Weird question re my craft room Reno

I actually dream of having a room where I can set up a large table in the center of the room.

I keep shelves (I know, I've said this over and over and over) on my desks to optimize storage. Is there something like this you can add to the center in order to improve it's function and decrease wasted space?

Is the desk one piece or do you have 2 butted up together? If reaching the center is an issue due to the depth of 2 desks, can you cut down one or both a little bit so you can fully use the center for storage? If it's one, could you trim it down on one side and hide the cut line?

Even though I have a pegboard in my office and I truly enjoy looking at all of the pretty things on it, I hate that I'm facing a wall. I don't mind it for my computer, but for crafting, I'd like to be able to set up a TV to watch and being only a few feet from a wall makes that a nearly impossible task. I also feel like I'm not 'in the mix' of things but if I had a large desk in the center of the room, I'd be able to have people sit on the other side and interact with me (crafting, too or just chatting with me).

Can you compromise and push the desk against a wall on one side but have it function more like a peninsula? You can use the area against the wall for a lot of good storage for things you reach for often, but clear up some space to have a wider walking path on one side depending on what your room size is. You could probably cut it down and face the 'ugly' cut side towards the wall to hide it with little effort if the size is still an imposition.

Not sure if my ideas are making sense as I don't know what your space looks like, but I'd try and rearrange where the desk is located and/or modify the size of it a bit before giving up on it entirely. Then again, you might enjoy having a desk along a wall...everyone is different!

I think it's a personal preference, and you could try it out.  But for ME, I've had the desk along the wall before, and I didn't like feeling like I was staring right AT the wall.  (not to mention, my back was to the door, which I just don't like in general.) 

In the last two houses we've lived in, I've had the desk 'facing into the room' which I like a lot better.  The craft room I'm currently in is kind of square so I have the desk angled in the middle of the room with a small table backed up to it, so you can walk all the way around the work surfaces.

ETA:  I found the credenza part of a computer desk at Goodwill for $10, and I now have that sitting at the 'front' edge of my desk, kind of in the middle of the work surface.  This gives me vertical space for storage-  I keep my ATG gun, most-often used tools, etc. on the shelves of that credenza so they're within reach.  

ETA2:  the window in my room is very low, and is in the middle of that wall, so there's no way I could put the desk up against that wall. The way I have my desk angled, the window is off my right side, so I can look out-- and the cats can hop up onto the windowsill without getting into my crafting space. (although they do that anyway, lol.)  

I also like to be able to stand up and look at my layouts and I felt like I couldn't do that when the desk was up against the wall. (but that's because the whole wall above the desk space was my storage shelves...)

I love the big work surface you have in your area, woodysbetty! (of course, I would have all that space covered with all manner of stuff, but still... I love seeing a big expansive work surface, lol.)
--and totally off topic, but before now, I always read your name as "Woodsy Betty" lol.

I always read your name wrong too! WoodsyBetty, then I have to read it again to remind myself.  Thanks for the story behind the name, it might help me remember the letters

I love your scrap room.  I'm an everything-around-the-wall person, but that's because it's easier with a wheelchair. It does get a bit boring though; I love little nooks and crannies, which are completely useless, and shelves - I'd love shelves! But I can't reach higher than bee's knee so there's little point

I like my desk in the middle. I don't care for staring at a wall.

And, your questions are not silly! The Peas have great ideas.

I have often looked at scraproom photos and envied the people who had room for the big island in the middle of the room. Mine is way too narrow for that. I would say keep the big desk in the middle of the room and keep the walls for storage or displays. If there is room to walk around your desk, that gives you more access to work space, whereas if it is against the wall you would need to reach across it.

It really is personal preference, but I find I don't use my table when it is against a wall--it turns into more of a dumping ground or staging area for projects than a work space. In fact, this thread makes me thing I should do some rearranging! So I like the middle or the "pennisula" style much better.

Awesome space, WoodysBetty!!

Me too. My room is pretty small and there's no room for that. I have my desks running along one wall. It works pretty well for me but there isn't much extra room if, for example, someone comes to craft with me.

i have an L-shape setup and i'm having a hard time using my big table for scrapping, i tend to stick to my desk which houses my computer, i keep trying to venture over because there is double the space---good luck with your final setup

I know there have been a lot of votes for not facing a wall so I will just say I do face a wall and I'm quite ok with it. I have too much stuff in my room to have my desk face inwards and the window has the ducted heating vent under it and means I would have my back to the door (which is actually the bigger consideration for me) so the logical place for my desk was facing a wall. I keep a lot of my (limited) supplies on my desk and have some vintage sewing patterns on the wall which make me happy, and honestly, I couldn't imagine not having my desk against a wall.