Rhonda K

It sounds like you will have your sewing space eventually. It's hard to be patient with these plans sometimes.

Start now letting others know their belongings are available. Give them a date deadline for their decision and a date to pick up by if wanted. Others will prolong your time frame and goals if you let them.

Start now. They may not want the items and you can clear out the space now. Good luck & best wishes for your sewing space!

bearisgray

When people store/dump their belongings in your space, they tend to "forget" about them and leave them - indefinitely -

Sometimes it takes a lot of prodding/encouraging/suggesting to them to get their stuff elsewhere.

And then there is the stuff we inherited from our near and dear ones - - - - don't use it, but hard to get rid of.

QuiltnLady1

I just spent the summer organizing the fabric stored in the garage and my sewing room (8.5' by 11.5'). I made a drawing of the room on graph paper, added all the immovable shelves and then made cutouts of the furniture to scale, glued the sticky part of sticky notes on the back and played around with everything. I got a bunch of carts with rollers so I could block shelves so I had floor space but could move them to get to the stuff in the shelves. I have pegboard on the end of a shelf unit and in a number of other small wall spaces (my son-in-law made the things for me).

Onebyone

It hit me a few days ago that the foyer in my house now is bigger then my first dedicated sewing room. I did a lot of sewing and quilting in that small room.

quiltingcandy

You were looking for a table for your sewing machine and I would recommend the Sew EZ table. It is very sturdy - I have one for my Viking Designer Topaz and I bought the piece to make it a solid top when I want to use the machine with the embroidery unit. It has wheels on the end of it so you can take it to a retreat if you are so inclined. Also, I have the Ikea cabinet "Alex" for my embroidery items - embroidery thread just keeps multiplying in the dark. :-) And if you get the wider drawer set you can put the wheels on it so it's easier to move. I have a plastic set of drawers from Target that also fits under my Janome table. (My Janome MC6600 came with its own table.)
I took over my daughter's room when she moved out and I keep moving things around constantly. We put in a Murphy bed and I do have plenty of storage in the closet but there is never enough. You know how most fish grow to the level of the space - quilters expand to their space.

origamigoldfish

I am on vacation and going to start cleaning the room out tomorrow...hoping to have it finished by next sunday!

Darcyshannon

I have been motivated to sort and organize the last ten days because someone is coming over next week that will see my space. It has been nice for me too. I sort fabric late at night while watching shows. I also am finishing some small projects and finishing even on small projects is very movitvated. You can say done!

origamigoldfish

Update: After a few days of cleaning, sorting, and calling people about stuff, two trips to goodwill, and more trash bags than I care to think about, I finally have a sewing space! There are a couple of things I can do to make it prettier, because it still feels like a storage room and trying to be creative in that much clutter will be hard.

The space is approximately 8 feet by 12 feet, with the window and door at opposite ends of the long side. I have unlimited access to one plug, and I can get access to another one with a short extension cord. As expected, I don't have any vertical storage space, unless I can rig something up by zip tying pegboard to the front of one of the shelves. I did clear out enough to have two shelves on wire racks for storage, a skinny but tall bookcase, and a couple of plastic drawers with shelves. I have a light and my sewing machine for furniture...my next step is a table and an adjustable desk chair!

bearisgray

You are making progress!

Kind of amazing how much "useless to us" stuff we seem to accumulate.

AprilM

So happy for you origamigoldfish! Really sounds like things are coming together you!

Dont worry about the decorating part cuz all of a sudden that will come together too 😊 get everything situated the way you like it and how it works best for you first. If you’re at all like me, i moved stuff around all over the place till it finally felt right. My husband was like - are you moving stuff again???

Once i finally got things how i wanted them i was so excited! Every morning before i went to work i would turn on the light and just go in and sit for a few minutes - i know, but it was kind of a “this is what you’re working for moment”! That continued for a few weeks until i started wondering what those white walls might really look like in lavender - took awhile to get DH’s head around that one (Mr Camouflage guy) but finally he decided it might not be so bad and he really did want me to have the room how i wanted it 😍 since the idea was years in the making.

You’re gettin’ there girl!