I, too, am blessed with a husband who makes beautiful furniture. Several years ago he made me a cabinet for my sewing machine. It has a hole and lift for my machine, lots and lots of drawers and a flip-up extension on the back for use when I'm quilting. The areas on each side (left of and right of) the machine are long so I have a lot of space to the left for fabric and to the right for things like my notion basket, the phone, a small radio, my machine foot case, etc. On the left there are four drawers (two shallow for pins and needles) and two deep for machine accessories and the manual, as well as garment sewing notions like a tailor's ham, sleeve roll, etc. There are five shallow drawers on the right for things like bobbins, thread spools, scissors and shears, quilting patterns, and such. He also made a small cabinet with an extension the slides onto the right side of the main cabinet with a knee hole opening and a couple of more drawers for use with a serger (when I get one) and some book storage.
Having used it for a while, I would change a few things about it, but I'm not going to complain. It's awesome just the way it isl
Last year he made me a new matching cutting table to my specifications and it, too, is fabulous! It's about 6 ft. long and 2 ft. deep. There are drawers on each side of a large opening in the middle where I store batting and my rotating cutting mat. The right-hand drawers hold my scrap pieces cut to size (2", 2.5", 3", 3.t", 4", and 5", as well as strips in these sizes. In the left-hand drawers I store my quilt-making tools and stencils, as well as WIPs, orphan blocks, and miscellaneous "stuff". I have a large pegboard on the wall above the cutting table for rulers, rotary cutters, yard sticks, and other useful notions. My design wall is to the left of my cutting table. Altogether, it's a really sweet set-up. I truly am blessed.