Subform Solution with Limited Space - MS Access

Question

I've been looking and trying a bunch of different things but I can't solve my situation:

A room contains furniture. I need an inventory/details about this furniture as well as the room. The user measures the room with some other details, then IDEALLY would use subforms to add furniture and their details using a multi-item subform. However I have VERY LIMITED space. This is intended for a tablet PC, so screen space is next to nothing. I need to incorporate pictures and description boxes etc, so I basically have about 1-2 fields wide by 7-8 fields long to put my subform in.. problem is the furniture itself has about 15 fields.

So I think, due to space constraints and weird requirements, I need something that isn't a subform; maybe a link to another form which the user could add furniture without having to re-populate the Room information (ie the room number, building number etc).

Ideas?

Answer 1

Use a subform but include only item name and quantity(?). Put an add button somewhere suitable and use that to add items to what ever form is contained in the current subform. The add button can open a an unbound or bound form.