I'm banished to the basement by choice, at my old house (before we had kids) I had a bedroom to do all my gun stuff. When we moved I claimed the finished basement as my own. Yeah , that lasted about a year , so I moved my stuff into the back uncarpeted area by the utility room and it's been good. When I'm down there banging away the family is 2 stories above on the opposite side of the house and no amount of brass tumbling or bullet pulling (yeah, it happens) can be heard, I can put on some music and make noise at night without disturbing the babies or wife.
My wife is concerned about toxic materials associated with ammunition and so I wear basement shoes when I'm doing anything ammo related to keep from tracking anything through the house where little ones and dogs could be affected . even if I could (but I can't ) sort brass in the living room, I wouldn't want to.