Turning living room into sewing room
#41
Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Fairfax County, VA
Posts: 94
Go for it. Make your space work for you! I am turning our dining room into my sewing room since we only use it a few times a year. We own a condo and there is not much wiggle room unless I share the office with my SO - we tried and it did not work that great for us. Happy quilting!! Meghan
#42
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: York, S C
Posts: 265
You will not regret it! I am a widow, I did just that. We lived in a large home for 32 years that we builded to our liking then we moved 8 years ago and down sized. I sure did miss my craft/sewing room so for 7 years I endured with out my own space. Then DH passed away so as much as I miss him after 45 years of marriage I decided I would make me a fun room for my sewing and crafts. We still have a informal living room so now I am very happy with my own "play room". Good Luck!!
#43
Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 9
Hi,
When I retired, I bought a new kitchen table and put it in front of the living room window then I placed one of my sewing machines on the table. It is my favorite place to sew because the light is great and I can watch the comings and goings in my neighborhood. I added a loveseat to the room for guests. I also live by myself and appreciate having the house set up to please me.
Go for it!
When I retired, I bought a new kitchen table and put it in front of the living room window then I placed one of my sewing machines on the table. It is my favorite place to sew because the light is great and I can watch the comings and goings in my neighborhood. I added a loveseat to the room for guests. I also live by myself and appreciate having the house set up to please me.
Go for it!
#45
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
Posts: 8,562
I'm single, have done that and am DELIGHTED with it!
My productivity is way up. My accessibility if SO much better. There is more wall space for wallhangings.
In the new "living area" I have one recliner, one floor lamp, a chairside table, the TV, and my vintage secretary.
I tell people that if they want to visit me, they best be prepared to sit on a rolling chair at the sewing table! My buds, who actually visit infrequently, want to come here to quilt now.
I had my landlord install two 4 foot florescent lights in the ceiling -- $20 each from Lowes, great light now.
Couldn't be happier with my set up.
Jan in VA
My productivity is way up. My accessibility if SO much better. There is more wall space for wallhangings.
In the new "living area" I have one recliner, one floor lamp, a chairside table, the TV, and my vintage secretary.
I tell people that if they want to visit me, they best be prepared to sit on a rolling chair at the sewing table! My buds, who actually visit infrequently, want to come here to quilt now.
I had my landlord install two 4 foot florescent lights in the ceiling -- $20 each from Lowes, great light now.
Couldn't be happier with my set up.
Jan in VA
Last edited by Jan in VA; 11-15-2012 at 06:52 PM.
#47
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Mechanicsville, IA
Posts: 1,497
DH and I both share a love of quilting and quilting machines. Go for it! Our " living room" has 4 machines in tables. Two are working treadles and one is a work in progress. Eight more machines share the floor space and 3 featherweights are on display in a glass hutch. My " formal" dining room table is for laying out and planning blocks unless we are working on a big project downstairs. We sew and display machines in every room in the house except the kitchen, bathrooms and our bedroom. Downstairs we have a studio for the long arm, a spare bedroom that stores thread and fabric and a huge room with a large cutting table. Don't have much company so we live the way we choose!!!
#49
I agree! I live alone as well, and my living room is my sewing room. As the others said it is so convenient and is so much more pleasant. If anyone pops over they see whatever I'm in the middle of, if I invite people over it takes less time to clean the table once, than to clean it every night.
#50
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Carlisle, PA
Posts: 1,964
my living-room is part of a big L-shaped finished basement. The quilt studio is the smaller part of the 'L' so I'm always near my dh - he never complains about the 'hum' from my sewing machines but prefers it when I use one of my Featherweights - they're so quiet!
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