I think this is the longest it's ever taken me to redecorate a room, thank you Covid for the major delays! Usually I can get a room primed and painted in just a few days, but since I procrastinated in getting my son's stuff out and into his new room, by the time I was ready to start painting we were under lock down and paint wasn't considered essential so I was out of luck. Unfortunately I was eager to start getting my new room ready so I used up all the white paint we had and painted the closet, started on the ceiling and trim. Weeks went by before I could get more paint! Once our local hardware store opened back up, I had my husband pick me up a can of paint. At this point I had already decided that I was going to paint the room white, logically I should have had him pick up two cans, but I didn't. My one gallon can of white paint didn't go very far.
Quarantine was extended and extended, finally I ordered some paint for pick up at our local department store, unfortunately it took more than a week to arrive and by the time it arrived, quarantine was finally over!
My new sewing room is approximately nine and a half by ten feet. In the picture above you can see the closet area where I store my fabric and patterns. After redesigning it several times, this is what I decided worked best. This is another reason it took so long to do this room, there was a lot of furniture rearranging and shelf building going on to get the most use out of the space.
Below is a picture of my Kallex units where most of my supplies are housed. The centre shelf unit holds baskets of trims and laces. I positioned the first shelf up high so that I could store my sewing machine bag out of the way, although I'm not totally sure why I have it, I don't travel anywhere with my sewing machine lol.
For a sewing table, I choose to paint this old dresser and used a pallet table top that my sister-in-law gave us a few years. So far I'm loving this, the table top is so heavy that my machines don't vibrate the table at all.
Since the whole idea behind turning this room into a sewing room was so that I could have all my supplies in one room as opposed to scattered from one end of the house to the other, I really wanted to include all my shipping supplies. This area serves a duo purpose, it's where I take my photos and package up orders. It's great to finally have everything in one place where I can see everything at a glance. This is how it looks for now, in the future I'd like to get a six cube kallex unit for under the desk.
How do you organise your sewing space - I'd love to know!
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