Is that a Murphy Bed Felicia? I have been campaigning for one of those for years! Someday................

My sewing room is my kitchen table too. And a bench seat serves for my currently in use stash. Of course my extra bedroom is quickly filling up with stash for the future. My grand daughters have claimed it for the huge amount of toy stash they have!
And lucky for me, my sister finaly picked up the step-cat. Just in time too because she had 4 kittens when she got home!

I used to have a sewing room. Well, sewing room / guest room.

At our house here in South Korea, though, I've lost that room

The movers destroyed our dining room table, which was brand new and I had ordered it specifically because it was counter-height. With arthritis in my spine, normal height cutting services are annoying!! It takes me a while to straighten up after I've bent over one.

So no table good for cutting for me; I have a big board on top of my dachshund's crate and my big cutting mat on top of that.

With only three bedrooms, one is designated as the "home theater", one is our bedroom, and the third has been filled with my husband's computers. There's a futon somewhere in the computer room, I know there is . . . I saw the movers put it in there! LOL!!

My sewing machine table is a put it together yourself desk from Target but it works great. That is on the edge of the kitchen now.

And for fabric storage, my wonderful husband bought me a new cabinet downtown with glass doors.

I'll get some pics soon.

Oh and the home theater room was necessary since our living room has a "stripper" pole in the middle!! LOL! Not a real stripper pole, it's a support pole. But the layout just doesn't work for television placement.

Oh geeze, I didn't mean to go on and on whining!! Sorry!

interesting sewing room stories..I posted a pic of my sewing disaster on my blog... just lucky we have a basement that is all I need to say..LOL

OMGOSH.. MY APOLOGIES!!!
I never came back to this thread!. I must appear like such a loony-tune( or a snob) at times...lol Honest.. .I’m just a ditz after work and once a thread is no longer on the main lists when I log back in I many never find it again..lol I have even less sense of direction in my real life...lol

Jenell..
NOOOOO......we invented the poor man’s Murphy bed! There is no way I was going to pay $2,000- $3,000 for a Murphy bed (or wall bed)!!! We created our own...lol Sorta...Kinda. I thought I had posted photos in here somewhere way back, but maybe I did that in Dave’s Garden...lol We were so proud of what we accomplished! Lemme see if I can find some pictures. I’m just sorry I didn’t think to take BEFORE photos! It was just a crammed tight dark little store room with a double bed stuffed in the middle of it.


The Helm...lol


Now bolted to the wall behind the mattress (flannel wall)


Behind this flannel wall is the box spring and mattress. If someone comes over it takes about 20 min to remove the flannel table cloths...fold it all up...drop the mattresses and set up a nice guest bed. Everything in the room folds up and it really looks acceptable for company.


I sewed a wide sash to tie the box springs to the wall (so it wouldn't fall down).


Cutting area. It's just a table from JoAnn's Fabrics but it folds up great for small storage.

Somewhere I have a photo of the storage we created above the cabinets which I LOVE! We found just the right sized plastic tubs to slide into the wire cubes. Hmmmmm......I'll keep looking.

Betweens!
Veryyyyyyy nice work! I peeked at your blog! Also enjoyed the music playing!

I gave up and just went and took another one..lol



It has always been my goal of "A place for everything and everything in it's place". This room is tiny, but we didn't waste an inch of space. It may not be huge, but I would NEVER be getting the sewing done I do now if I was still out on the kitchen table.

Felicia, I have that EXACT same table! It's very handy for small spaces. Wish I had room for two! Keepsake Quilting sells an ironing cover for it that I've been coveting for a while now. Oh well. I'm pretty well set up for the room I've got. I'm just worried about the holidays coming. My sewing "room" is right where we usually put the Christmas tree!

LOL @ Christmas tree dilemma! MOVE THAT TREE..lol

Nice tip on the ironing cover for the table! thanks...

The only complaint I had about that cutting table is that if you moved it the legs tend to swing back under the top (making it want to fold up). My honey heard me in the sewing room grumbling about it one day and solved the problem. He popped back in about 5 min later with two cute little clamps (small, but heavy duty) that clamp the legs into their slots nice and tight. PROBLEM SOLVED and now...I also love the table!