I am having such a good time reading all your responses to this topic. Walkie talkies sound like a good idea!!! Once we get our land phones hooked up we can actually buzz each other on our extensions.

Happy sewing to all of you where ever you sew and whomever shares it with you!

My sewing room is in a spare bedroom used when the grandchildren spend the night. The room also has our computer which the hubby uses at night and I sit right behind him at the sewing machine. He likes to go on e-bay and look at all the vintage machines for sale. So when he says "look at this one" I just have to glance over his shoulder. We are in the process of building a sewing studio when that's finished we will have to do something else to talk. But, the room will have a wood cook stove so I know in the winter months he will be sitting with me a lot.

When we moved to the ranch 17 years ago I took over a bedroom up stairs and it is my sewing room, office and computer station. Over the years I have rearranged it to be more sewing room than office space. (Who wants to do bookwork if you can sew right?) It works but wish I could have the whole room for sewing. DH has his computer in the next bedroom so he is either there or in the living room watching tv. I listen to old time radio stories on the computer while quilting. I sometimes think I would like a tv in here but love the old stories. After 47 years we hollar to each other if needed. Works for us.

My dh and I both quilt (although I much more than he) so we are in the same room ( converted double car garage.) Love it when we are together. We also work together, so I also enjoy my alone time in the "studio". Been married for 46 years and quilting together for 15.

Do you have a Singer 201 ? The next best thing to a "silent" machine.

Cell phones work great

My hubby and I work together in our basement. He does his Bible studies for Sunday school while I quilt. We do have a TV and radio. We sometimes listen to talk shows. When I was in the basement and he was upstairs in the computer room we used a baby monitor for communication. Might be an answer to talking with each other.

DH & I have taken over the dining room. We don't eat in there, it's colder at both ends of the house (he's on one end & I'm at the other end), we can both see the TV from there & we're together. He complains about my quilting a lot less now that he's seeing what I really do with my time.

HOWEVER, he went to WalMart by himself on Thursday. Now he's talking about a big flat screen! His question to me actually was "What do you want to do with that?" He was pointing to the entertainment center at the time. We paid big bucks for it! I said it could go in our bedroom with the TV that it was bought for in it. nI asked, "What are you going to do for a TV?" Then he told me what he was up to!

Great idea. Right now I use a baby monitor when I am embroidering. I listen for the beep for broken thread, or the empty bobbin alarm or thread change stop. I do this if I am on the main floor as my sewing room is in the upstairs. Works great.

This has really been fun to read and find out what everyone is doing for their sewing "space". I love my space for sewing. I have our loft for sewing on one end and my paper crafts on the other. DH is usually downstairs watching tv but because it is a loft and it is all open, we can carry on a conversation with no problem.

I use to sew at the dinning room table within talking distance of my husband and listening distance of the TV. I moved upstairs into a small bedroom. I find myself coming down every 15 mins. to see what's going on. I think I'm going to do most of the sewing in the dinning room but leave sewing stuff upstairs. I guess I don't like being all by myself.

DH has his woodshop in our detached garage and I took over a bedroom after one of the kids moved out. Since I fall a lot and usually can't get up he sets a timer in his shop and checks on me every thirty minutes. We usually chat for 5-10 each time.

We solved that by making the sewing room (off family room) a storage for sewing supplies, and moving the actual sewing table into the family room, where his desk is. (Forces me to move around to sew, so I don't cramp from sitting sit so long.)Honestly though, his part of the room is about 30% to my 70%. :oops: (He's a keeper)

I HAVE A VERY LARGE ROOM IN THE BASEMENT AND MY HUSBAND IS UPSTAIR OVER ME I have a bathroom down here but if we go outside or in a different part of the house we tell each other we have been married 55 years and we spent the night together but during the day we do are thing I sew and he does computor or reading

I live in a Retirement Community and we have a large Arts and Cratfs room. I use it for quilting 4 hours a day and I love it. I get a change to talk to my neighbors who know I am there and want to visit for a while. some neighbors even come to my quilting class. I use a shopping cart to move my fabric back and forth. I live on the 3rd floor and the room is on the 3rd floor. I have a den in my apartment that is my sewing room but of course it needs to be organized and that is my project for 2011 to organize my sewing room. the Arts and Crafts room has 8 tables 6 small ones and 2 large ones. I usually have 2 or 3 person who quilt and it is fun to have someone to talk to and discuss your quilting projects or ideas with.

The feeling is probably partly because its a newer situation for both of you. Hopefully it will pass, or you can work out a mutual compromise

dh is in the living room or in bed(goes by 8) not me thats to early for me & I'm in the back of the house, when we need to talk to each other,we just call each other on our cell phones

We are just the opposite here. I go to bed about 10 and DH stays up until at least midnight. He worked nights for 35 yrs so he has a hard time going to bed and getting up in the morning. I am the morning person.. I always say we were married for 35 yrs before I realized he snored!!! LOL

Do What I do~take out a few minutes to go visit, then he will do the same! You will still feel connected and get things done, after all you're still under the same roof!
Enjoy your new space!

DH office is in the basement too so when we needed new phones we got ones with a intercom on them. that way i just give him a call when I want.

