My sewing room is also the guest room, but we don't have that many guests because we live in rural Vermont. It's a long way from anywhere else and I guess people think there's nothing to do here. Are they wrong! At any rate, I have a double bed that I use as a design wall and it also as storage for quilts that lay flat on it. I use it to lay out quilts for basting unless they are gigantic, but lately I've been taking larger quilts to a long armer anyway. If guests do come, I do clean up and I also prepare handwork before they come. We're usually too busy with them anyway so I don't need the machine - unless they bring their mending as my brother did one time. I taught him about Stitch Witchery on that visit!