I was lucky as I had custom bookcases built for my Florida home and brought them with me to Iowa. They are doors on the bottom half and removable open shelves on the top. My cutting table is sitting on top of the two bases cabinets with their doors facing outward on each end. My cutting table is 4' x 8'. THen I added brackets on the backside of the cabinets for another shelf underneath to keep all my shoebox totes full of scraps, orphan blocks and fat quarters. Also have room for a trash can and my larger rulers that don't fit my pegboard. The top half of my bookcases are now in my upstairs library housing my large collection of hardback books I hope to read someday.....if time ever permits it. Too much fun down here in the sewing room keeps me from reading those books.