can you take out the shelves and cut the width of them down. Than you could store things in there to , my close shelves are only about 12 inches wide , than i store cloth on the botton that i dont use as often, than i set my extion table in front of that part of the shelves, and my small ironing board. If you make ur shelves narrower, u can also put shelves on the sides of your closet to. Have fun playing in your sewing room.