That was my sewing room in our old house. I had two closets (actually one closet with two french doors) all along one wall - great for storage of fabric (my 3/4s of the space) and office stuff (hubby's area). The rest of the area was open. We did have the mechanical stuff in the garage as well (furnace/water heater/water softner). We had partitioned off an area about 7 foot by 14 for that. It was marvelous because one wall of the utility room area was shelves for pantry storage. This is a photo of just half the closet. I calculated one time that I had almost 900 yards of fabric in that closet.
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