Our house is 1500 sq ft. I have one of our 3 bedrooms as a sewing/guest room (although we rarely, if ever use it for that purpose). It is upstairs as is our laundry so convenient from that perspective. I machine piece and hand quilt. I do all my machine work upstairs when hubs is either working or gone otherwise. Evenings I hand quilt in the LR while hubs is home and we're watching TV. Can just shut the door to the room upstairs and don't need to worry about what it looks like. Works for me.