Actually a quilt apartment... Except for the bathroom, that only has occasional visitations of threads and thimbles and things when pockets are emptied before clothes go into laundry basket.

Sounds like a quilt house not a quilt room Lotti

Hi Lotti,
I'm sure you know just where everything is.
Anne

sounds very familiar except that I have plenty of room to keep all my mess

i live alone - turned my spare bedroom into a sewing room early this year - and guess where bernie - and my ironing board (which makes a fantastic large extra coffeetable/diningtable), a large part of my stash, my thread cabinet and me spend most of our time? right smack in the middle of the living/dining room!
my sewing room gets the morning light and has my laptop with a large monitor - but in my living room i have the light in the afternoon - the door to the balcony (on nice summer days i actually move the sewing room outside - on nice not so warm days the door is wide open and i pretend i got some fresh air!!!
luckily i have the ironing board which is moveable for easy access to it / the closet behind it. i can stand my laptop on it and an extra monitor when i do work there / i can use it to iron fabrics while watching tv (3 bing crosby movies and a whole load of fabrics were got through on sunday afternoon) / i throw a quilt over it and serve cookies and coffee to drop in visitors / i put a large plywood shelf on it with my cutting mat when i need to cut fabrics ... and if it needs to go it can be folded up and hidden behind the door in my bedroom - what a great invention....
my dining table has bernie on it - a multitude of fabrics, batting pieces and sewing notions - because - well - the sewing table is in the sewing room with my old artista - and the fabrics that are between the stash and the dining room (in whichever direction). am hoping the new year will bring a little order into the confusion - but...

Good plan Rita. That's where I would rather be. Closer to the kitchen and everything. I brought my old machine up to the living room last week so I would get more done at night while sitting around with my husband watching EVERY channel on the tv.

kfstitcher wrote:
The 'real' plan is to make the basement into a den for the teenage kids so that we can get all their stuff out of the sitting room - you know, xBox, Wii, Playstation etc.. At the moment my sewing room has to double up as a guest bedroom occasionally. The sofa-bed will go down to the basement for the kids and the occasional guest - usually one of their friends anyway. That way I can take over my sewing room completely. I am very happy where it is because it is very near the kitchen and sitting room so that I can stay in touch. If it was in the basement the rest of the family would never see me.

My "studio" is in the basement, and because the ceiling is not finished, I can hang a shop light anywhere I need one! Just drive some nails in the ceiling joists and hang the fixture from chains exactly where I need it! And the older I get, the more lights I need to add!

That's one drawback of the basement - they usually don't have great lighting. An upstairs room is better for that aspect, so I can see the struggle between having more space or having more light. We have an extension 'sunroom' that I have my eye on for sewing, but so far, just do my hand sewing in there. I think it's unrealistic to think I can move everything upstairs

I'm really torn about this one, Rita. I gave up the basement to DH and his wood shop along with the adjacent family room (and full bath) and kept the tiny 8x11' room with the huge window upstairs for my quilting. I have peace and quiet, the space is mine and no one else's, and if I ever want to, I can sneak down to the basement with my smaller sewing machine and invade his space anytime I want to (I think it's called keeping him company rather than having my sewing room in the basement and getting overtaken by his encroaching projects...

What!? Get on down there and stake a claim for yourself Rita. It sounds like a sewing room to me!

- We have already been through the ping-pong table phase Terrie. I have a funny feeling that this is all being done so that he can set up his train set! Oh well, so long as the sofa bed gets moved from my sewing room to the basement so that I can get a proper cutting table into my sewing room I don't mind.

Hope you get what you want, Rita.

Or...maybe it's going to be a ping-pong table?

Santa, I want what Wendy is having, please.

You may recall me mentioning how a couple of years ago DH asked me what I would like for Christmas? To which I responded that I would love it if he would clear out the basement so that we could make it into the kids den. (All his stuff from his mother's house and his uncles house.) I got a MacBook instead! Lovely present and all but not what I had asked for. This week, DH has been frantically clearing out the basement - he even did some painting and carpentry today!!! Now I am wondering what I will get for Christmas this year?