Last year we built a new home on our ranch, with a detached garage, 24 X 48. My shop area is separated from the car area with a wall-double doors. The shop area is further divided into 5 rooms/areas, one for woodworking, another area for ranch related stuff, water storage and pump area, house storage, and last but most important, my "hangar". Right after we moved in, I drove by a carpet store in town and saw huge piles of almost new industrial carpet by their dumpster. The store owner gave it all to me just to haul off. There were pieces large enough to do wall to wall in all the rooms. We just cut to fit and laid it down loose. The timing was perfect, as the work benches were not yet built. The floor is warm, and the dirt, mud and balsa stuff vacuums up easily.