Yours is much nicer looking. The natural light is nice too and the layout is also looking good in there. Your work area is much more organized and clean looking too. I seem to have an endless benchtop full of stuff with no allocated space for it. By the time space is allocated for what's there, another pile has built up with no place to go...infinite pile!
Everything here is unfinished basement, which I actually wanted. That is, until I see others with finished basements and I start thinking about finishing mine. The thought soon passes when I start thinking about having to move everything to make room to do the finishing.
From your pictures, I think I just figured out one problem I have here. Workbenches are all multi-purpose or at least trying to be. I need to make them more specialized by craft/project (or what's being done at each one).
