How to have your professional sports amenity at home: 5 ideas

If you’ve ever dreamed about establishing a professional-grade sports convenience at home, you should know that your dream can come true, as there’s probably a company that can make that dream become a fact. Whether you like the thought of bowling or dribbling on the best court, skating on quality ice, or any other sport, the following companies can help you bring that sport at home.

Bowling

Looking for an outstanding social activity? Try bowling, and if you have a predilection for entertaining, you will definitely like the thought of adding a few lanes to your house. But beware, as modifying a home with regulation-size parcels might be challenging, since a few lanes normally need an area 100 feet long and 15–20 feet wide. An architect would tell you that you should design this room in your house from the very beginning of your home construction, as bowling alleys are long - altough they seem short, an optical illusion. Fusion Bowling for example specializes in residential lanes, so the business utilizes the industry’s best-performing machinery.

The company also takes on custom assignments, which generally have unique wood styles, like dark maple or gray, and a multitude of different aesthetic qualities. You can find them at fusionbowling.com.

Ice skating

More than twenty years ago, an ex-NHL player - Dave Gagner -commissioned the creation of a personal outdoor ice rink in the backyard. This led to the formation of Custom Ice Inc., a firm that now is a specialist in private residential skating areas, with prices starting from $30,000. What is more, Custom Ice can build for you permanent outdoor rinks for skating 16 weeks per year. The company can also design and build insulated indoor rinks, if you want one.

On the contrary, Custom Ice doesn’t build the facilities that will accommodate a rink, but they can collaborate with general contractors, developers, and architects and team up to install all the rink features. Just so you know, they already have more than a thousand projects completed so the firm will be able to take on an extensive collection of unique missions. Over time, they have designed and built rinks equipped with player boxes, score timepieces, sound systems, lighting, and not to mention elegant dressing rooms. Learn more about them at customicerinks.com.

Basketball

SportProsUSA can also make your dreams come true. How? Well, the firm can’t get you into an arena and it can’t put you on their individual basketball courts. However, they can design and build an indoor court for your home that delivers the same quality playing experience. Plus, you can have a scorebord, wall graphics and even NBA seats! How awesome is that? The company is specialized in high-end residential basketball courts since 2006. Nowadays, they are able to install a basketball court with all the systems made by a company that has previously provided NBA arenas for almost half a century!  Find out more at sportprosusa.com.

Surfing

Ar you a fan of the Royal Caribbean cruise? Then you're in luck, because now you can have your own private water park with the help of FlowRider. Because they have a standing wave system for surfing, and we're truly impressed by what they can build. Another fun fact is that FlowRider systems can be put in private residences. So far, about a dozen of those home installations have been finished, though that number could increase a lot now that the firm has a new model, the FlowRider Edge. The space needed for a commercial model isn't very large, and so it isn't for your home either, and the price is quite low compared to other companies on the market. Just pick the product that you want in the backyard. Each FlowRider prototype is an elongation of the exact stationary wave system. And with FlowRider Edge, the wave height was lowered and the product has an inflatable ride surface, making it less intimidating - and also a lot more comfy. Learn more at flowrider.com.

Golf

Ultimately, for all the golf lovers who need more practice at home, you can do it in style and with almost zero maintenance. How? By getting an artificial surface designed and built by Back Nine Greens. It's been more than 20 years since the company has started creating spaces for golfers in the comfort of their residences, including for professional players. One such player actually entered the company as a partner! So they really know what they're doing back in your yard.

They have a luxury division designing and building detailed setting gardens with synthetic bunkers in different shapes and sizes. These bunkers are created of a more stringy kind turf than the styles used for the actual putting area. But they are realistic. As for the cost of plain Back Nine green without the bunkers, it begins at $18 per square foot. With the bunkers, it can reach $40 per square foot. They also do luxury commissions, and you can learn more at backninegreens.com.