Relaxing Basement Transformation

This bare bones basement home gym is made over into a combination sleek gym and cozy family room.

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Filed under: Basements, Makeover, Exercise Rooms, Living Rooms

Before

Kevin and Kim are a very busy couple. She's a psychologist and he's a lawyer with a heavy caseload. What they need is a place to burn off stress and relax at the end of the day.

After

Wilson scraps the suspended ceiling, the cold, industrial tile floor and old drywall, then reconfigures the space to create two separate rooms: one for exercising and one for entertaining.

After

Kevin and Kim see potential in the large, unfinished basement of their historic home. But it's going to take a lot of work to convert this space into a sleek home-gym and cozy family room. So they enlist the help of architect Reginald Wilson.