Liftstead · a home gym design + build studio
We measure your room, render it in 3D, curate the kit to how you train, and build it turnkey.
Concept room, drawn to our build spec. Design study, unbuilt.
Bought fast, crammed in a corner, wrong floor, no mirror, dead light. We start from the room itself: what the floor carries, where the light lands, how you move through a session. The equipment comes last, and then it fits.
Architecture studios show unbuilt work with pride, so we do the same. Each study is a complete room program: a named space, a real constraint, and a kit cited from published manufacturer specs. As client builds complete, they will join these pages.
Design study, unbuilt concept480 sq ft · strength-first
The constraint: a vaulted ridge. Everything tall, the 93 in rack and the pull-up bar, lives under the peak.
Design study, unbuilt concept400 sq ft · family setup
The constraint: the cars stay. The rack folds flat to the wall and the whole program lives on one side.
Design study, unbuilt concept7 ft 2 in ceilings · conditioning-first
The constraint: 86 in of ceiling. Overhead work comes off the plan, and the volume moves to the bike.
Every study is labeled what it is: an unbuilt concept. Manufacturer names and specs come from their published product listings, and nothing here implies a completed client project.
Numbers on this page are material facts and published manufacturer specs, never performance promises.
We cannot show client outcomes yet, so we show the tooling instead: what we capture, what we draw, and what we check before we hand you the room.
Our studies spec commercial-grade pieces from makers lifters already trust, like Rogue, REP, and Titan, cited by SKU and published spec.
Working with a builder or architect? We plan the gym into the drawings, covering electrical, ventilation, floor loading, and slab prep, before the walls close.
The brief keeps widening: strength, cardio, recovery, a quiet hour with the door closed. Call it a wellness space if you like. We design it as one room, in the materials and light of the house it belongs to.
No guessing. You approve the exact room, from layout to equipment to finishes, in a 3D render first.
Design, product, and installation in a single number with a single point of contact. No surprise trades.
Load-rated floors, real anchoring, proper ventilation and light. Installed by licensed installers, not a delivery drop.
A new studio, so we're building our portfolio now. The cards above describe our process, not client testimonials, and we won't fabricate any.
We start with a conversation about how you train, who uses the room, and what the space needs to do. Then we measure your room on-site, photograph it, and note ceiling heights, floor construction, access, electrical, and ventilation. From that we build a 3D render of your exact room with the layout, equipment, flooring, mirrors, and lighting placed, and you review it before anything is ordered. The consultation ends with one fixed design and build quote for the whole project.
No. Most clients want the turnkey path, where we source, deliver, assemble, and haul away packaging, because a single point of contact is most of the value. But if you already own a rack or a bike you love, we design around it. The design fee and build quote reflect only the scope you actually need.
It depends on what you do. Full-size power racks commonly run about 72 to 93 inches tall in manufacturer catalogs, so many standard 8-foot (96-inch) ceilings fit a rack, sometimes with little margin. Standing overhead pressing needs clear space above your reach, and jumping or jump rope needs more. Shorter racks, wall-mounted folding racks, and seated pressing keep lower rooms workable. These figures are typical manufacturer specs, and part of the consultation is checking your exact ceiling against your exact training.
Usually a residential slab handles general training comfortably, but slab thickness, condition, and what sits under it vary house to house, and heavy dropped loads are their own case. We are not structural engineers, and where slab capacity or a framed floor is genuinely in question we say so and recommend a licensed structural engineer before the build. What we control is the layer above: load-rated flooring and platform construction that spread and absorb impact.
Typical projects move through three phases: the consultation and 3D design, the quote and ordering window, then the build itself. Design is usually the fastest part; equipment lead times vary the most and depend on what is in stock; install for most single-room projects is measured in days, not weeks. Because scope and lead times genuinely vary, we put real dates in your quote rather than promising an average here.
Yes. If the gym is part of a new build or a renovation, the best time to plan it is before the walls close. We work from your drawings and coordinate the details a gym needs early: electrical for cardio and AV, ventilation, floor loading, ceiling height, and slab or subfloor prep, and we hand your builder a clean spec.
Four of our planning instruments, in your browser. No signup, no email. The same questions we work through in a consultation.
Enter your room and ceiling. See what genuinely fits.
Room size + training style, matched to a setup category.
Typical investment ranges by room type and scope.
Rubber thickness, subfloors, and slab questions, straight.
We measure, we render your exact space in 3D, and you decide with the whole picture in front of you.
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