Well what I have done since our granddaughter has been living with us is use the dining room. I have a drop leaf table I use for sewing with the leaf on one side up and when we use the dining room I put the machine under it and put a long table so no one knows it's even there. My fabric is in baskets under that same table and in the drawers of our linen closet. I use the dining room table for cutting. I just make sure I have a table pad on it before I put the cutting mat there. Most of the time when it's just the three of us my sewing is out. We only have a two bedroom so thread and stuff like that is in decorative bins and blended in with books on the bookshelves and I keep an empty wicker basket to put sewing in when there's company.