Configure layouts on a per-workspace basis: use layouts and apply layout modifiers selectively, depending on the workspace.

You can use this module by importing it into your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file:

import XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace

and modifying your layoutHook as follows (for example):

layoutHook = modWorkspace "baz" m1 $  -- apply layout modifier m1 to all layouts on workspace "baz"
             onWorkspace "foo" l1 $  -- layout l1 will be used on workspace "foo".
             onWorkspaces ["bar","6"] l2 $  -- layout l2 will be used on workspaces "bar" and "6".
             l3                      -- layout l3 will be used on all other workspaces.

Note that l1, l2, and l3 can be arbitrarily complicated layouts, e.g. (Full ||| smartBorders $ tabbed shrinkText def ||| ...), and m1 can be any layout modifier, i.e. a function of type (l a -> ModifiedLayout lm l a). (In fact, m1 can be any function (LayoutClass l a, LayoutClass l' a) => l a -> l' a.)

In another scenario, suppose you wanted to have layouts A, B, and C available on all workspaces, except that on workspace foo you want layout D instead of C. You could do that as follows:

layoutHook = A ||| B ||| onWorkspace "foo" D C