My Sewing Room Re-Do

Hello readers I have my newly updated and organized sewing room to share with you. A few years ago Mr. P built me a huge sewing table with the idea I would be able to sew and quilt on that table. It worked well for a few years, but I ended up piling more and more stuff on the table; like my scissors and bobbins and presser feet, and more because I had no place to put them. Well Mr. P. is very organized and doesn't like a lot of stuff and it drove him crazier than me that I had so much stuff around me. So we started brainstorming ideas to make my small sewing room more functional for me. We talked about finding some cupboards and drawers from the home improvement store in the kitchen department that he could attach to the walls. The only issue with that is the drawers for the built-ins were too deep. That would mean piling stuff on top of stuff in the drawers, which would end up becoming a big mess. So I continued to look at Pinterest for ideas and did Google searches.

I ended up stumbling upon a flat filing cabinet that was a Martha Stewart Living design at Home Decorators online. Apparently Home Decorators is a Home Depot Company. They have a lot of great looking furniture for every room in the house too. (I am not an affiliate.) We had to take measurements and see what would fit and work in my small sewing space. I have a few sewing machines, 2 were in tables and I needed one more table for the machine I use a lot that used to be in the table Mr. P. had built that he took apart. So I got another table first (ordered that table from Amazon..not an affiliate). The flat filing cabinet would work on one wall and the apothecary hutch would fit on top of the hutch and that would store most of my sewing supplies that I used the most. The narrower drawers even came with drawer dividers that can be divided in 2 configurations too! But I needed something else closer to the machines and found the 4-drawer rolling cart, which is perfect for my bobbins, presser feet, and more and I can roll it closer as needed.

Mr. P. had to build all the pieces first, because they are shipped flat and they are heavy! He knows how to build stuff, so it wasn't too hard for him, but I would have no chance if I had to do it by myself. He ran into a couple of issues with the drawers. He needed to shim them so they would glide smoothly. He also screwed the drawer dividers from the bottom in a few places to keep the drawers more rigid in the large filing cabinet. I was putting my thread in one of the narrow drawers and it started to sag from the weight. That's when he decided he needed to add the screws for support. I also decided to put my thread in the smaller bottom drawer.

I am thrilled with my new improved sewing room and the furniture looks fabulous and works well for me. I hope I can keep things tidier now! I also rearranged my cutting and ironing room to make it nicer too. So without further ado, here are my 2 rooms, both the before and after photos~

Before shot when part of the room was empty, except for my stuff piled up on the floor.

After with my wheeling drawer cart in between 2 of my machines.

After photo with my serger and another machine on the floor. What can I say, I love all my machines!!!

Another before photo.

Before photo with mess piled up in anticipation for redo.

Before photo.

Before photo.

Before photo.

Before photo.

After photo of my new flat filing cabinet and hutch.

After photo.

After photo of one sewing machine with drawer cart.

Now onto my cutting and ironing room that I reorganized~

Cutting table and rulers.

Ironing table.

My fabric, computer (need to stand more, so put my computer on top).

Cutting table.

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Re-Organized Sewing Room

I used to have 2 sewing/crafting spaces. One room held my sewing machines and the other room held my cutting table, my fabric and my ironing table. Last week Mr. P. wanted to put the exercise equipment in the space that had my fabric, iron and cutting table. We had the re-bounder, the free weights, the weight bench, the mat and the sit-up thingamajig in the garage and it 's too cold this time of year out there. So I had to move it all out and put it in the other room. Well almost all of it out. The ironing table could stay and I got to move one sewing machine in the small table into that room with the exercise equipment. The large cutting table is now in the garage. Most everything else is all in my small sewing space. I organized some things, threw out some stuff and donated a couple of boxes of stuff too. I still have a lot of crap stuff, but I'm too worn out right now to purge any more things. I find it hard to know what to toss as I need my sewing and crafting supplies and some of the handmade things I love, but I could get rid of some of the ones I don't like as much. That stuff will be waiting for me another day because I didn't sew for 3 straight days because that's how long the rearranging took,

Then I needed to take my favorite sewing machine in for repair because the thread was getting jammed when I tried to free-motion quilt. So I cannot work on my bags for the bag of the month club until I can get my machine back. I could use another machine, but the one in for repair has more power since it's a semi-industrial and can handle the heavy layers, whereas my other machines struggle too much and then it's no fun for me or my machine. It will take 3 weeks before I get a call telling me what the repair will cost and then who knows how much longer before it gets repaired. So meanwhile I am working on other things that I can do on a different machine.

Here is my re-organized sewing space:

My sewing space has 2 doors that open into the room, but I now need to keep the one on the left closed so I have more space inside the room.

Closet on the left is stuffed full of supplies too.

My fabric is stored in wire drawers. These are the kind of drawers that you typically use in a closet space. I have a small portable design wall in front of the window. Those are the Quilter's Garden Blocks on there now. I got some curtains up now too. Mr. P. moved the curtains into the other room that were in this room.

Another view of the closet and the closed door on the left is giving me some space to put a couple of rolling carts that hold supplies and tools. Plus I have a hanging door thing with pockets that I made to hold some tools too.

Looking straight into the room. I do have an ironing board too, but prefer the ironing table in the other room. I have baskets of stuff under my table too. I am glad to have a sewing space all my own.

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