new sewing room

Fabrous news!!! Enjoy your new spot, I love "just down the hall from the kitchen". ;-)

Creating is most peculiar for some of us. Sometimes I can sew or paint or cook in isolation and am as happy as a clam; sometimes I enjoy creating in the middle of mayhem. Polly

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Very true, same here. But, let's be honest, sewing in a nice sunny room is so much more inspiring than in an all-artificial-light basement den. And, let's face it: next-to-the-kitchen is our favourite situation when it comes to consuming, isn't it? As for work - well... ;->

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That's a big thing for me. Now I can sew and keep a watch on cooking or bread rising.The phone is closer. I never had a phone downstairs and didn't like that either. I refuse to run for a ringing phone but never had a way to make a call if I had to in an emergency unless I remembered to bring my cell phone down.

I'm frequently alone when doing things in the house. DH walks most morning with his friends and may be gone 2-3 hours. That's my time. Being on the living floor of the house gives me the feeling of not being isolated. I don't mind being alone and usually prefer to work when no one is around. I hate the "feeling" of isolation.

I think the natural light was the biggest factor in choosing the room. We have 4 bedrooms in this house. One is used as our as my kids say a "media" room. So that leaves 2 spare bedrooms. Emptying one for sewing still leaves a guest room. When discussing which room to use we made the mutual decision to go with the one with the best light. Everything thing else is a bonus for me.

-------------- EMERGENCY call from Juno: "Help! I've fallen and can't get up the stairs! Bring fabric!" Enjoy your wonderful new space. Natural light beats artificial, and being close to food is a big bonus. Cea

But natural light IN ADDITION to artificial is even better, for these old eyes. I have both incandescent and fluorescent light fixtures and a large window in my basement sewing room, plus little gooseneck lamps to direct light exactly where needed. These, at IKEA are fabulous:

The neck is long and can be curved to focus light where you need it most, but the head is so mall it does not get in the way. I have one at my sewing machine and at both embroidery machines. Love 'em. NAYY

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I worked for 45 years in my sun porch with 12 windows. Sometimes too much light. :-) Had to adjust blinds to reduce glare.

close to food is a big bonus.

Needing more fabric is a huge emergency, bigger than falling. thanks,Cea Juno

I like that and I like the price. Think I'll ask my daughter to pick up a couple for me the next time she's near IKEA.

I think I could handle that problem without much difficulty. Itgoes along with my having to ask DH to move to his left a little, in the morning, while we eat breakfast and read the morning paper.

I think you'll love it Juno, the first thing I do when I go into the sewing room is plug in the iron, second thing is turn on those little IKEA lamps. Helpful hint: the on/off switch is a cord rocker and it's a ways down the cord from the base, I just wrap excess cord around the base until the switch is nearer, makes it easier for me to find it each time, there's still plenty of cord left for plugging it in.

Beverly

Nowadays, I quit sewing at sunset. Fluorescent light just doesn't focus properly.

I think the natural light was the biggest factor in choosing the room. We have 4 bedrooms in this house. One is used as our as my kids say a "media" room. So that leaves 2 spare bedrooms. Emptying one for sewing still leaves a guest room. When discussing which room to use we made the mutual decision to go with the one with the best light. Everything thing else is a bonus f

I am excited for you, Juno; I have never had a basement, but it sounds like a boring place, being alone in a dark place with just artificial light. My sewing/computer room is the spare bedroom; which leaves us without a guest room. That's okay since we seldom have overnight guests. My younger daughter and her husband & children used to come annually, but now its just the couple and they stay in a hotel. Emily

That's because fluorescent sources tend to be "peaky" -- a whole lot of one wavelength, not so much of something else, still less of another wavelength. Like so:

Some things you can do to help mitigate the issue:

1) Use a mixture of fluorescent sources, like a warm white and a cool white. 2) Look for fluorescent bulbs with a high CRI, Color Rendition Index. Sometimes that means a web hunt. What the CRI means: 3) Try a "Reveal" incandescent bulb near where you're sewing -- ASAP. The 100 Watt bulbs seem to be off the shelf now, and the 75 W will be going next year, iirc. If you like the light, consider stocking up.

GE has released a compact fluorescent under the Reveal label that's supposed to be quite good; I haven't tried one yet.

Maybe some coupons here:

I can't tell you much about the LED lamps, other than they're coming down in price, and some of them give off amazing amounts of radio waves, which is considered a bad thing when you live with a ham radio operator. My new sewing machine, the Juki F-600, has a pair of very bright LED bulbs... when I switch back to my grandma's old White or my old Singer

15-91, I *really* notice a difference.

Kay