Birth Of A Power Tower

Don't you just LOVE new toys? Putting together the power tower didn't take as much work as I thought it would. You just need a few basic tools... And slave labor!















Ok, ok, I know... I should help....


OK, really I just harassed the heck out of him. It's what I am best at, after all!

Besides, never try and help a rocket-scientist putting together something. They get witchy... And don't even THINK about suggesting they read the instructions!







Then you MUST try it out......






Wait....Something doesn't seem right.....















HOUSTON!! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!

It turns out our ceilings are a bit low in the basement. Not THAT low, they're about 7.5 feet (most houses are 8ft ceilings) but it turns out that 6 inches is IMPORTANT if you want to do a FULL chin-up!

We ended up having to move the tower into the toy room, and out of the exercise room, so we could pull out a ceiling tile and be able to finish the movement. My basement is starting to look stranger and stranger.

I'm trying to find a way to get the power tower back into my exercise room, but it's getting really crowded (the pic was before we moved it into the toy room area.) A lot of the ceiling tiles in the exercise room are smack up against pipes too, so we can't remove them and gain any space. I keep trying to tell DH it'll look lovely in the family room, but he isn't buying it....