In your own basement gym. While the space may lack polished floors or painted walls, even an unfinished basement home gym offers an awesome lifestyle upgrade and the freedom to create a ...

If your gym will be used by multiple users, a sound system with your favorite music at the ready, as well as areas to accommodate people's stuff, will come in handy.

No matter what your go-to excuse currently is for not exercising, building a basement gym can eradicate it. Summer is coming.

If you want to make the best use of your bonus space, the first step is to just start using it—without waiting for everything to be "ready." ...

Over the past year, he turned his house's woodworking shop into a basement gym. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I bought the five-bedroom house for $485,000 in 2019.