Congrats on such a great opportunity!! The best piece of advice I can give is to be sure you have LOTS of outlets and lights.
When deciding how I was going to lay out my sewing room, I took a piece of graph paper and drew the room to scale. I then took post-its (different colors for different types of furniture) and cut them to scale the size of the various pieces of furniture I had to use. I then would move the post-its around on the graph paper. Make a color copy and do it all over again. This way I could look at several different layouts at once. Tweek a layout or discard it all together. I found this immensely helpful.