Wow! It is a great space for your mom & you. Nice & big & great light too. Congradulations! You will have hours of fun & memories in there.

Fantastic!

Now that is a ROOM!!!!!! would I love that or what - so lucky you are. You ROCK!!!!

Whoa. You have enought room to invite us all over to sew. lol.

wow Lizzy, that is sweeet...I drug my hubby in here to show him your pictures... Just so he would think he was lucky I'm only asking him to take apart one of my desks a second time ( cause I can't make up my mind what's the most functional set up for my little spare room) instead of asking for what your pics show...he was like.. "Wow,...double take....daaang"..lol

Green with jealousy!

Congrats on such a large and lovely space. I love that you repurposed some items, I have also, but do not have such a large room.:)

iwant to come and play!

Wow, that is just awesome! What did you use to make your ironing station? Does it need ventilation like a metal store bought ironing board? Can you use plywood or something similar?

I love it i would be in there 24 7 if it was mine

Not only is your room amazing but it's amazing you get to spend time with your Mom. Making wonderful memories!

I used a 24x66 inch piece of 3/4 inch plywood covered with a doubled wool batting and then with muslin. I pulled the batting tight and taped it down temporarily while I pulled the muslin tight and stapled the muslin. I figured I'd redo the muslin at some point but not the batting so didn't staple the bat. I'm going to make an elastic cover out of the silver ironing board fabric one of these days....just haven't gotten around to it! The 3/4 inch plywood is heavy enough to 'stay put' and I don't worry about it warping.

Truly a beautiful space for your mom and you to share creativity. May I ask where you got your fabric shelves?

I built them myself - There are three 3x8 foot units.

I used 3/4 inch high grade plywood (finished on both sides). I wanted 14-16 inch storage so to make the best use of the sheet of plywood, I made the units 16" deep. This allowed me to get the 6 sides out of 2 full sheets.
Since I knew ahead of time that I was also going to build a 12" deep cabinet style design board, I did a 12"x8' cut on 5 sheets (to be used as sides/shelves on the cabinet) and the remaining 3x8' board worked out to 6 16"x36" fabric shelves per board. I decided on 36" rather than 48" shelves hoping that they would not sag...time will tell! The fabric is wrapped around an 8" ruler and allows a little 'wiggle' room for the 4 stacks per shelf.

I used 1x2 pine to support the shelves; 1x4 for trim on bottom/between shelf sections and 1x3 trim on top to hide the top of the units and to give it a finished look tying the three together.

Probably more information than you wanted or needed, but in case anyone else is curious or wants to build something similar, decided to 'go for it' and tell you how they came to be!

Fantastic, awesome. I can see you and your mom smiling right now. You both are probably hi-fiving each other. Great job. You have just inspired me. Love everything about both sides of the room. What a wonderful way to share with your mom.

ps...you may have to add a bed because I don't forse either of you sleeping anywhere else.

Your sewing room in beautiful. You are so lucky. My dad made me a board to fit over my ironing board. I ordered my cover on the computer from Bo-Nash. It is the silver cover and sticks to the board. I love this and never use a regular ironing board now.

O I'm green with envy :mrgreen: your sewing room is so
awesome,lucky you. It is so great that your DM gets to work
right there with you how sweet is that. Enjoy your space
Lady;s. :D

What an amazing space! You ladies are very lucky!!

I thought my new sewing space was wonderful but yours beats mine! Unfortunately mine had carpet already and my DH wouldn't let me pull it up. I know it has tile under it but he still wouldn't let me. I inheireted(sp) my sisters appartment, which we own, for a sewing room. It is a small appt but one bedroom holds my long arm Inova and the other bedroom holds my sewing machine, cutting table, big padded table and my designing wall and an embrodery machine that I never use. It is manual and I never mastered it hence never used. But still, I am happy with it and am in the process of organizing my stash. The LR and the kitchen hopefully will still function after I finally get everything organized. That way company can use the hideabed couch and have their own bathroom, not that we have much company tho. I will try to post pix when I get done. I LOVE yours! I too used several 6 drawer chests.

I am envious of your whole apartment location!!!! We don't have any room for guests other than the oversize sleeper chairs in the living room so there is little privacy for family that stays over.....they don't particularly care though so that's good! There was 'some thought' about making space in the room for guests but that went by the wayside pretty quickly as it filled up with all of our 'stuff'! I do have room for a longarm but so far have resisted the urge to own one. I rent time on one locally and let them deal with the upkeep and repairs etc. I'll probably give in one of these days....
Please post pictures - I'm always anxious to get new ideas and love to 'take a peek' inside everyones space :-) Never ceases to amaze me the unique ideas out there that can be incorporated into your own space to make it better.

This has to be the nicest room ever shown on this board!
I love the way you used the dressers under your cutting and pressing surfaces!

I am envious!!!! What a beautiful space!!!

I love the natural light from the windows!!

Wow, what a wonderful place to work on crafting!!! I am soooo envious!!!

I printed out your pictures to get an idea of how to set my room up, when we get it finished. Love all the light and windows. Mine will be in the basement, but we will have a 6' French Door in there to help get light. I am also going to put a large mirror on one wall to help reflect the light and it will also make my room look much larger. Thanks for all the ideas! You should be so very proud!

Lizzygail, it is wonderful you can have this space to share with your Mother. The room is totally awesome. (Your thinking "Yes it is" :) :thumbup: ). I am so happy for you to have it to enjoy. You gave me several ideas and food for thought. I think I have not seen a design wall used as cabinet doors. This is one of the ideas I want to use. Enjoy every moment. It is awesome.

I hope you spend lots of wonderful hours there with your Mom. Great room!

You probably can't see it very well, but one thing some of my quilting friends thought was a good idea is the curtain rod that is attached to the top of the design wall cabinet. I use skirt/pants hangers to hang a large quilt to audition borders or just to hang it once pressed and ready for quilting. It also allows me to put new quilt blocks on the wall even if the first quilt is not totally complete. I just gently move it to one side and it stays neatly pressed while I work on the new blocks and arrangement. I did this when I was in another room with the design wall directly attached to the wall. Same idea - allowed me to be working on several projects in different stages at once.

Awesome!!!

What a spectacular space!

OMG! Love your organized fabric cabinet!!!!!!!!

OMG, I would think I was in quilting heaven if I had such an awesome room!!!! And, you get to share this with your Mom, double envy here! It is wonderful space and the precious years of fun you are going to have together is wonderful!

very well designed, I see that even your dog has a place there. Hope you all have lots of fun there

What an amazing room! I bet the two of you get very creative in there!!

What a great sewing room and painting room. I know that you will enjoy it with your mom there with you. You do have a great place to sew. Have fun making great projects.

What a great space. What a great way to spend time with your Mom. It is just perfect. I hope you both have many happy hours crafting, sewing, painting and just enjoying each other's company.

WOW. The best part of wakeing up is being able to spend these times with your Mom. Congratulations on such a lovely room. As said the memories made here are priceless. Have fun. BrendaK

This is such a special and beautiful space. Enjoy it and each other. Can't wait to see what you both create.

So nice! I am happy for you!

Beautiful and well-thought-out room. Very good lighting and love your use of the dressers. I also like that the floor plug is in just the right place. I am so happy for you and your mother! Enjoy!