How many of you actually have sewing studio/room
#71
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Texas
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We have a 3 bedroom house. Thank goodness our children live very close as I use 1 bedroom for my sewing studio and my husband uses the other as a music studio. I would move to the living room since we don't use it but it is one of those open concept houses built about 30 years ago and has no walls except the front and side of the house.
mltquilt
mltquilt
#72
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 211
My sewing room is 1/3 of the basement. Some shelving/storage racks, the ironing board stays up and I have pegboard on the wall to hang items. There is a hanging clothes bar, one that is used in a car. Hubby suspended it from the ceiling.
Now here's the kicker: My cutting table is a regulation slate top pool table with a huge formica top from a manufacturing company that went out of business. I clear-taped a fabric 1 1/2 yard tape measure along one side for quick measuring and Hubby made me a T-square that fits over the end of the top for absolute straight marking.
But there is a down-side. When the temps go below 15 outside the basement is just waaaayyyy to cold to work in.
Oh and I keep a dehumidifier right beside my machines.
Just wish I had a couple large windows for natural light.
Now here's the kicker: My cutting table is a regulation slate top pool table with a huge formica top from a manufacturing company that went out of business. I clear-taped a fabric 1 1/2 yard tape measure along one side for quick measuring and Hubby made me a T-square that fits over the end of the top for absolute straight marking.
But there is a down-side. When the temps go below 15 outside the basement is just waaaayyyy to cold to work in.
Oh and I keep a dehumidifier right beside my machines.
Just wish I had a couple large windows for natural light.
#73
When we built this house we made sure that one of the extra bedrooms were big enough to hold our 13 ft quilting machine and an additional machine I use only as a binding machine. The computer also shares the room so when I want to sew I go into the living room put up a couple tables and SPREAD OUT. I do have my stash in the large closet in the sewing/computer room thats also spills under the quilting and binding machines...would be nice to build on and c double the size of the room.
#75
My sewing room was a bedroom also. It is plenty big for me to work in and I can keep my ironing board up all the time. If it gets messy, I can close the door. But I love it, I can go in there and sew, or just sit there and think or listen to music. Once in awhile DH will come in and sit and talk. He is my biggest supporter!
#76
Originally Posted by quiltsillysandi
I was in progress of converting a 3rd bedroom, until my nephew needed a place to stay....As soon as he moves, then I will have a room dedicated for my sewing, plus it will need to serve as a guest room...Right now my cutting table, machine/table, ironing board, ect., is all in my bedroom...Trying to navigate is quite challenging at times...lol
San
FL
San
FL
#77
I was very blessed to have built a new home this past June, and hubby gave me a big, beautiful room with tons of windows. Love love love it. Here's some pictures: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...78470011jjMxMP
It's much more 'lived in' now 6 months later. Some of these pictures makes it look empty! I sew on all treadle & hand cranks, so when I picked out the light fixtures I chose all 'old fashioned' looking ones. I wish I had more time to be in there!
I'm a very blessed girl...
It's much more 'lived in' now 6 months later. Some of these pictures makes it look empty! I sew on all treadle & hand cranks, so when I picked out the light fixtures I chose all 'old fashioned' looking ones. I wish I had more time to be in there!
I'm a very blessed girl...
#79
I do have a whole room now. My first space for many years was my machine set up in the laundry room. Then my boys went off to college. (both married now) My husband left after 24 years and I had a room for my sewing. A few years later I remarried, gave up my sewing room for one of my husbands kids. Now his kids are gone and I have my room back. The house is way too big for the two of us. Looking to sell and build or buy smaller, but planning the basement for my sewing room, so I can get my longarm. I could have the basement in this house, but we don't heat it in the winter and it stays at about 55 degrees. Burrrrrr
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