Dh and I have a 1460'sq home. Way too big for just 2 people and all the extra space has enabled lots of clutter accumulation which I've been working hard to eliminate. We have turned one bedroom into an office and taken out a bunch of walls to make the house more open and conducive to how we like to live. That still leaves two extra bedrooms. One has a queen bed and gets lots of use throughout the year from friends and family. The other one, not so much. It has a twin bed and tends to accumulate all the odds and ends. It also has one wall of floor to ceiling bookcase and we store most of our books there. I keep trying to make it into a usable guest room but it just won't take.
I'm thinking of taking the bed out and making it into a proper room for sewing and home storage. It already holds all the clothing we don't use - dh has 2 trench coats and several jackets that were given to him by family members and he wont' get rid of them. We live in a climate in which a flannel shirt or fleece jacket is all that is ever needed. And dh has those, he uses them, but can't bear the thought of getting rid of clothes. Ok, they live in the spare closet.
So I'm thinking, why not just change the function of the room? I have a tall cabinet (the old pantry from our kitchen) and a nightstand that would work well for organized closed storage. My rectangular kitchen table will be perfect to set up a sewing station on, and I will replace that with a small pedestal I've been wanting. And moving the big cabinet will free up lots of visual space in the kitchen area now that I'll have a big fridge in there.
My only concern is that a work room will quickly devolve into a junk room. That room faces my bedroom and I don't like to see a messy room every time I walk by it.
Has anyone tried this? Did it work, not work? Any issues that came up?