Do what works for you. I think the master bedroom change would probably be easier and less invasive to the rest of the house. Good luck!

I totally get it, you feel weird using a room that is a bedroom for something other than a bedroom. I've often thought if the option were available to me, that room in my house would also be the best place for my sewing room because it really is a big room. If you are comfortable sleeping in another room in the house, I doze off regularly in the family room myself, then move your stuff into the master bedroom. Once you do it, you'll probably wonder why you waited so long to do it.

It makes perfect sense to me.

It makes sense to me. It is a better option than making the living room a sewing room even if you didn't have a cat. Your sewing room in the master bedroom keeps the projects and activity private and out of the way of guests.

i say go for it!!! especially if you aren't using it much anyways. i am totally planning on making mine into a sewing room as soon as my boys are big enough to move downstairs!

All you are doing in the bedroom is sleep. You don't need a big space for that. I say go for it!

That's where my long-arm is!! My regular sewing stuff is scattered in two other bedrooms. I really want one BIG room for all of it, but will probably never get it. Some would say that I have way too much sewing stuff....nah!

I think it's a great idea! You'll be able to move around the LA with more ease! If it's more comfortable than do it!!

my master bedroom faces a lovely round valley (charmingly called Round Valley) overlooking the old John Wayne Ranch in Arizona... it is 20 x 30, has a walk in closet and its own bathroom. I have dozens of trees and a creek that serves as the boundary for my property that i can see from the huge picture window. There is a door that leads out to my deck in the back yard and a roof over most of the deck with comfy furniture about 10 steps from my sewing machine table.... it took me a couple of days as I was moving in to realize that this room is PRIME real estate and I was not about to waste it as a space in which I slept. I moved into the smallest bedroom which I thought would be temporary while i thought I would re-do the medium sized bedroom before I moved into that one. The Master Sewing Room has worked so well that I am now contemplating bringing the longarm upstairs (from my barn) into the medium bedroom. I sooooo wish I had 2 more bedrooms, like you do....!!!!!!!!! (PS...sometimes this works backwards.... I have friends that moved their bedroom furniture into the formal living room as they decided that they realllllly wanted a fireplace in their bedroom.... family room serves as their living room.... different strokes...)

I would do it in a heartbeat ~

Hey, Pam -- that's one of the perks about being single --- you can do WHATEVER you want!!! Quite frankly, I considered it here but DH put a stop to it ----- party poop!!!

I say go for it. Usually the onlly differences in bedrooms is one is larger and may have a bathroom. Use your rooms so that they work best for you. You will be spending alot more time in there as a sewing room than you do for sleeping. Have fun.

Do it!!

We converted out front room into an office. We both need an office, and we were using the other spare bedroom (10 x 10), but we outgrew it. Hubby suggested using the front room (it was empty! We use the family room for TV and visitors), and well ... why not?

Sure it's a little strange for visitors to walk into the house and the first room they see is the office ... but it's our house and it's the way things "fit".

It's your house, your room. Do what you want and feel would work best for you. I think it's a fine idea.

We just moved into a new home (new to us anyways). It has 4 (1 master, 3 smaller) bedrooms, family room, eat in kitchen, and 'formal' living room with 2 baths, 2 car garage and laundry room. Guess where my sewing room is? Yep, you've got it, in the master! Everything fits in there.... and I mean everything, fabric, machines (including a 10 foot mid arm quilter), TV and my storage drawers. I have 3 different design walls, one goes from floor to ceiling behind my midarm with one over my embroidery machine table and one behind the ironing board.... I need to get some pictures up so I can post them. DH picked out 'our' bedroom, another is a his weight room and then we have 1 left over for guests if we ever can find a queen sized bed to put in there. We doubled our space from the last house we were in so it is great for us! We were looking for either a large enough master bedroom or a family room I could take over and this was the answer... Good luck on your decision and happy exploring your stash while re-arranging.

Where do you spend most of your time? In the bedroom or in the sewing room? I think if it were me, I'd put it in the room that is the biggest!

My DH and I have 3 bedrooms. One is his computer/hunting/fishing/going to work (railroader with overnight grip and lots of boots) room. The other one is my sewing room. It's way too small now that I've collected so much fabric. I have fabric stacked on rubbermaid tubs and under my two long tables that I use as a cutting board and put my gadgets and everything else on them. My masterbedroom has a huge bathroom. My husband works on call and sleeps all different hours so I sleep on the couch quite a bit so not to wake him. I wish I could talk him into moving into my sewing room and letting me having the master bedroom. It has two closets and is huge. I have been thinking about this for a long time. We don't have guests come over...it's just us. When the kids come home, we put them up in a nice hotel. I don't know how to approach him with the idea of swapping rooms. He only sleeps and dresses in there. He could have the main bathroom (that's mine now). I think he will think I am out of my mind. He thinks I'm obsessed with quilting as it is, but to ask him to move out of the big bedroom might make him make me go to a psychiatrist. I know I'm not nuts because you all think it's a good idea, but how do I broach the subject? I can't move all the furniture myself. If I could, I'd do it while he was away for 2 days at work. How do I make him realize that it's a good idea (for him too)?

