Update on garage sewing room decision...
#11
I took a wall down between two of the kids rooms. Now when they come to visit (after a twenty hour drive), the first one in the door and up the stairs gets the one remaining spare room. The other gets a mattress on the floor.
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Talk about space challenge............I live in a 31 ft 5th wheel........ ihave made a queen quilt, double and twins plus many table runners in a vey small sewing area - approx 36 inches. I use space bags to compress my fabric,,(I do have an abundance of fabric, enuf for 4 twin quitls to be completed for xmas and 4 queens after they are finished. I do have to clean up the area when finished, so there is no mess. Where ther is a will there IS a way!!!!
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Thank you all for your input! I have decided that the cost of making a separate room in the garge (the way I want it) would be way too much. So as of now I am still sewing at the dinner table. All three bedrooms are in use by ourselves and children. We have a galley kitchen and the dinning room is where we eat. lol I think I might have hurt my 12 year olds feelings the other day talking out loud. I mentioned that when she goes to college at least I would have a sewing room. lol She looked horrified and informed me she is never moving out! lol
#15
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I gave away my bedroom set in my spare bedroom and made it my sewing room. It is plum full now. Has been for a few years. My kids have still not forgiven me. They live 8 hours away in the San Juan Island and I live in northeastern Oregon. I put them up in a nice hotel when they come to visit, but it hurts their feelings. My daughter hasn't been here in 2 years. My son was here 3 months ago. He comes once a year. They expect me to keep that room open for them for sporadic visits and to do without a sewing room just for them. I don't understand their logic. I don't work and this is my hobby. It's what I do now. They each have 10 quilts, so they know I spend a lot of time sewing, so why don't they let me be? Why try to make me feel bad that I converted the bedroom to a sewing room for myself? The other bedroom is a computer room and my husband's work room/fishing/hunting room. I don't think I would have tried to make my mom feel guilty if she would have done something like this.
#16
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Jeanne, you are so right. I don't think kids think their parents should have a life. They think your life should revolve around them. I made one bedroom into my sewing room. I put cupboards along two walls for storage and this room has 3 closets, so I have storage and room for clothes. Wonderful. I used to sew on the kitchen or dining room table for many years, and I made all my kids clothing when they were small. Of course they don't remember that. I am thankful that they live close by and can go home after a visit, I don't have to provide beds. I do have a guest room for the grands if they want to spend the night.
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#17
This just reminded me: my "bedroom" when I was a kid, had been a sewing room for the precious owner. No closet, but deep built in deep drawers in the wall (attic stairs behind the wall). Mom's machine went in there when I left!
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When we lived elsewhere I took over my son's room and then he moved back home and I had to move out. Don't remember what I did. After he moved out again I told him he could never come home to live again. I bought a sewing table and corner cabinet for the TV. He never came home to live again and he lived close enough he could come and go home.
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I spent many years with the dining room as my sewing room...so I understand your dilemma....we were rarely able to eat at the table...but folding tables work great....or we would all eat at one end of the table with my sewing stuff at the other end. When we moved, I finally got a sewing room! I was in heaven!
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