nhweaver

I love my DH dearly, but we have to live together, but in a heartbeat, if I were you, I would change my master bedroom into a sewing room, if I lived by myself. I know my DH would live differently if I wasn't around, he would be putting together and fixing cars parts and guns on the kitchen table, pile his magazines and books on every available surface, and have 6 or 7 vizslas running around. You have earned the right to live the way you want to, so, you go girl, do what will make you happy.

KimS

I think I'd make the smaller rooms into larger rooms by taking down walls (if they're not support walls) before I'd destroy the bathroom. I say this because of possibly selling the home in the future.

janceejan

I did it! My youngest DD moved out o a place of her own, the small bedroom was my sewing room/guest room/sleeping room for my husband with a bad back. After she left I moved all my master bedroom out, got rid of the king size bed, bought new mattress for hubby and I. Set one of the small bedrooms up as our bedroom, with usual furniture and tv. Low and behold, DD moves back in.....give her the other small bedroom and will continue to use the master as my sewing area. Love it.....have my cutting table, my sewing table, ironing board stays up all the time. Room get east sun and is always bright, have room for my design wall. Bathroom is there, master closet for stash storage, set up the computer in there, hubby plays games on it, Pandora going and I sew.....Put a futon in there should we have company, store most of my quilts on it.....A perfect solution for us soon to be again empty nesters.....Go for it, you will be glad you did.

huntannette

I would if I had that choice...why not??

ontheriver

I had the same problem in deciding, I had a big living room never used and I was outgrowing my sewing room, so I finally swapped rooms and I love it. It's your house, do what makes you happy and works for you.

kydeb

Sounds like something I would do for sure! Do whatever is going to work for you and be happy

Roxanne

Good for you. If I were alone, I'd knock out those walls. At my age, what do I care about resale value? I plan to live in my home until I die and make decisions based on what works for me. I currently have my bedroom in a smaller jack and jill suite. The adjacent room is my sewing room. The master bedroom is an office.

roadrunr

I'd say go ahead and use your master for the sewing room. It's your ouse and you liv alone, so what does it matter?
You'll have a great sewing room and you still have a bedroom for yourself. Who needs a big bedroom when you only sleep in it anyway?

JanThompson

Several years ago, I went from a tiny sewing room/office into my living room. It was 16 x 22 and no one ever went in it. Once in a while the UPS guy would come to the door, everyone else used the back door.....I really needed the space, so I moved my sewing room and office in there, and I have never looked back. The quilters that come know they can come in that door anytime, and now even the UPS guy uses the back door, although he mostly brings fabric! This room is used every day! Oh that little tiny sewing room I had, I took out a closet and a dark ugly hallway, opened it up into my kitchen and made kinda like a den that connects to my kitchen, and that is used all the time also.....so it was win, win....I say do what makes you happy! Life is too short to not have things the way you want them. Jan

kacklebird

I say go for it and enjoy that big sewing room