barbb baumgardner

This, too, shall pass! We began our renovation and my new sewing retreat in 2008. Seems like we were in a mess for a very long time. It was finally finished in July of last year! Yeah!
My sewing room is 20X36 (720 sq) and I love it. Well worth the extra time to complete. I am so thrilled with all the work that we did. You will find it worth the wait....no, I didn't sew the whole time either and it is so delightful to be able to do it now.
Chin up, keep in touch on the board and the time will pass quickly enough.

Lucy90

I'm not remodeling but I am going to redo a extra bedroom for my quilting stuff. I have to refinish a bedroom set for another bedroom and get that organized and the closet organized for my clothes/stuff. I also want to put the laminate flooring in these two rooms so I am now sitting in one room and saying OMG!! It will get done!! I am sewing in my dining room now and maybe getting to comfortable doing this but one day in the near future I should be able to send a few pictures of my new room!! Also bought a Singer treadle machine a few months ago and trying to get that working.

Dee

Been there. Just hang in there.

katiebear1

I feel your pain!

TexasGurl

Hang in there, it WILL all be worth it !!
In the meantime, take a break whenever you can and do some hand piecing, applique, punchneedle etc ... just to keep your Sewing Soul happy !! Or go to a friend's house and sew -
We are "still" remodeling our home - no addition, just updates - but it's ALL stressful and tiring. My sewing time has really suffered lately - but I've done some wool applique and punchneedle to help keep my sanity !! :)

Rymer

bah ha ha ha ha..this one made me laugh......oh how I wish, but it's my father in law!! (and my husband, who's cute...) but anyway I'm laughing. no hot contractors working w/ no shirts here....bummer!!!

Rymer

thanks to everyone who gave advice, words of encouragement and ideas of what to do to keep me busy in the meantime!! I will try to take some of them into consideration and maybe find some time to work. the addition is a brand new kitchen, master bedroom and master bath. we currently have a 1000 sq foot home w/ 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. and we have 2 kids. so this was sorely needed. I have a sewing/office room finished in the basement, that room isn't going to get any bigger and I still have to share it but like I said it's full of stuff that needs to be out of the way for the addition. we are making great headway on the addition though, they are taping the walls this week and then hopefully we can paint and put flooring down in the upcoming weeks!!! it's going to be so nice to have so much more room and even nicer to be able to use my sewing room again. sigh........

Rymer

thank you...I didn't even think of that. my machine is downstairs and totally out of the way of the dust but I will cover it just in case!!

Rymer

OMG your bathroom is AMAZING! our vanity looks SO similar to yours, same color granite top. ours is not nearly as big, but I will have an air tub (that also will have a shower, it's not a garden style like yours) but I'm so looking forward to that first bath in the air jetted tub! :) we are living in the house while the remodel is going on. we haven't had to loose power for more than a day or so here and there and we even added a new sub box for power. my FIL is a contractor and is doing all of this. it's messy but we couldn't afford to live elsewhere while it's going on. we are doing OK so far.....LOL

QuilterInVA

That's why I also have hand applique and quilting going at the same time I'm doing machine work. No down times for me!