I work in the "unfinished" part of our basement.....I painted the concrete foundation wall a butter yellow....altho the floors are the concrete, where I stand to cut fabric and work on longarm I layed down those large puzzle pieces found in kid's dept and now I noticed they have also appeared in box stores......in walking pathways I have long inexpensive runner type rugs and valances on the windows........to let in as much of the beautiful sunlite as possible. I also bought an electric broom to pick up threads/snippets. When done "playing" each day, I give the whole place a quick zip with elec/broom and when I come back down to play again all is neat and clean...well most of the time anyway!!!!