you can have that storage it's like well we don't we hadn't touch anything in that garage for like three years I just organized it so that's why we got a pod oh my god can you absolutely not right now oh god I got the right log coupon saying I basically did the whole thing I did okay so the gym officially closed on Wednesday it was Thanksgiving and now today is Friday so since I still have the loaner car and Paul is in town for a couple more days before he has to leave town we picked up the key to the gym and when we're gonna just load what we can and I'm gonna start painting tonight because we basically have to have the gym ready in like days time you're gonna pass all of it's just cleaning and organizing it was totally time to just dive in and paint which I hate painting you guys know this but I had Paul there to help me and it was his first time as a 35 year old man to paint a room and I had to actually take over the second coat because the white was a little bit patchy [Music] I'm really excited bout taking these pegboards down and putting mirrors up in this garage but I am even more excited to have a plethora a pegboard on hand to be able to use in future makeovers I felt up the holes in that wall and while that was drying before I could paint I moved back over to the cabinets I decided to keep and swap out the silver handles for some generic white ones everything that I can link is linked down below for you in the description I will be adding LED strip lighting to this gym so I decided to remove that single bulb light fixture that was in there and cover that up with a wall plate and then I decided to add a fan in the middle of the smaller wall to have this airflow going directly down the garage then I finished up painting I even brought the flooring in from BDX and I do need to say that if you're doing this like roll gym flooring it is so deceivingly heavy please get help because even if I have to move this thing an inch I have to move the entire strip of flooring and that's such a first-world problem but I my body was so jacked up after this and all I needed to do is really just ask for some help from some friends I was just so stubborn but thank God I got my friends over a hellofresh that happen hooking up these room makeovers and sponsoring these videos to make this possible if you guys are unaware I have been partnering up with hello fresh throughout 2019 and I become a bigger fan of their service every time because I use it differently a little bit every single time you can say goodbye to endless grocery store trips and take off food because hellofresh has you covered and for me I absolutely love it because the last thing I 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including shipping by going to hellofresh comm and entering Mex line at checkout so again if you're looking to get started with hella fresh you actually can get started with nine three meals like I said that is $90 off your first month at jalapao including shipping head over to the link in my description hellofresh calm and enter a Metz nine at checkout okay remember how I said that I needed to ask for help well I have my good friend Lindsay on her way over and I decided to add some crown molding because my dad did this in the den he's making over in their house he did crown molding and then put lighting behind it and it had this really gorgeous like glow lighting I decided to do crown molding and add LED strip lighting just because I like that aesthetic for a gym much better okay so oh my gosh I love Lindsay and I love Elaine us so much we went out to sushi and then yeah get you some friends I want to come over and help you with a gym garage makeover on a Saturday night to like oh my gosh 2:00 in the morning we powered through so many tedious to do's and I honestly couldn't have got through this phase without them I don't even know what I was thinking that I could do all this alone so Lindsay is a muralist she does a ton of rad signage and I wanted her to paint a jay-z quote right underneath that where the crown moldings going to add something to catch your eye and motivate you I'm not gonna lie the LED strip lighting was a pain in the arse Lindsay had to figure out how to connect them via LED connectors again I've linked them down below for you but these LED strips have stickiness what stickiness on the back they have sticky strips you just peel it off and it sticks directly to the surface you needed to there was this awkward gap between where the text in a gbc's can read it and the crown molding I decided to fill that up with skateboards like I did in my garage my other garage makeover and then the deflated basketballs you see are the basketballs that Kelly has destroyed I started to do this collection a while ago cuz I found out there was like a designer destroyed basketball artist and Kelly does that naturally so it's ought to be a cool thing to continue to add skateboards and destroyed basketballs that are kind of meaningful I know it sounds weird cuz people like gift Kelly basketballs I don't know I just thought it was a cool personal quirky touch Lindsay took a break from painting and she focused on the LED lighting and while she did that I started to move equipment in since we were laying down the gym flooring it was all settled and I was getting so excited to be able to place some equipment and start to see the gym come to life finally I really need to start caring about my outfits but it's just so hard when you're like painting randomly and you don't want to get things on your clothes I don't know how these DIY youtubers are always cute because I'm always just looking a mess anyways laying out the gym wasn't that hard for me because I don't necessarily share Fitness on this channel I think if ever but I just know how my workouts go the flow of the gym that we were going to I kind of just copied and pasted something that was efficient and functional with the majority of equipment in place I wanted to start to lift what I could off the floor that didn't need to be there so I have these yoga mat wall holders I link them down below for you I also decided to get a white board a large one so we can write our workouts they're like our trainer did as well as this battle rope holder that is lifting them off of the floor versus I'm just being in a pile down below [Music] now it was time to hang the mirrors and boy were these hefty I found all the studs in the walls that I wanted to hang the mirrors in and decided that is where I would be only adding the mirror clips to the wall because that will give you the strongest hold this is where my thrifting my selling and just all the stuff that was in the garage that I told you earlier that I put on let go came in handy because the mirrors will eat up your entire budget weina mirror 48 inches by 72 inches is three hundred and $99.95 on Amazon before you completely poop yourself like I did I dug a little bit deeper on let go Craigslist and nothing was really working for me they were the mirrors that were on there were way more damaged than what I wanted to put into our gym so I found this discount glass company and I was able to get a 50 inch by 72 inch mirror for $100 I got two of those so that's $200 which yes is pricey but then I got a 72 inch by a hundred inches for two hundred and fifty dollars from this company if I were to have checked out and got all the mirrors from Amazon that I needed I would be spending $2,300 before tax which is absurd it's still kind of absurd that I spent $600 on these mirrors but it is a total steal in comparison to purchasing them off Amazon and those people delivered it and placed it where I needed we just had to install but this is also an excuse for me to say hey Paul these mirrors are your Christmas present and birthday presents so I hope you like them thank you so much to Lindsey for coming out you guys check out her YouTube channel down below and I'll link her socials as well I started to add some final touches to the gym like this skateboard shelf that I have a previous tutorial on and it was time to just sit back and soak it all in although lights can be controlled once they are connected by one remote it doesn't even matter how many sensors you have I actually have three different points of power in this gym two these LED lights and you just have to basically put the remote towards the sensor and it will turn them on two things about this wall and the gap that you see underneath the quote that is space to add extra skateboards and extra basketballs that Callie decides to ruin and add some more texture the mirror is not centered because I don't necessarily need to see myself in that corner on that machine and there's a mirror directly across from it that I can look into for my form [Music] the really cool thing about this is just knowing that I made this over so I can make it over again if we start to use it and it needs to be a little bit more functional in a different way I won't be afraid to tackle moving equipment or adding new ones and figuring out this space you just have to kind of see what works for you thank you so much - hello fresh for sponsoring today's video seriously this one happened possible without you and also just a shout out to be DX we have you obviously in our hearts and now in our house thank you guys so much for watching I hope that you got some inspiration or just had a good time watching this makeover it was a hell of a time for me I will see you soon for another DIY

Channel: Living to DIY with Rachel Metz

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Rating: 4.88311 out of 5

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Length: 13min 54sec (834 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 18 2019