I work in the basement and have converted my sons bedroom, (he is a US Marine in Japan for a couple of years) into my storage area. I use my large 10 seat dining room table as my storage for all my cutting items, but my material is laid on his bed. That's my storage unit and so far it works ok.....I'm lucky my dh doesn't ask me to clean up the room, at least not until my son comes home and need a place to sleep