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Im sewing in my dining / kitchen area right now because the light is so good there, but i do have an empty bedroom i could set up in, just feel out of the way in there. I have a small house, 1300 sq feet but its plenty big enough, just not using the space as well as i probably should. How big isnyour house, and where do you sew?
The master bedroom is my sewing room. It is the largest bedroom. The smallest bedroom is mine for sleeping. I spend a whole lot more time in the sewing room than I do awake hours in the bedroom.
What a fantastic idea! I am trying to get my quilting and knitting into one room, my daughter's bedroom. I don't have enough room. Our house is 1,300 sq ft also, big enough for my husband and me. But the master bedroom is used only at night and I could use that large space. Wait until he comes home and I spring that on him. Will have to work on it a bit but it is a wonderful idea.Originally Posted by SingerSewer
When we bought this house in 2000, there was a room framed but not finished, in the basement. My DH finished the room in 2004, and it's been my sewing room ever since. After I moved all my stuff in, we realized we should have extended the room to use one entire end of the basement! My sister-in-law has turned their living room in to her sewing room. The natural lighting isn't the best, but it works for her!
My sewing room is the spare bedroom. Plenty of room, large window, and right next to washer and dryer.
I sew all over the house except the kitchen and the baths. I have about 1800 square feet, a longarm in my den, and a treadle; there are 18 more machines in the other "spare" bedrooms, and a complete around the wall sewing center in one which contains three of my newer machines and includes two embroidery machines. There are also two other machines in there. In my other area, I have three additional machines and a serger; this room is also the home of my fabric. I have another treadle in my garage, and three more cabinet machines in my utility hallway. There are a total of four more sitting in various places throughout the house. Nearly all of them work except the last two that I bought need a bit of work. When you add in the amount of fabric and thread, accessories that I have, one would probably wonder where I fit in in this space. The answer is, I fit in pretty well!
I really need to add a couple more rooms on so I can spread out a bit more!
My favorite thing is to tell my kids how much fun they'll have when I'm gone!!
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Momto5
Same here, plus I have a door to the back yard to let my little dog out to wee.
June
My sewing room is a spare bedroom. 2 nice windows and on the main floor.
Now that all the kids are gone, I have a 4 bedroom house and I use them all. The two downstairs that are orginal to the house are small, so I started off using the smallest one, the switched to the bigger one( a little bigger anyways) and now I'm into serging and since my sewing room has no extra room I started using the other bedroom for serging and extra fabric. The two upstairs bedrooms are bigger and one is my master the other is set up with 2 full size beds, a playpen and dressers, all for when my grandkids spend the night. They all have a place to sleep and lots of times two of my kids stay at the same time and love all being able to sleep in the same room. My sister may be moving down here in April so I told them they'll lose thier room for a while and they love that idea because that means they'll be sleeping with Gi-Gi again like they used to do before my daughter moved out. I'm hoping to get my sunroom finished the right way this summer then half of it will have all of my sewing stuff set up in it and then I can have a spare room downstairs. We all learn how to do things. I like not having to take my machine up and down and get less sewing done when I used to have to do that. I like it always up and ready, even if I'm not.
Judy
When we built our house we didn't have kids (and thought we wouldn't) so one spare bedroom was the office and the other spare bedroom was my craft room. 3 years later we adopted - twice! - and there went the spare bedrooms! We moved my buddy's office into the bonus room's alcove / dormer area (there's a pool table occupying the rest of the bonus room), and I was using whatever space I could find for my sewing and crafts (usually the kitchen table). I have since moved things around in our master bedroom and was able to configure a dedicated sewing area. It's cosy, but works great!
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