Your sewing/dining room looks just like mine used to...I sewed that way for at least 20 years. Now that our son has moved out, I have taken over his room upstairs....have had it over a year now and I can't sew in it at all!!!! I am not kidding...it seems so far away from the rest of the house. So, now that both college daughters have moved home for the summer, my sewing room has become a big catch-all room...can't even get to my sewing machine. It is absolutely embarassing/discouraging. The most memorable times in my dining/sewing room were the 4H years...one girl would be doing pinning/etc. and the other would be yanking thread off the machine in order to rethread it for her project. Amazing how they both managed to end up with champions...they easily could have messed up their projects! It is funny now...was frustrating back then.