I use my counter top between my kitchen and sewing room, ex living room. The counter is about 36 x 60". It's my cutting and Ironing board. Works for me. My sewing room was at one time my living room, which I never used anymore. So I threw out the couch and chairs, pulled my sewing stuff from my bedroom and set up a real nice sewing room. and since I eat dinner all over the house, lol. Mostly in my bedroom where the big TV is. I turned my living room into my sewing room. If anyone comes to see me, they sit in sewing room and talk to me or watch the TV I have mounted on the wall. Now that I have more room to sew, it's not so messy anymore. I have a place for everything.