When designing a home, if you have the opportunity to do so, I highly recommend including a gym space. It has been substantiated time and time again that when you have an allocated space for a hobby, passion, or activity that you will participate in it much more frequently.

Personally, I enjoy doing my exercises in private. Therefore, when I was given the chance to add a personal workout area in my new house I jumped at such a prospect. Then I immediately reverted to finding an inspiration room to use as my template. I pulled from a couple of sources, including the setting in a Tracy Anderson workout DVD, and an Asian based spa room.

I am ecstatic to say that after being in the house for 5 days, I have already used the exercise room 4 times. This is already a record of sorts for me, so I am perfectly delighted.