hey everyone it's morgan yates and for today's video i'm setting out to turn my mess of a second
bedroom into a dedicated at-home gym space i'm doing this in under 24 hours so stick around to
see the final result and let's get into the makeover welcome to the gym room or soon to
be the gym room right now i don't know i'm gonna give you the full before in a second but i am so
excited for today's video it's another 24 hour room makeover if you have not seen my recent video
i just remade my entryway to my house so this is the room in question this has been just like
such a long time coming like one of those things that just sits at the bottom of my priority list
and also just like haven't really known what to do but i finally have ideas i'll give you the
before and then i'll walk you through what i'm going to be doing right now the two main like
gym aspects of this room that is obviously clearly just like an all-purpose room at the moment um are
the peloton and the treadmill over on this table is where i've been keeping my weight immediately
all of these like boxes of clothes were going these were like my poshmark boxes
i was reselling clothes but i think i just got to donate it because that's also at the bottom of my
priority list and it's sat here for too long and is like keeping me from fully utilizing the space
when we look this way it's just a mess as well we have the tv which is great for like
you know watching something while working out this dresser didn't fit in my bedroom so it's
staying here no matter what this chair is gonna go as you can see we have two little fridges
i'm gonna keep this one i'm gonna make it like more of like a gym inspired fridge switching out
some things in there you know pretending we have some amenities going on in this room this is a
wine fridge obviously does not go with the vibe of the room and i'm taking out a lot of things
from here right now but this wine fridge there's literally nowhere else in my house for this to go
so it's just gonna stay like and trying to create this like gym space i'm still working with my
circumstances um which does require a couple extra things remaining in here unfortunately but one pro
about this room as far as like a gym room goes i think these huge mirrored doors actually bring
like a gym feel in here you know one thing that's been like an ongoing conflict for me is trying to
figure out what to do with this table it was like an investment piece for me a couple houses ago
and i've always had a place to use it but i do not at this house however i want to hold on to it for
the future it's just like again taking up space in here so i'm to try to like squeeze this in in
my under the stairs closet downstairs just trying to like make all of this open space also going to
be redoing these shelves making those a little bit more like actually purposeful and like useful to
gym purposes equipment's going to be going on here i'm going to be switching out this decor right now
it just looks like some general decorative bookshelves for the longest time i was at a
standstill with like what in the world to do with these shelves because they just like obviously
make this look more just like a regular room i was recently in mexico and in their spa there
i'll insert like an inspiration photo they're like obviously it's not gonna be like exactly executed
here but i was like okay they did a very like clean simple job of styling these shelves like
they got the towels just like some little vases so i've picked up some things along those lines
i'm very excited to see the final result in here might tie in some art might bring in some plants
i really don't know i have a little bit of new equipment that i've ordered might like do a whole
like gym floor situation we're going to see that might be like a total fail i'm going to bring in
some fun like lighting elements as well there's a lot on the agenda i'm very excited i think first
things first i'm gonna just clear out all of these items so we have our clean space to start
all right i have moved everything out just gave everything a good vacuum because things
were getting a little dusty in here and before i get to the rest of the makeover i just wanted to
share a little bit about why i'm wanting to like create a whole gym space in here i almost made
this an office um it was kind of going back and forth for a while as well and that brings me to
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to move on with the makeover all right so i've just brought in all of the stuff i've ordered
i'm sweating and disheveled so the next task and the one that i feel like is going to make
a huge difference in here is changing out this decor to make it more gym vibe so again we're
going for like upscale spa meets gem again this is not an upscale spot so this could not be executed
we will have to wait and see but i think the best way to do this is to just take everything
off the shelves and like rebuild i know i want to have like probably weights down here on the
bottom shelf somewhere i want to have like some towels in here you know for wiping the old sweat
off i've also just placed an instacart order for some fun little jimmy beverages to go in there
this is not the proper or advisable way to clean shelves but
honestly that worked excellently so i divided all the decor into like things i would maybe
still use and then like books and basically just things i'm definitely not going to use in here
and now these are some of the things i picked up to go on the top shelf i'm a little worried about
height but i just wanted to do like a clean like top row here like some
bigger items that aren't going to look too cluttered i feel like less is more
when it comes to like especially things looking more like upscale if you will i think i'm gonna
just start putting things on here this is the piece i'm like most worried about the height
yeah dang it well nothing i can do about that dang it that means this one is too tall
i also wanted to incorporate some like black elements in here
versus i feel like i normally lean towards just like light and neutral decor since like
gym equipment mostly like the things i have are black so i wanted to like tie that in throughout
what does it look like if i literally just do one
i don't know is it like a clean look i'm gonna put my weights on here and leave that for later
so i have they're kind of spread out but we have five pounds seven and a half pounds 10 pounds and
12 pounds for at home like i don't know i don't really need to go higher than that honestly i'm
kind of feeling this minimalist look okay i think i've got it what do we think about this
so we have our vases up top keeping it simple so that overall things don't look too crazy i have
