Rooster Studio - existing basement floor treatment

We are looking in to skim coats, self leveling underlayments and/or paint. For a 100 year old concrete floor it is in pretty good shape - but the surface has some pitting. Mostly, the existing concrete creates a lot of dust - and we need to be able to get the bead of acoustic sealant to bond for the base of our walls. Do you have any insight in to these options? We had some pricing for self leveling underlayment, polishing and staining and these would seriously cut in to our budget. Does anyone have any experience with older concrete floors, epoxy primer and a epoxy finish coat. Any peeling issues? It doesn't have to be beautiful - and we do have some area rugs to put down there. Our concerns are cost and bonding ability, plus we don't have any head room to spare. We don't want anything to start peeling in a year or so.... Thanks in advance for your help.

Is this a different 'Rooster Studio' that you were posting about previously? Its a lot easier if you keep to one post and add to it that way all the information is kept together :) if its a totally different place then I apologise for asking the question. In answer to your question do you not like laminate wood or real wood floors, with the better laminates you could just hoover the dust with an industrial hoover and probably latex it to level it then lay a 500 gauge polythene and an acoustic underlay which is 6mm or 8mm thick I think with the laminate anything from 8mm to 15mm thick I think, it looks good and sounds good as far as I'v read on here and some of the flooring can have 20 or 25 year guarantee, its what I'm using for my build.