aussie bella

Hello, well my sewing room is my eldest son former bedroom and it still is a bit small but it is my sewing room. Our sons moved out when they purchased a house together and so the other bedrooms have been used for guest room and baby room. We have two daughters as well as our sons who have partners! One granddaughter who is 5yrs old and no more yet, Nicole who has our granddaughter lives on dairy farm 3hrs from where we live so we don't see her that much. My husband doesn't like it when i go to the sewing room at night and I think he thinks I live in that room (I wish!!!)
Anyway it was nice to hear what other people do and it gives ideas. Happy New Year everyone and happy sewing

LogCabinLady

We bought a small inexpensive intercom that we placed in his computer room in the loft and one in my sewing room and we can converse when we want or need to without yelling. If one answers the phone and is for the other we just push the button and talk. It works great. We always eat our meals together while we watch a little TV and then we spend time with each other. It really works for us. Just celebrated our 50th.

rona thickpenny

what a lovly lady you are

JACRN

I have turned our sunroom into my sewing and computer room.Works out very well my husband has the small bonus room off the kitchen as his room where he ties flys, makes arrows and works on his guns. A very manly room. We can holler at each other if need be. Usually if he's not in his room ,he's watching his hunting and fishing,atv, monster trucks and that gross cage fighting in the great room, of which my room is off. Just as he dozes off in his recliner, i mute the tv, hee, hee.

Charleen DiSante

I guess if your DH is thin and he's a good cook that means the old saying: don't trust a skinny cook doesn't apply! My hubby and I have had jobs where we worked together so much of the time that it feels good sometimes to be alone in my sewing space. I, too am extremely lucky as I have a large attic room to spread out. Now that I'm able to see my fabrics, etc. (lots of etc! ) I have too many ideas: Question, does anybody else have this problem? too many projects? Oops, maybe that's another thread altogether. I love being able to 'talk' to fellow quilters. Thanks for all you share.

featherweight

My DH goes to friends down the street that are also retired. He leaves here a 10 and he comes home at noon. I told him when I retired that he had to keep going to buddies house every morning. I need my time for me too. It works great for us. If I need to go shopping I do it while he is at coffee. I laugh at him as the three of them have to go to all the new store openings just like a bunch of old gals... I will not spend 24/7 with one person. I don't care who it is!!!

doowopddbop

My sewing room is actually the master bedroom. When we moved into this home which is about half the size of the last one, I had planned to put the longam machine in the parlor and turn that into the sewing room, but my dear husband suggested that I use the master suite, right off the front door, bay window, nice lighting, etc. He then proceeded to cut a doorway through the master bath closet into the den which we use for our bedroom. It works out beautifully. There's enough room for a king size bed and a night stand on one side, with a little path on the other side of the bed. With a door cut through from the master bath, we don't have to walk through the living room/hall/sewing room to get to the bathroom from our den/bedroom. And I have all the space I need for the longarm, with bins of quilts underneath, two sewing machines set up at all times, my cutting table, which is an old repainted army desk, a desk for the computer/printer, a shelf with slots for all my papers/quilt books, and a bookcase for all my shoebins of fabric and projects. Most everything is contained in this room except for the rolls of batting in the master tub, and several bins of yardage on shelves in the garage. If not for my husband's suggestion, I may have taken over the remainder of the house with all my sewing/quilting stuff...

Charleen DiSante

LOL Featherweight: As I read your reply, I thought of how irritating it might be to spend 24 hours with myself...

featherweight

Charlene, That is why we have only 2 hrs a day without each other. Just a little breathing room. LOL

marla

get yourself a walkie talkie. My phones ring to one another too and there is a rm monitor on it-Uniden phones. I also have panasonic phones but like the Uniden much better.