My kids (3) had moved out before I started quilting. I started on the dining room table, but it was hard to do every thing there. I pinned my quilts on the kitchen floor. Then I moved into my oldest son's room (9' X 15'). It was great! But...I was still using the kitchen floor to pin. So I began to look at LA's...couldn't afford an expensive one. We got a good tax return that year and DH said to "go for it". My Voyager 17 with the 10' frame fit the room, but I didn't have room for everything else. So I cleaned out the walk-in closet which was 5' X 8' and moved everthing else in there....except the ironing board and the big cutting board which went in the other spare bedroom and the office! When my grandkids came to visit, the girls slept in the camper or livingroom and the boys slept under the quilting frame. About a year ago, we purchased a 14' X 24' shed and finished it off. Now everything is out there and I have two guest rooms and a futon in the office.