AngeliaNR

We've a very small lot, and our entire back yard is garden. My house is just under eight hundred square feet--one bedroom. I love our home, but I could use more sewing area!

DACO48

We have lived in the same house 43 years. We have a small ranch style home with a full finished basement. We live on 8 acres 10 miles from a college town with 35,000 students. We have 10,000 sq feet of lawn to mow (Any more it is about 9,995 feet too much) We are very involved with therapy horses for riders with disabilities. My husband hauls horses to and from the program twice a week from April to Oct. We have an adult daughter with a disability is why we got started with the program. She can't drive a car but boy can she ride her horse.

sharin'Sharon

My hubby and I live in a small town (village) where the state hiway runs past the front of our house. Our two story frame, 3BR Victorian style home is a hundred years old with approx. 1800 total square feet; we own a quarter of a town block (three lots) so have a large yard, a three car garage in back and of course, a HUGE garden. I have a few perenniel flower gardens hither and there and fill in with annuals and several planters in the summer and a 14x20 pond. Used to have several various fruit trees and a strawberry bed but now just ONE apple tree (had to make room for the garage and pad!). I wish I could put my sewing machine away during some months of the year like someone else mentioned but it is a stress reliever for me. Been retired for 3 yrs now but still have a lot of catch-up work to do.

Aurora

I have seven acres. About two and a half of them in woods.

Edie

I live in the City! My back yard is forty feet wide by forty (if not less) long. This takes care of the garage area - There is a patio about six feet wide and 12 feet long under the kitchen window where I can sit in the morning for a cup of coffee or iron! I love hanging my wash outside and then ironing the stuff on the patio (of course, listening to an audiobook). Both north and south sides are garden area as is the west side, except for the 8x8 shed, which is really sweet!!! I'd like to make a sewing room out of it, but I'd either freeze in the winter or roast in the summer! I am cutting down the garden size next spring - It is just getting to be too much and will concentrate on perennials and vegetables. I love the back yard, but I am very partial to my deck out front. Our house is quite small, but it was big enough to raise a son and live here comfortably (744 square feet, four rooms, not counting the bathroom or porch). I love my home. Small enough to mess up in five minutes and large enough to take two hours to clean it up!!!! Know what I mean?????? Have a good day. Edie

Edie

Sounds like my home! I just wrote about it and then backtracked a bit and there you were!!!!! We have Tiny Houses!!!!!!! (Ever see that show on TV?) Really neat show. They even had a quilter in a Tiny House of 250 sq. ft and it was unbelievable.

Enjoy your home as much as I enjoy mine. Big enough for two parakeets, one dog and me!!!! Edie

PS - Not to mention four sewing machines, stash, books and a quilting frame!!!!!!! I told my husband a few years back that he was really lucky to have me - because I could always dream about a long arm and know that there wasn't enough room to put it! Hence the plastic quilting frame, that I can take apart and put in a box and slide it under the bed.

grann of 6

Lynnie, I live in a small village on a private lane with 8 houses. No traffic and can look out my living room window on the community park. I am 9 miles from anywhere in any direction. I love it. I have a third of an acre, all fenced in. Just enough yard for me and my Great Dane. The small ranch was added onto some years before I bought it, so I have a large 2 car garage with my bedroom suite above it. I have my longarm in the living room and my sewing studio in the finished basement. I have the front yard as mostly perennial garden, part shade garden and part sun garden. I have wonderful neighbors who are also retired, so it is perfect. My kids all live within 10 minutes of me. DD has a 140 acre farm with a house built in 1790. George Washington peed on the trees on his march from Gettysburg to Valley Forge. LOL I love it out here in the sticks, used to live in a suburban development and hated it. I am a country girl at heart.

kydeb

I have a little over 10 acres which I share with my 2 horses and dog. Sometimes I think it's too much for a single, getting older more quickly than she would like female to maintain but I can't imagine living any other way!! I love it!!

carolynjo

We live on a lot about 3/4 acre and did have a huge garden--50 x 50' for years. Now we have stopped altogether because of health reasons. I dearly love to garden, but can't do it any more. My DH planted a 30' row of okra and greens by the side of the house --only 18" wide and that fed us all the greens we wanted. That's the extent of his gardening now. Wish I had a room for a studio now, but house is too small for that so I make do. Can't create as much as I used to, either.

Carol34446

We live on 4.77 acres, 4 fenced with 1 horse (great granddaughter of "the Black Stallion" 2 goldens and lots of Rat Terriers and 1 Siamese cat. It is getting harder as we get older 82 and 68 but have two rentals and it is quiet and peaceful here and neighbors do not bother each other, just wave hi. We have a 1200 SF mobile in between other two but for now we are here and will stay here. Just 4 miles from Gulf of Mexico and 7 rivers.
Not much room for quilting in here, too much stuff and pups.