Where do you park your Long-arm machine?
 

The time has finally come to get one of these lovelies. However, I'm wondering where its going to live. I know room is required. That being said where is your long arm machine. Just curious. :)

Mine is in the finished basement.

I have a family room and a living room. Mine lives in my living room.

When considering where to put your longarm, get actual measurements of the space you will be needing (not just the frame) from your dealer and/or friends who have the same machine, and make a masking tape outline with those measurements in your space. This will help you visualize it.

I have a family room in my basement that is my sewing room, and off that room was a workshop that I gutted so my long arm is in there with the perfect amount of room. I would not have bought my home if it didn’t have room for my baby. I have a HQ Fusion on a 12ft Gallery frame.

Mine is in the basement. The only other place it could fit would have been the living room. Hubby refused to sacrifice the living room. Also, before you buy, take measurements on any parts that can't be broken down into smaller parts, like the table across the back. Make a cardboard mock up of it and see if you can get it into the space you want it without bending the cardboard. Those tables and rods don't bend around corners. And your ceiling height may not be enough to stand them on end to get them around a corner. Even though I did all that, the seller forgot to tell me there were welded metal table bracket supports underneath the table, making the table a certain thickness. Because I didn't take the thickness into account, the real thing couldn't get into the basement the way the cardboard mock up did, and it laid out in the back yard overnight :shock: while we figured out a new way to get it inside (we had to remove a window in the basement)!

I have a small bedroom upstairs that I sacrificed for my LA, unfortunately the largest size table I could fit in the room is a 10ft. We had to bring the rollers in through the window. The LA pretty much takes up the entire room so I use my guest bedroom as my sewing room for my cutting table, domestic machine in it's own table and my ironing board.
The domestic gets recessed down into its table when I have guests.

Mine is too.

When I first bought it, I had a living room and family room downstairs and a huge loft upstairs. The loft would have been the perfect place for the longarm, but that is where DH and I spent our evenings watching TV, so the longarm went into the downstairs family room instead. The rest of my quilting was in a huge upstairs bedroom. When I moved to this house, I put the longarm and most of the rest of the quilting in a bonus room that sits above the garage. It's more convenient having everything in one place. Well almost everything - I have machines scattered all around the house and sometimes do some sewing downstairs.

Mine is in the living room, which was sitting empty in this house. We never used it and as I was vacuuming the room one day it occurred to me I could use it for my sewing space instead of always putting things away.... that was about 12 years ago, and now the room is filled with sewing stuff including my longarm...

Mine took over the dining room.