I think you should do it too! I use our master bedroom and I have a great setup, but in 5 years when my last one finishes college I'll be moving to the front of the house where I can look out the front window...it will make me happy too!!!

Excellent idea! I have done this in our living room. I hold meetings, quilt class, etc....in our living room. We don't get very many visitors, so this works out wonderfully for me. Lot's of table room, space to have lot's of folks over for quilting!

Dar

Actually my step-sister lived in an older two-story farmhouse (beautiful) and she converted their formal dining room into a combination fabric / pattern / notions and sewing lesson studio, and being the super small farming town they lived in (upstate New York), she coordinated with the home-economics teacher at the local school to provide sewing lessons to the kids which were sometimes held at her house.

I have about half of the living room with my sewing table right under the picture window, it's awesome although I do catch myself just daydreaming staring out the window! LOL
David

Agreed - I don't mind the painting. What I hate is the prep! and these walls need prep. The skim coat of plaster was gouged by the previous owner taking down wallpaper. They put up a vinyl paper that - when it came down - took lots of the paint off the plaster. It was so bad that I had to use paint remover to get it to the bare plaster. For the last year, I've been repairing the gouges (on and off - more off than on). It's just a job that goes on and on...

Our house was built in 1918, and has a combined living room/dinig room popular of that time. We bought it 30 years ago, added on a large family room/kitchen/eat area. So we turned the dining room into my sewing room, and we jokingly cal the still attached living room 'his man cave.'
It's nice, I can leave my sewing stuff out, without worrying about moving it out of the way, and there is a swing door to slose if it's not the best condition to look at

Good for you, you will have a blast, just don't overstuff it like most of us quilters do with our stashes.

GREAT idea!!!

Funny you should mention that, as I've been seriously considering doing just that. I have a huge open den area I seldom go into that is just asking for a quilting frame. And then I can see other things following it... like my sewing machines. My diningroom table is already my cutting table. <G> Good thing there's nobody else here.

Do it!
Why wast a good room, enjoy it.