A few years ago we were thinking about moving to a different house and went to look at a house. It had a beautiful large loft area. It was completely packed with fabric, sewing machines, UFOs and everything else that all of us have in our quilting rooms. The woman of the house was there and sincerely apologized for the state of the loft. I laughed and said it did not bother me at all and that it would look exactly the same if we moved into that house. (We did not buy that house, but not for that reason of the loft condition.)
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