LOL! I love all of these suggestions and love the idea of a secret drawer! DH and I have considered the stair lifts, but at this point, it's not doable. We've set a budget per room and we're already rearranging things because we found out that the attic floor was rotting. Bummer. But, we're so thankful that we found this out now, rather than later. That's all fixed now and we can get back to finishing the sewing room! I'm picking up the new flooring, flooring pad and subflooring tomorrow! The new floor will be installed this weekend, along with new floor joists, all new wiring and maybe even the new windows. Then we'll insulate everything and next week we can start to look at drywall and get that done. I even found the perfect paint, on clearance for $10/can because it was a "mis-tint"! It's a beautiful, calming shade of blue and perfect for what I wanted.
Most of the furniture in my sewing room is grey since DH's store had a remodel a few years ago and I scored big time. Their former coffee station was taller than most tables and measured 30"x36"---the EXACT measurement of my cutting mat! And it had plenty of storage room below. And his former laptop kiosk is perfect for my sewing machines with plenty of storage on the the shelf below and the large shelf above. I can't wait to get everything into it's new place and get to creating! Since we're remodeling upstairs, a lot of things had to find some new temporary home downstairs...and that overflowed into my sewing room. I just keep reminding myself that it's all temporary.
Once the sewing room is complete and everything's moved in, then we'll remodel the downstairs room to be our new bedroom. It's in desperate need of new flooring and new windows, but other than that, the rest is cosmetic work. Then we'll be in our new room and our former room will be repainted, get new flooring and new windows for our youngest DD. Then her room will get redone for our oldest DD and her room will get redone as a great store room for the things that cannot go to the attic, and my HUMONGOUS board game collection, lol. Then we'll just repaint the hallway and retread the stairs. We're hoping to have all of this done by the end of summer so we can then work on the bathroom remodel and kitchen remodel before winter hits. Thankfully, that will just leave the living room and aside from new windows and flooring, that's just cosmetic work. Then DH wants to reside the house in the fall. Any other cosmetic work can be done over the winter. THEN, in the spring comes the outdoor remodel. We're hoping to enclose our front porch as a mudroom and attach a wraparound porch to connect with our back deck and wrap that around the back to our new bedroom that will have a new sliding glass door. Then my sweet youngest DD will take over on gardening, lol. DH tells people that I don't have a black thumb, I have an apocalyptic thumb. So my DD, who will be eleven by then, will be giving me the directions, lol. I'll just be the one with the debit card at the store. LOL!