DH and I have a house rule: If we don't use something in a 12 month period, then it's gone and not worth keeping. While Spring Cleaning this past Spring, we were going through everything in the dining room when it occurred to us both that we only ever use the dining room when I need to pin a quilt since we bought our kitchen table. My sewing room was too small for me to do any pinning in there or even quilting for that matter. Soooo, that led to us nixing the dining room and turning it into a sewing room. At the time that we made that decision, our oldest DD came to us and asked if she could have her own room so it all worked out in the end. She's happily settled in the old sewing room and I'm happy with more elbow room...which I definitely do need since both of my DD's sew alongside of me with their own machines.