Originally Posted by
chamby
I was just wondering how many of you have your sewing studio in your basement. Also how many of you do not have windows in your basement area? I am going to need to set up an extra area in my basement and wondered how to make it more cheery. I have my main sewing up area in a small extra room up stairs. But will need a larger area for quilting and storage. So this is why I need the space in the basement. My basement is very dry so there is no moisture problem.
My sewing studio is in the basement, walk-out level of the house. The room is half spare bedroom and half sewing studio. The lighting comes from the northeast so I rely on extra artificial lighting. I store my fabric in one of the large louvered closets where I have a removable plastic shelving system (from Walmart -type store). There was carpeting on the floor and we kept it.The room is pretty dry.
I needed more room since I saw that I was collecting a lot of extras, so these past several weeks I converted our gas furnace/water purifying system) room to an overflow room. It is right next door to the bedroom/sewing studio. We painted the one block wall with a sealer/primer paint, as well as the other walls of sheetrock. Pure white. DH put up pure white fluorescent fixtures, the light vinyl floor was scrubbed with chlorine bleach solution. A very bright room, nothing fancy but lots of storage. There's a de-humidifier in there going all the time during this summer weather. There are two movable shelving systems holding UFOs, scraps of different sizes, all Batik, flannels, specialty fabs, knitting yarns, and on and on. I even moved the storage stacked drawers which hold notions to that new room. All plastic bins are labeled. This room isn't heated, but I don't intend to be in the room for any amount of time other than to get one thing or another. It's not a fancy finished room, but it's bright, clean and it gives me so much extra space to store ONLY sewingknitting supplies. I was able to downsize a lot of unnecessary items and store all Christmas and seasonal stuff in the garage. It was a big job, but now the sewing room is tidier and more conducive to a spare bedroom. I can see what I have, too. Good luck! I'm sure you'll be amazed at what extra room you can find and arrange.