I just added track lighting over my cutting area. Like it alot. I also have a mini fridge. I'm lucky because this is an upstairs bedroom and it has it's own bathroom. We just bought a shop vacuum for only $29.95 after rebate at Menard's to keep in the sewing room exclusively to clean threads and scraps off the carpet. I also have a small electric heater so that in the winter we don't have to heat the whole upstairs too much (no one sleeps up there) so when I sew I just warm my immediate area.