Since I started working out at home I realized how convenient it could be to exercise whenever you want and the way you want. It does not substitue to my fitness club membership regarding social relationship, but it's a good complement to keep me on track even on busy week and weekend.

Thanks to the Californian weather, cars can sleep in the driveway and garage can be use for more usefull things: Building computers in garage has already been done many times :-) so I decided to think different and build a gym. Here is how I did it:

1. The easy part: Cleaning out he garage and taking down shelves and wall cabinets
2. The engineering part: Adding structural beams and building attic ceiling with plywood floor, aluminium stair and a mounted stub pull-up bar
3. The geek part: Connecting cables for electricity and audio 
4. The hard part: Insulating walls with fiber glass and adding drywall and wall wood panels (the drywall lift was required for the ceiling) 
5. The painfull part: Finishing the room, sand and paint the ceiling, walls and floor 
6. The enthusiastic part: Connecting recessed lightning, ceiling in-speakers and amplifier, mounting glassless mirror, white board and bike hanger, etc.

I also insulated the garage door, I tried with a garage insulation kit but it was not working well with our type of door so I brought it back and simply used insulation foam sheets, clean, easy to cut and put in place.

This project was a workout by itself and thanks to my dad Daniel aka site foreman, 3 weeks and ˜25 trips to Home Depot after, we were able to move in our fitness equipements and start to exercice :-)