AIBU To want to decorate the spare room into a home gym ?

[SpagBolgs]

Hello I was planning on decorating our spare room into a home gym, this room has been untouched for years and nobody has cared until now. I bought this issue up with DH and he straight away told me no he is going to decorate it into a home cinema and I should use my gym membership. I find a home cinema pointless as we go to the theatre or just see the movie in cinemas and he never cared about the spare room. BTW I am planning on using my own money.
AIBU or is it a waste of money any ideas?

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

When you say decorate into a gym, I have visions of running machines mounted on the walls

[HSMMaCM]

If the room's been untouched for years, then he could assume you weren't interested in it either. You need to come to a compromise. Maybe Rock Paper Scissors?

[hermionepotter]

gym with a giant tv?

[SpagBolgs]

I have been telling him for years and he been ignoring me, now that I tell him if he does not hurry up I will start planning he going on about how he always wanted a home cinema.

[hermionepotter]

what actually is a home cinema

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

hermione I think we call it a living room.

[MoreBeta]

I am decorating our basement into a flexible space.

Everyone is happy then. Seriously, a home gym for morning use, chill out room for teenage DCs at weekend and cinema for evening with Sky multiroom if people want to watch different things.

[stopgap]

I didn't use a bedroom, but let me tell you having a home gym is fantastic. You can incorporate all sorts of strange pelvic thrusting exercises to your workout, without having to worry about sleazy steroid dudes :D

[Jolleigh]

If you're only decorating the room, why not paint a treadmill on one wall and a big screen TV on the other? What a very odd way to phrase it

Neither of you IBU. You each have an idea for the space and somehow need to come to an agreement. Why not soup up your living room into the home cinema then you can use the room as a gym?

[CromeYellow]

Why not both? Exercise while you watch movies? I prefer the gym idea, I did that, saved us from a ton of unwanted guests and I can work out whenever I like.

[ComposHat]

If you gave a gym membership you make infrequent use of, I can see why your partner would see purchasing a bunch of expensive exercise equipment that you already have access to as being wasteful.

Equally i am unsure how a home cinema room differs from the living room (bigger tv?).

Ps. Decorate and convert do not mean the same thing.

[curiousuze]

Treadmill with widescreen telly with surround sound on the wall?

[LordPalmerston]

No way. You'll never use it. Go to classes instead

[TestingTestingWonTooFree]

An actual home cinema is way better than a living room. I don't think you can combine it with a home gym. How you use your home can't be first come first served. You need to discuss this and find an agreement.

[Chopstheduck]

I'd put a treadmill in there, and then put the giant tv and seating in there too. I think it can be very hard to be motivated to work out at home, and you will get better results by actually using your gym membership. Even with a whole room too, you are going to be limited what you can put in there compared to the variety of a gym.

[Sirzy]

Given the price of gym equiptment how much are you planning on having? Surely the room can be designed in such a way it incorporates both?

[ComposHat]

Depending on the weight of the gym equipment you may have to get the floor reinforced if it is an upstairs bedroom.

[CoffeeTea103]

Why do you want one if you're not using your gym membership?

[Periae]

To want a home gym

[RhiWrites]

Hmm. I go to the gym twice a day and usually do an hour’s spinning on my fold up exercise bike. That’s a lot of going to the gym and I’m still not sure a home gym is a good use of space.

What other rooms do you already have, how much do you use them and what’s in them?