For anyone who feels like their sewing room is the worst one out there, dont worry...I got your back! We call mine Suzys Dungeon. Its a corner of an unfinished basement, furnished with my 35 years of accumulated sewing supplies and whatever odds and ends of furniture turned up in the garage or at thrift stores. It started out as one re-purposed 7-foot computer table. Remember the heavy kind that has a little cut out along the edge where we used to put our keyboards when computers were the size of a wheelbarrow? That shelf is the perfect size for a sewing machine, and is height adjustable. The serger sits on the same table, and there is a 6-foot folding table for cutting, and 3 wooden sewing machine desks at the other end of the room should I want to break out a different machine or work on one that needs repair. My husband put up some clearance paneling and some unfinished 1x8 shelf planks on the lower foundation walls as a birthday gift to me last May. Paneling keeps the dust down and reflects light better than the concrete walls, and the planks along the top create shelves. The tall Ott Lite was a Mothers Day gift, and the other two Ott Lites were bought on separate occasions for under $10 each at Joanns. They were 85% off because they have chipped shades and had to be damaged out, but the chip doesnt change the way that they work. I smoothed the edge of the chip with an emery board. There is a halogen light ceiling fixture (not Ott), from a thrift shop, and a couple of cheapo clamp lamps to help out when I am doing a project that needs more light. Any time I go to Joanns or Walmart, I ask if they have any cardboard bolts that are going to be recycled. I take as many as they will give me, and thats how I get my fabric out of the bins and onto the shelf where I can see it and stop buying more of what I already have because I forgot it was in a bin. I share the space with the furnace, which makes it warm and dry in the winter months, and there are a couple of peaceful spiders in the corners that help me out by catching the mosquitoes in the summer. Its motley and certainly nothing out of house beautiful, but Im proud to have a space dedicated to sewing, and that we were able to do so much with so little. Im also proud to make everybody elses space look so sophisticated!
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:52:25 +0000
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