Sounds like a great idea to me. Hope to see some pictures of your new sewing room when you get it change over.

Heck yeah, go for it! Im going to knock a wall down in between 2 bedrooms in order to fit a longarm. Its just Hubby and I. We dont really have guests stay overnight, but we will be able to fit a bed in there as well. The only thing that concerned me for a very short period of time, was "what will it do to the value of our house" going from 3 bdrm to a 2. But I got over that pretty quick, when I realize we plan on staying in this house forever (whatever that is). if ever we wanted needed to sell, could always just put the wall back up. Im keeping both closets. Have fun, keep us posted.

I have done it and loved it. I moved my 'studio' back into the other bedroom when I had my LA table lengthened as that is the only room other than the garage that would actually work.

Down here the garage would be too hot in summer and dusty all year round, so that option wouldn't work for me. I prefer having my car in my garage.

Combining two room into one would also work well.

For me, I want to be able to see/listen to TV/movies when I sew. so having my sewing cabinet facing my living room is a must. Also, I don't sew well when I face a wall or window.

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I would do what makes you feel comfortable and happy. It's your house and since you have all the rooms to do what you what to do with them work where it makes you the happiest. When you try it if you don't like it you can always move it back you won't have knocked down any walls and can keep the house the way it is for resale someday. Enjoy your home as you like. Sue

You have a good idea, and thanks for this post, because I think it helped us all to see that our home is our home, and to be used as it needs to be to be our relaxing home.

It's yours do what you want to, that's one of the best things about having one! If I wanted to I would. We have everything strung between 2 rooms, would be nice to have it all together. Have fun and enjoy what YOU want to do!...

Go for it!

use the rooms how you want.If you sew a lot make that a priority in picking the use for your rooms.you are the queen in your castle-do want you want.

DH and I have a house rule: If we don't use something in a 12 month period, then it's gone and not worth keeping. While Spring Cleaning this past Spring, we were going through everything in the dining room when it occurred to us both that we only ever use the dining room when I need to pin a quilt since we bought our kitchen table. My sewing room was too small for me to do any pinning in there or even quilting for that matter. Soooo, that led to us nixing the dining room and turning it into a sewing room. At the time that we made that decision, our oldest DD came to us and asked if she could have her own room so it all worked out in the end. She's happily settled in the old sewing room and I'm happy with more elbow room...which I definitely do need since both of my DD's sew alongside of me with their own machines.

two things... buy that nice heavyweight shelving (for garages) that just has uprights that get screwed onto the wall...then the shelves are adjustable with really heavy brackets... it will not only hold all the weight you need to store things on... but if you had to revert to a master bedroom, it would not be more than a few minutes to do... secondly, you mentioned a larger pressing surface... i saw this online recently and thought it was such a good idea that i made one the next day... the large board (like the ones that fit on your ironing board).... was just put on top of a small 3 drawer dresser (I had a 2 door cabinet) and then there is plenty of support under the pressing area and storage instead of legs under it. my ironing board is folded up into my closet, just in case i need it, but so far, have not. just wanted you to share what i considered to be a better pressing area than the 'board on ironing board' choice.

I think that is a great idea. Do it and enjoy your space. You can always change it back if you don't like it.

Sounds perfect to me. Go for it.

I vote yes...

You go for it girlfriend. Am betting you will be glad you did. if its the master...you probably wont have to go far to the bathroom, add a phone, a microwave and small frig....you'll never leave it. LOL.
I have often thought about sleeping in my LR and making my only BR into sewing area.

GO For IT!! ITS your House
 

Are you Crazy!! Do it If it was me I would have the walls down yesterday, it would be so lovely to have that space! You only live once so go for IT!! lol :)

Whatever floats your boat

Its your home, do what is convenient for you. You will be much happier!!!!

I say go for it. After all you are the one living there and you should be able to do what ever you want with the space you have.

I don't have a longarm but I have never used my master bedroom as a bedroom. I've never seen any point in using the largest bedroom for sleeping (I sleep in the smallest of three). Before I took up quilting, my master was a darkroom. Now it is a sewing room.

Go for it!

I also live alone and I took my family room and converted it into a sewing room.. It's big and roomy and holds about all of my sewing stuff which includes 3 machines and cutting tables and numerous sewing supplies, plus a tv. I still have a living room for watching tv and relaxing. My family room is in the back of my house so it isn't seen from the living room. I'm loving having it like this.

It's your house. If you want to turn the master bedroom into your sewing room, go for it. It's not going to
change anything about the size of the house. You will not be doing any construction. As a suggestion, use the
guest room as your bedroom. Move some of your dressers in there and let that become your bedroom.
You'll have more fun with the master bedroom as a sewing room than a bedroom that you never use.
Go for it.