Sewing Room After and Before

I've said it before. I've been blessed with an enormous sewing room in our new house. The problem has been how to arrange it so the space "works". This past fall I purchased a copy of the magazine "Where Women Create" and studied the pictures. I was disappointed to see so many "professional" spaces but I learned alot.

After lots of consideration, I began moving things around on New Year's Day. My husband came up and said, why do you need a "livingroom"? One of the features I liked in some of the spaces in the magazine was a sitting room area. A place to read, watch TV, do handwork. I'm trying to use what I already own. I like how it turned out.

Last night Mike asked me to help bring in the one thing I've been waiting for--for almost four years! When we sold our house, the new owner hired Mike to remodel her kitchen. Mike brought home the long piece of solid surface countertop that topped the "bar" area in our old kitchen. It's been waiting to be used ever since.

At last! A work surface I can spread out on!! Gone are the days of trying to do things on the dining room table or a wobbly folding table. The work day will not go by fast enough. Tonight I am going to reorganize my fabric. I haven't decided which direction the work table will go. You can see my sewing "area" in the background of this "before" photo.

It isn't pretty.

Maybe I will be inspired to finally finish this.