more towels they're just in the wash i think it'd be cute to just have three set out here
and this basket i don't know how i feel about like the basket on here it's like practical like it has
all of my resistance bands things like that in there so just another like light
decorative item and then right here i thought i would just like leave out a jump rope and like
a black resistance band and like put it on that little mirrored tray just to kind of bring some
structure to it here's what it looks like what do we think so now getting over to this side of
things i might try to use those decor pieces that were too tall and see how they look just on this
dresser first thing though i need something to store my yoga mats in i actually just picked up
a new plain black one this blue one just needs to go like it's so dirty i've had this for years
and years it's like ripping and i picked out this basket that's gonna like take some time to really
you know get its shape after being in a box i'm gonna put that there with these yoga mats in it
we have our first thing that i'm not loving i'm gonna give it some time of like gonna try
to like stretch this basket out a little bit more i thought like these colors would be some
contrast to the black mattes but i just don't know if i'm feeling it now to figure out what to
do here i'm just gonna hope this works so that i don't really have to think think about it um
does that look too big it's just slightly blocking the tv do i want to bring in like any sort of book
element i even got this like little marble spear thing that's like flat bottom and a little topper
is that too much going on and does that look too uneven like one tall element since i also have
all this just like plain black space up here above this fridge i thought it could be like a spa gym
vibe to have just like a couple products out you know what i mean and in this one i thought i could
do like hand sanitizer i don't know i just wanted to tie in the bottle because i think it looks so
just like lux spa which while we're on the note of the fridge my order of drinks just got delivered
all right so what we got in here down at the bottom i just have some water these
are some protein shake drink things that's just nice to have on the go
a couple vitamin water flavors i don't drink those very often at all just trying to think
of things that like went in this i don't know maybe some guests would want them
and then a couple of green juices only got three because those expire pretty quickly so
next thing i ordered just a little matte it's like a very durable like mint to go
under exercise equipment mat so the peloton doesn't like move it's pretty heavy but i feel
like having this under it would just like center it somewhat from like an aesthetic perspective
this looks so much better i think for right now i just moved some of those
weights back there because the mat was kind of curling up but i think that this like
was such a small thing that made this look like so much more gym like i'm sufficiently sweating
this is my workout for the day next up this is one of those things that may or may not work
i got some gym flooring that way i'm not always having to like go get a yoga
mat it would give me like a little bit more square footage on like a comfortable ground
so it had mixed reviews so we're gonna see how it even like looks in here
all right so this is what it looks like there's like one corner where they meet that's like
wrong for some reason so i need to cut that off i'm trying to decide if i want to keep it first
it is nice like it would be nice not having to like pull out my mats every time and like this
would wipe clean and everything one thing i just want to test i wonder what these would
look like on top of the shelves is like an additional element to like bring your eye up
i feel like that's probably no is it though what do we think do we like those up there or do we
like them over here they're not on the dresser then i could just leave the books on one side and
move that there i feel like that makes this look less cluttered like it's very simple but i also
at one point wondering if i should bring in like some plants to like bring some more life in here
but i kind of again going with like the spa inspo whatever i feel like just keeping it like neutral
like pretty much everything else in my house i feel like it looks good like this like i feel like
adding plants would kind of take away from like the super like clean
gym vibe i think i like the floor i think i'm gonna leave before the final
thing here that i need to assemble that i'm very excited about it's not really gonna make
much of a difference during the daytime look in here but when it comes to working out at night
especially in like winter months when it gets dark really early i love creating like a hype
you know like really dark workout environment with like the fun colorful lights um all these
you can like sync to like the beat of the music and that type of vibe i feel like just makes me
feel like i'm in a workout class so i already have lights behind like you like can't see it in the
daylight but i have them behind this tv already and then i ordered a couple of these like floor
lamps which you will see in the daylight it's not ideal these are the only ones i could find that
were white and not black so that at least it won't like stand out too too much but my thoughts are
since i have light coming from over here i could stick one of these in that corner and then one
of these in that corner so it'll be like an all-encompassing surrounding lighting environment
okay i've done one so far i'm kind of obsessed it looks a bit brighter on camera right now but this
is just like some like nice neutral warm light i feel like even during the day that would be nice
to have and i ended up running the cord under the mat so it doesn't stand out too too much and on
here we can like change the color as well i just installed the second light and that brings us to
the grand reveal daylight edition as a reminder this is what this room looks like before
and here is the after
all right you can come grand reveal with Jezzel
it looks so good that looks so good do you like it yeah actually yes do you like the match
so that brings me to the end of this room makeover and if you like this video again
make sure to check out my intro makeover video i am so excited to like work out in
this room he used to stress me out and now i mean just like oh like i want to be in here to
wrap up this video i'm going to give you a little nighttime preview with the lights but otherwise
that is it again if you want to try out co-pilot and take advantage of that free 14-day trial
i'm gonna have my link below and that is it see you guys in my next video