Since I have a machine quilter and a sewing table, I have my sewing room in the basement. I am lucky enough that 1/2 of the basement, yep 1/4 of the whole house is my sewing room. I know some people want to be with everybody else but in the basement it's my space. I can listen to music without bothering others, be messy if I want and not worry about company seeing it and have my UFO's strung out all over so that I know they need to be finished. We planned for the amount of space I needed when buying a house.