From Start to Finish: How We Did This Gym Floor

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I got into sports flooring because my now-husband Steve’s family had a business. We started dating in high school and his family was like, “Oh, she can paint!” so I started painting and I thought, “Great, a summer job.” I worked there and went to college to earn my art degree. And after four years of college, I had a pretty good reputation for doing graphics and gym logos. It just became a career. It’s interesting as an artist to do gym floors because—I don’t know if other artists are like this—but you work a typical art project and you work it and work it and work it, and then, sometimes, you over-work it. But with a gym, you have to be done. You have to stop and walk away. And a lot of people were seeing my work, but it took until I was in college for one of my professors to say, “Hey, that’s kind of cool, and a lot of people see your artwork, whereas some of your fellow students here won’t have that experience.” As the owner of the company now, there’s a lot more that goes into creating a modern gym floor than there was back then, but it’s still very much an art. Here’s what goes into one of our gym floor projects.

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