My DH took the large mirror/shelving unit off our old bedroom set dresser and placed a wide melamine board from the hardware store on it. The length of the board is the same length as the room-9 ft, and the dresser is 4 1/2 feet, which gives lots of space on both sides of the dresser for storage. We placed 2x4's on top of the dresser and as brackets along the wall underneath the board for the height I needed the table to support the board. The Alto Quiltcut 2 is on one end of the cutting table, a large cutting mat is on the other end, with plenty of room in between for using the tracing box set up, drawing out patterns, cutting patterns, etc. The drawers of the dresser store items for ironing, scraps of fabric, and fusibles and stabilizers. The cutting table is very sturdy as the dresser is a heavy duty 1980's design. I use an old desk with side drawers for a small ironing board surface to the right of me when sewing, and a heavy duty roll-away table on the left for a small rotating cutting mat.