It may be more of a "mess" right now than you would like, Cathy, but it's the most interesting "mess" I've seen in a long time! The shelves at the end of the long arm are a wonderful idea. If you have vertical space to spare, why couldn't you make a sort of stairs and landings - and each landing holds a treadle that you don't use a lot. Each is a step or two higher than the last one. You would need 6 or 7 feet at the end of a room, 4 feet for the treadle and 2-3 feet for the steps on the side, and you could house machines as high as the room would take. The treadles would open into the stair space when you are actually using them. Does this make sense? And if you designed it right, you would also have plenty of under-stairs storage, custom made for your needs. You could have pegboards or whatever else on the wall by each machine. Talk about handy! OR you could have more machine storage under the stairs. Or room for more machines set up and ready to sew. Whatever you can imagine, you can have. It's easy construction.
Are you sure you need the dishes in there?
Despite all the hard work it takes, this is very exciting. Have you thought how you will decorate it? Why not with items from the time span of the machines, or maybe advertisements for the machines?
Last edited by cricket_iscute; 05-10-2015 at 06:22 PM.