lildinks2013

I lived in a cape cod type home with 2 bedrooms upstairs with pitched ceilings. Yes i had the dresser in the knee walls but i had a problem with frost. Cloths inside the drawers would get damp due to the change of tempature. I had to get inside the crawl space to add more insulation to prevent this. One of the bedrroms i turned into my sewing loft at that time and spent many hours there. It was a very narrow room. I didnt have any shelving space as it only had 3 walls. The 4th wall we knocked out and put in a railing to make it look like a loft. We took pine boards and nailed them up on the walls to make it look rustic. I used leftover pine boards and bricks and set it up as a shelving unit type wall like a partition in the room. l-l Half of the room was for sewing and cutting table. the other half was for storing larger items such as totes bolts of fabrics etc. on teh shelves, i stored my fabrics, patterns, batting, magazines, sewing notions etc.. At that time i worked for a woman who had a small cottage industry and so i need a place for this. It worked for a long time and it was cozy. I even had a rocker, small stereo system and end table to relax when i needed too. I love the big designer sewing rooms but for me its not practical. Keep it simple, recycle, reuse is my motto. Only expense i had then was for the pine boards. If u dont have wall space, then make wall using shelves to store ur items. Use bins from wally to store fabrics inside. Hope this helps.

cherylmae

Will try to send u picts. of mine. It is above my garage, with hubby next door with his office, so is a small area. try to keep it organized as I can, but gets mussy fast

QandE2010

Go to

http://www.houzz.com/sloped-attic-ce...shelving-ideas

They have many creative ideas.

fred singer

same problem

carrieg

I have the same sloped ceiling, and it slopes all the way to the floor. I am fortunate that there is 1 straight wall. It used to be our master bedroom but we just moved downstairs. So this will soon be my space! I find I have to use short base cabinets so the space waste is less. If the room is large enough, put a storage cabinet in the middle, creating a wall, or even 2 back to back. I know your pain!

Even a kitchen island would work as a cutting table with storage underneath. Depends on the size of your room.

carrieg

Thought I'd share a pic of my in-progress sewing room. The credenza is up against the slanted ceiling. As long as you keep it low, you don't waste too much floor space.

bobbiesboutique

I like it there is something very appealing to me those attics with slanted ceilings they make cute sewing rooms. I love the large window

donnajean

My grandfather did this in their house & it was my uncles room.

beckyj

my sewing room has 4 foot knee walls on 2 sides. the end walls have windows or doors. I use each cubby to put fabric in, in boxes. they are open. I plan to make quilt covers for their fronts to make them look better. each cubby labeled. I've hung shelves on hooks with salvages. They are for sorting, can't pile to high, or will touch ceiling. Squares by size, triangles, and small scraps for coin quilts.





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DebbE

Our last house in Calif had slanted walls on three sides in the sewing room upstairs -- it was a huge room (nearly 400 sq feet), but the slanted walls were a challenge. The previous owner built in bookshelves and one set of dresser drawers into one wall. The second was slanted down 2/3 and then straight, and DH built me a raised cutting board area, which left tons of room for a really heavy and very long table that I put there, to sew on. Put fabric on the table edge to cover up, and used the area under for storage. It was pretty and functional. The third wall was by the window, and both high ends were next to the centered window, and dropped down to the corners. DH and I built in cabinets on each side for fabric storage & put a window seat in the center that had a lift out to put storage into the seat. I loved that room....it was charming, functional, full of light and all mine!