how to hide elephants - er... umm... well, I mean 40 sewing machine tables...
 

Someone started a thread about how do you know when you have too many sewing machines... It isn't the machines, it's TABLES - they are everywhere I can't seem to get rid of them - maybe they breed. Sewing machines will come and go... but I have beautiful tables. Does anybody want them - NO - well YES but NOT with a sewing machine. WHY don't people want sewing machine tables??? It is likely a table will bring more money with out the machine intended to go in. Put the same machine in a case and it might leave eventually - but not in a table - oh so not in a table. What am I missing??? No I'm not soliciting for tables - NO I DON'T WANT YOUR TABLE EITHER....... you can keep it....... gggrrrrrrrrr........ we are maxed out on tables............. oops Well I did a bunch of cleaning around here... The biggest problem - tables. Oh then I have extra table legs... bonfire before they morf into more tables???

Oh my, your house sounds wonderful! Do you give tours?

I agree with Quiltingcandy......... I have notice a few extra sewing machine tables/machines hanging out in the garage... one was supposed to come in for a end table... hubby isn't able to help me get it in and I cat do it alone.. so there it sits...... another was destined for a night table in the little used guest room ( that was table free) but it turns out..... it was to large.... so it keeps the other complain in the garage..... sigh.....

Oh dear I found 2 more........... in the bed room........

Tables are an issue here too. I have the whole garage so full of tables I don't have space to work on one! I can't even SEE what they look like or need because they are piled in so tight. Hubby promised to help me rearrange them today so I can pull the ones I want to work on to the front. Yes I do have more in the house. I actually LIKE having machines in tables because they hold accessories ad the machine is more table BUT how many can you possibly have? Yes they probably DO sell better without machines because people want to chalk paint them. But once they have all been sold without machines and chalk painted, then discarded where will vintage machines go?

*I always watch for people on our local sale or trade group buying sewing machines in tables. I usually send a note letting them know if they are throwing out the machine I will come get it. :/

Perhaps 6 or 8 could be used as a platform for your bed? Treadles under the dining room table?

Monroe, I like the way you think! But we don't have a dining room - the kitchen is a postage stamp. The bed is a great idea - those tables are sturdy. Now where did I put that step ladder????????

I have 4 cabinets in my smaller bedroom where I sleep - one in front of the window...2 on the opposite wall and one by the bed as a nightstand...debating replacing the rocking chair on the other side of the bed with another and already eyeballing the master bedroom and opposite bedroom as well as the downstairs..sorta gave up on the living room/dining room as they're already pretty full but the back part of the downstairs where I'll eventually be doing my quiilting has 2 treadles and a small cabinet and larger sewing desk and about to get at least 3 more...

They are a problem. I know if I'm faced with two equal machines, one in a cabinet and one in a case, I'll take the one in the case first just because of the space issues. Donate them, Craigslist, Freecycle, anything like that. Beats burning them anyway. I don't get too concerned about the particle board ones but the earlier ones made with quality materials are worth preserving. Chalk painted end table beats ashes. I have far less machines but am already faced with the same dilemma. I've passed on several treadle machines at giveaway prices just because of the space issue.

I'm building cases for my homeless machines and Cari has given me a nice table someone else already modified. It will get a tray to hold my new case bottoms. I'll have the best of both worlds then. A table mounted machine without the storage issues plus I can rotate machines in and out of it at will.
Rodney

the ones i have no longer have a machine in there so i use them for night stands for the bedrooms with a nice doily on them...:)