My daughter and son got me the cutting table and cutting mat from JoAnn's one year for Christmas. When I am cutting I put it all up. If I have people coming to sleep over or want the room, I put it away and roll the matt back up. I often put only one side up with my cutting mat on it. When we are at our "Vacation AKA Work place) I put my mat on the end of an old school teacher's desk.