One of the longarm quilters in my area remodeled her house by enclosing the garage and turning half of it into a dining room and the other half into her longarm room and then they added on a whole new garage. The half of the room that was turned into the longarm room is really just barely big enough. There's a walkway down each side of the machine and a walkway from the new garage thru to the dining area and the rest of the house along one end. Longarms take up a whole lot of room.