Kids, chores and does it ever end?

It is 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning.  Daughter dearest is at her friends house (sleepover from Friday night that I am assured sleep was the last thing achieved), #2 son is sleeping and hubby and #1 son are up and planning their day.  We are finishing up #1 sons bedroom (in our basement).  Today, they paint and lay the hardwood flooring.  Tomorrow they hang the suspended ceiling.  Chris is hanging out his electrical wiring so that it is hidden in the walls, coming out only where needed and not dangling around all over his room.  He has a surround sound system and hated seeing the wiring draped here and there.  Now it will not be visible.  He chose a tan color for the room and with the golden hardwood flooring, it will look fabulous.  In a year or so, when he moves out, this room becomes my sewing room.  Chris has taken very good care of limiting the number of holes in his walls and has always been an uber neat freak.

What I like about it is the size, roughly 12 by 12.  I have a 4 treadle loom (and when the conversion kit arrives, it will become a 6 treadle loom), a spinning wheel, a treadle sewing machine, 4 other sewing machines and I need room to house them.  Right now, the wheel and loom are in my den, taking up way too much space.  I have enough yarn (and fiber to be spun into yarn) to outfit most of the local school with hats, mittens, socks, sweaters and afghans.  I've got enough fabric to make quilts for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and enough fat quarters to make pillowcases to go with them.  I refuse to estimate the number of books I have but I've seen libraries that have less.  I don't need a room, I need a whole house!

But since I can't afford a house, 1 room will have to do.  I've been on Pinterest (mind crack for computer junkies) and found a whole host of ideas on how to store yarn, fabric, sewing room layout......it's obvious to me that a few trips to the ReStore store for cabinets (both wall mount and 6 stand alone cabinets) will be a start.  I saw a perfect center island made with 6 stand alone cabinets and a piece of countertop.  Perfect.  A place to cut fabric that can remain up.  And with all the storage under the island, do I smell another shopping expedition?  Why yes, I think I do.......

Well, time to start MY day.  I've laundry, vacuuming, floor washing, meal making........but as I watch the room take shape, it is fun imagining what I will do to it after he's gone.