Hello, well my sewing room is my eldest son former bedroom and it still is a bit small but it is my sewing room. Our sons moved out when they purchased a house together and so the other bedrooms have been used for guest room and baby room. We have two daughters as well as our sons who have partners! One granddaughter who is 5yrs old and no more yet, Nicole who has our granddaughter lives on dairy farm 3hrs from where we live so we don't see her that much. My husband doesn't like it when i go to the sewing room at night and I think he thinks I live in that room (I wish!!!)
Anyway it was nice to hear what other people do and it gives ideas. Happy New Year everyone and happy sewing

We bought a small inexpensive intercom that we placed in his computer room in the loft and one in my sewing room and we can converse when we want or need to without yelling. If one answers the phone and is for the other we just push the button and talk. It works great. We always eat our meals together while we watch a little TV and then we spend time with each other. It really works for us. Just celebrated our 50th.

what a lovly lady you are

I have turned our sunroom into my sewing and computer room.Works out very well my husband has the small bonus room off the kitchen as his room where he ties flys, makes arrows and works on his guns. A very manly room. We can holler at each other if need be. Usually if he's not in his room ,he's watching his hunting and fishing,atv, monster trucks and that gross cage fighting in the great room, of which my room is off. Just as he dozes off in his recliner, i mute the tv, hee, hee.

I guess if your DH is thin and he's a good cook that means the old saying: don't trust a skinny cook doesn't apply! My hubby and I have had jobs where we worked together so much of the time that it feels good sometimes to be alone in my sewing space. I, too am extremely lucky as I have a large attic room to spread out. Now that I'm able to see my fabrics, etc. (lots of etc! ) I have too many ideas: Question, does anybody else have this problem? too many projects? Oops, maybe that's another thread altogether. I love being able to 'talk' to fellow quilters. Thanks for all you share.

My DH goes to friends down the street that are also retired. He leaves here a 10 and he comes home at noon. I told him when I retired that he had to keep going to buddies house every morning. I need my time for me too. It works great for us. If I need to go shopping I do it while he is at coffee. I laugh at him as the three of them have to go to all the new store openings just like a bunch of old gals... I will not spend 24/7 with one person. I don't care who it is!!!

My sewing room is actually the master bedroom. When we moved into this home which is about half the size of the last one, I had planned to put the longam machine in the parlor and turn that into the sewing room, but my dear husband suggested that I use the master suite, right off the front door, bay window, nice lighting, etc. He then proceeded to cut a doorway through the master bath closet into the den which we use for our bedroom. It works out beautifully. There's enough room for a king size bed and a night stand on one side, with a little path on the other side of the bed. With a door cut through from the master bath, we don't have to walk through the living room/hall/sewing room to get to the bathroom from our den/bedroom. And I have all the space I need for the longarm, with bins of quilts underneath, two sewing machines set up at all times, my cutting table, which is an old repainted army desk, a desk for the computer/printer, a shelf with slots for all my papers/quilt books, and a bookcase for all my shoebins of fabric and projects. Most everything is contained in this room except for the rolls of batting in the master tub, and several bins of yardage on shelves in the garage. If not for my husband's suggestion, I may have taken over the remainder of the house with all my sewing/quilting stuff...

LOL Featherweight: As I read your reply, I thought of how irritating it might be to spend 24 hours with myself...

Charlene, That is why we have only 2 hrs a day without each other. Just a little breathing room. LOL

get yourself a walkie talkie. My phones ring to one another too and there is a rm monitor on it-Uniden phones. I also have panasonic phones but like the Uniden much better.

I'm so glad you posted that!
We live in an older home, built 1918, and after adding on and the kids becoming adults, we turned the attached living room and dining room into my sewing room, and 'his whatever' room. It just never seemed odd to us, we still like each other, after almost 30 yrs of marriage.

Glad we're not too alone in thinking we kind of like each other bring there. Besides, I can use the tv in his side of the room which I can see perfectly from my sewing chair

RugosaB, yes we do still like each other after 35 years, guess he is a keeper!

My DH an I still like each other, and it will be 50 years in June!!

We are probably close in age. We have been married 55 years this past October. Isn't it wonderful to still love each other after all that time. Wish the whole world could be the same way. DH is also my very best friend.

I hear you... We are together almost all the time. When we were married I had just turned 17, Everyone said it would never last as we were way to young. Boy we showed them didn't we???

We sure did . I was just barely 19 when we tied the knot. My GGs and GGd's will never believe I could ever have been that young. LOL

My sewing room is upstairs, so I am up and down them a lot, or he is up and down them alot when I am in there. Most of the time he just yells up so I can come down to see what he wants. :( Not the best set up, but came with the house. If I was to move, I certainly would have my sewing room next to the tv room!
We were young when we got married and still love to spend time with each other, not every second though! I feel so lucky.

How about an intercom?

When we got our front loading washer & dryer I set up my feather weight on the dryer and my medium sized cutting board on the washer. When I need to iron I put my large June Taylor ironing pad on top of the cutting board. Yes, I sew standing up, but my back doesn't get as stiff as it does form sitting. When my oldest son moved out most of my quilting stuff went into his old room, but I still like to do most of my piecing in the laundry room.