Home Fitness In New Homes
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Despite all my years I still feel like a child inside. I have a hard time looking in the mirror and locating a fully realized mature man. You would have believed the birth of my second child might have changed it, yet I still seem to be in self-denial of the aging process.
Speaking of aging — or rather fighting it off — my wife and I bought a brand new house and this home possesses space in its basement for the exercise room my wife has always sought. But I’m seeing dollar signs when I consider all the large and tiny items essential, from the necessary but often neglected weight benches and excercise mat to deciding on the most reliable of the many stationary bicycles.
Stationary bicycles can be tricky now a days. Do you buy a recumbent or an upright stationary bike? Should I go with a digital or old-school analog?
And then my dear wife seems determined to get one of those elliptical machines as well. You understood that right. An exercise bicycle and an elliptical trainer — not just one or the other. My estimate is that the extra exercise equipment goes with the cream for stretch marks she began utilizing after the birth of youngest daughter. Wow I’ll get it for that jest.
I have to be careful with the budget because our new home is more of a fixer-upper. We desired it this way, but we still must carefully budget everything, down to the cabinet knobs (I’m not kidding). My dear wife has a pretty ambitious kitchen cabinet remodeling design plotted, but I have to remind her the bathroom sinks she wishes installed will set us back a pretty penny, too.
Gratefully, we both like the natural, rustic look, so we’re furnishing our new house with unfinished furnitures. Yes, it still requires some finishing, but we can keep the costs down and make better furniture than we could find anywhere anyways.
I recently found a nice table for coffee with some decent, raw knotting and a entryway table in matching cherry wood. For our outdoor patio we are considering an outdoor fireplace and we’ll go with a little inexpensive wicker furniture initially.
Furnishing a brand new house might seem so mature, but I can’t help but sense I’m merely playing house. The exercise equipment and furniture only feel as a new era of playthings.