I've been downsizing with every move since 2006 - there have been 5, now - and am finally in a senior patio home complex with one bedroom @ 540 sq. ft. I use my living room as my sewing space. My mother who used to live in this same complex used her bedroom and that was really tight. I like to read in bed and take an afternoon nap many days, so I wanted my bedroom to be my neat place of retreat.
I don't care if my living room has the things I love to do in it because my friends have already been told they will have to sit on a rolling chair "in the midst' if they drop by.
My house, my use, right?!
Jan in VA