Oh Miss April, I would love the opportunity to have 2 rooms at my disposal. As it is, I've taken over the family room off our kitchen. The living room and den are too close to the front door and traipsing thru to the bathroom problems. Besides, I can close the gate to keep the "fur babies" out if I want to. I would love to have the basement area of our home, but that isn't possible unless we move our bedroom to the 2nd story. I'm not that hip on climbing stairs that much. As far as lighting is concerned, They make lots of different styles of lighting so I wouldn't have a problem with that. In my "family room/sew cave, I have 2 sets of windows so I currently have lots of natural lighting, but would willingly give it up for more space any day. As far as water goes, we've had water in our basement at least 5 times since we moved here. I've learned that anything you want to keep put in waterproof containers. JMHO, and hope that this helps. Hugs g/f ;)

I like the idea of 2 rooms. I would keep the upstairs for the main sewing . I am not a basement person and I like to be close to the kitchen - I can sneak in a little sewing while dinner is boiling or microwaving. The basement for storing with plastic containers and hopefully a longarm.

I can't cook and sew. Whatever I'm cooking gets burnt, bc I forget about it. Lately I've been setting a timer in the SS to help me remember about the food.

Gosh - I am so envious of y'all that actually have a room for sewing! When I bought my house ~16 years ago I bought one with one more bedroom than I really needed just for that purpose but God blessed me with the raising of my grandson so there went "my" space! I've tried arranging a sewing space throughout my fairly small house and am currently sharing my bedroom with my sewing/crafts with my stash housed in the backyard shed in plastic boxes. I'm single so that helps, dunno if a dh would care too much for the clutter which is about to drive me nuts.

I'm with the others here...use both! I sure would! You (and dh) can make some cute wood frame or pvc pipe/fabric room dividers to make your "hall". I Googled some instructions for my son one time and there were a lot of designs that popped up.

Go, go, go.........to the wide open basement.

There is always high shelving for all that fabric.......explore and enjoy

MaryJane

Before we retired my sewing room was a corner of our bedroom. After we retired I got one whole bedroom to myself (the small one). When we built my sewing room moved to the bonus room above the garage and I loved it. It felt so big. Then I lost my DH and moved closer to family. Now I have the whole basement to sew in and I love it. My DH would be down there watching TV and making jokes while I sewed if he was still here. I keep one of his pictures down there with me to remind me to smile and not take life too serious.

That's a sweet story, to be able to remember that your DH loved your quilt making, to be able to think of him always with you.

I'm with QBeth - I have my sewing room in upstairs bedroom, after much much "debating" with the "man"! Love the sunlight, coziness of being "my" room and "escape" into my quilting! but near everything. Less storage for material means using "old" and buying new!!!! Basement has grandboys' beds, TV etc, for the seldom visits they make from out of state. Works great for me!

Carol/CT

I agree wiht SewJoyce....go to the basement and invest in the plastic bins to store your fabric.

Although I have a dry basement, it does get "humid" down there when it rains. So, we have a good humidifier to deal with any dampness. To avoid emptying the bucket all the time, we mounted the humidifier on a platform about eye-high so we could run a plastic tube from the humidifier over to the set-tub we have in the laundry area. Works great!