This is officially the Dressing Room. It's nice and spacious for my brides. The couch is a futon. It makes a nice transition from a place for customers to sit to a bed to sleep on since this room also doubles as my bedroom. The large drawer under the bed houses my linens during it's Dressing Room state.

To the right of the bookcases (outside the view of this picture) is a door to a spacious walk in closet/storage room. Here I keep my personal items, dressers, shelves and a clothes rack. We also keep out of season items here like Christmas decorations.

This is the Kitchen/Pantry/Laundry Room that you can get to if you turn left behind my office chair.

It's a great room we use for extra storage of food stuffs and doing laundry. We had planned on having a freezer, but I was given the nice refrigerator you see on the left. It has a large freezer compartment and I can keep lunch/snack type foods in the fridge part.

Walking past the office takes you into the Main Room. This is a generous 20' X 20' room with a full bathroom to one side. The gown set in the middle of the room is there to show you how I like to present my brides with their gowns. This is really cool because a bride doesn't otherwise get this view of her dress. Pictures are nice, but you won't believe the looks I see on bride's faces when they see their gown this way. It's a kin to falling in love.

This also makes it easy to explain how the bustle works.

This space also doubles as a workout studio for me and my son.

This is the view from the pole you saw in the last shot. I love this mirror! It really lets you see everything. Behind it is my furnace and water heater. I figured I had to have doors to this area anyway so why not make them mirrored? It works great.

The door to the left of the mirrors is my work closet. I've not had a closet just for work before, it's great to not have to mix client's things in my personal closet.

The hanger in the center of the picture is where I put items that are finished and ready for pick-up. If a client wants to try something on before taking it, I can easily whisk it into the Dressing Room (you can see the door in the far right of the picture).

Along the back wall of the Main Room is the Craft/Beading Center. Here is stored things that are not directly related to sewing. Embellishment and Beading supplies are here too. One cabinet has ribbons neatly arrange in boxes. Another has buttons. If you click on this thumbnail to get the larger view you can more easily see the tiny drawer cabinets in the left corner of the countertop. I use these for my large collection of beads.

This is my Layout Table. I couldn't decide exactly where to put it so I had them put wheels on it. I also couldn't decide what size to make it. I wanted it to be 5' X 10', but I didn't want to give up that much space in my fitting area or work out space. So I asked the contractor to make a table 4' X 8' with a 1' drop leaf along the 8' side. See next picture.

This is the view from the back of the Layout Table. The front is cabinets. You can see the drop leaf in it's up position. That white thing on the end is an underlit panel I can use for pattern drafting/copying and designing.

The table was custom built by the contractor who did my renovating of the room. I drew up plans of what I wanted and gave them detailed drawings with meticulous measurements of what I wanted. They did not follow my plans and some day I will find someone who will fix the table to be what I originally wanted.  

This is the main workstation for sewing. It's very much like all my others. I'm a creature of habit in this way. I'm used to having my tools in certain places.

The counter is a generous 10' X 3'. Great for wedding gown work. The three cabinet doors you see under the counter hold my meager stash. I don't keep yards of fabric around that aren't designated for a project. I've just never gotten into that, but I do keep reasonably sized scraps of past projects, a box of shoulder pads and another one of zippers.

To the left of the picture is the pressing corner. Supplies are in the cabinet behind the board and in the drawers.

Here's the view of the Main Room from the Workstation. The pole is a pain, but it holds the house up so I guess I'll work around it. You can't see it in this picture but near the top of the pole on the panel that has all those butterflies on it is a hook that I use to hang wedding gowns on while discussing items with the bride or when they are being steamed.

The dressmaker form was a gift from Talbots. They often have antique items to decorate their stores and this form was in one of the stores I service for many years. I tried to buy it often. One day corporate headquarters told them it was stale and to get rid of it . . . The other mannequin forms you see in the pictures above also came to me as Talbots upgraded their display items. A good idea for those of you wanting some forms for display is to tell your favorite store that if they ever need to get new ones you would be happy to cart the old ones off for them.