Our house has a small addition with a bedroom, small storeroom, bathroom, and what I guess was sort of a TV room.  This became our daughter's space and, since she was an art student and also because she doesn't watch TV, my husband built a long table along one wall and tore out the carpet and put in linoleum so she could draw and paint. I took over a corner and put in a kiln for metal clay. I started enameling in that small corner, and it wasn't so bad (see pictures of spoons). When she moved out several months ago I waited a respectful day or two, then I took over the whole space!

I have an enameling area with a brick Paragon kiln, a middle area for miscellaneous stuff, and another area for metal clay with a muffle kiln. I also have a dental kiln that I haven't used yet, but looks like it will be nice for small enamels and experiments. It's nice to be able to separate the metal work from the enamel area, and I happily roll around in my chair. The table is nearly 12 feet in length and there are surfboards above the shelves. I have Thompson unleaded enamels in one storage unit, Thompson leaded in another, and Japanese leaded enamels in still another.  I wet pack from plastic spoons.  

Although you can't see the windows, the ventilation is good and there is a big mango tree shading that side of the house. The small storeroom became my husband's more traditional metalworking bench. We have a complete woodshop and lathe shed outside. 

Tina,

I had a great laugh at the respectful day or two after your daughter moved out - I did the same thing when my younger son went off to college -  two days and it was MINE again - a beautiful new guest room. My neighbors saw all the furniture and junk on the curb and asked me "Who Moved?" - 

I mark each spoon with the color number. I only wash what I need for that day, right in the spoon. I pipet in distilled water then pour the water off into a cup, several times until the water is clear. The spoons have enough slope to get a gradient of wet to drier enamel to pick from. I line th spoons up a little to the side of the work area and only move the one I'm using right in front of me, reducing contamination.  When I'm done and if I'm going to let the enamels dry overnight, I have a plastic shoebox lid that fits over them to keep them clean while they dry. This works for me!