I have a very old, huge office desk that I could fit 4 machines on the top if I wanted. It sits in a corner and on the wall beside me to my right I have an old magnetic strip mounted to the wall that used to hold kitchen knives, but it now holds scissors, stitch ripper, a calculator(with a magnet on the back) pen, mechanical pencil etc...you get the idea. above that I have a corner shelf that holds a t.v and dvd. on the wall behind the desk, I have a number of shelves holding fabric, fusable webbing, a basket for scraps. another shelf holds magazines and books and patterns. mounted to the underside of the shelf I have a couple of haolgen lights, and on the wall under these shelves I have a nice big corkboard to pin the project I am working on. I always photocopy pattern instruction from magazines and books so that I can just look up and see what to do next.