I'm renovating the shop. New insulation is up. Paint is down. New lights and bench are going in.

I'm looking for ideas on how you are being creative with your space.

What crafty idea did you utilize to take advantage of space?

How do you stow or rack your hand tools, wrenches etc so you know what you have, meaning it's readily accessible and you can find it.

How do you stow your mowers, blowers, bikes, weed eaters, chainsaws, and bodies?

How did you lay out your table saw, jointer, planer, band or chop saw?

Where's your reloading bench? (The wife will be thrilled that function is moving out of the house.)

I would love pics and ideas of what you are proud of or find kind of crafty.

I've got a 24 x 36 pole shop on slab. Clean and ready for ideas.

I'm tired of struggling with every little project. From buying something I know I have but can't find until I use the one I just bought, to just tiring of moving "stuff" out of my way repeatedly.

The shop is clear. My crap is in a sea can ready for a home.

Any little tip or idea is welcome!

Tag. I need ideas too.

In my 22 x 26 garage / shop:
- South wall: 50% is a lumber rack and 50% is floor to ceiling shelves. Screws, nails, and such are there in either plastic boxes or wide mouth jars. Old peanut butter or pickle jars tend to be best.

- North wall: 10' long workbench attached to wall with storage underneath. The wall is covered with french cleats and custom hangers for any tool that isn't in a tool chest. All cordless tools, batteries, and chargers are in a custom shelf on the wall to conserve space.

- Underneath the workbench are 22gal plastic bins called 'safety', 'woodworking', and 'sand/paint' since I tend to use them the most.

- Back wall: Large shelves big enough to hold large plastic bins with labels such as 'electrical', 'air tools', 'gardening', etc. Putting things in bins made it easier to find and fetch things when they're needed.

- Front corner: Bench with air compressor, anvil, and couple grinders mounted on a board so they can be clamped easily to the workbench when needed but otherwise stored away.

If your shop is clean, now is likely the best time to epoxy the floor.

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Ok, I admit I am a bit anal retentive about organization.

Drills & Accessories





Shoes & Miscellaneous Off the Floor



Cabinets (From scratch) & Sawhorse Storage

West Wall



East Wall



Custom Rolling Table Saw Stand & Storage



Workbench Organizer (for Fasteners & the like)



Custom Detailer's Cabinet for all my auto detailing products & equipment





Custom Break Front Living Room Library (for my wife)

(Disclaimer: Ok, it's technically not for the workshop, but it did start out there. It's the largest, most complex thing I've ever built.)

bryan11: I like your idea of marked bins, I'm thinking of the Costco shelving to go along with that. The french cleat idea is interesting as I want to keep the floor clear. Dang I hadn't thought about epoxy...

bigdeal: I'm just gonna turn in my mancard now. Holy crap

You have a lot of really great ideas in your pics, very thoughtful, thanks for posting. Beautiful wall feature by the way!

One my solutions I applied in my garage.

I wanted something to store items and be easy to retrieve and identify. I made shelving sized to hold Rubbermaid storage containers.

The picture below is just a portion of my shelving.

Hope Photobucket works. I have not signed up to another photo posting site yet.

An oldie, but a goodie!



Seriously though, the DIY website may have an idea'r or two for you!

I prefer a standing height/stool work bench so I took a Craftsman workbench tool box put it on a riser and bought a Tactor Supply under truck storage box and put it on a riser and have a long look solid bench.

Other than that I just have a Craftsman toolbox and wire shelving.
I need to build some sort of rolling cabinet for my mitre saw.
Good timing on this thread as I need to do a bit of organzing as I'll have both my project cars in 1 garage shortly.

My wheel barrow is what takes up a lot of space and have yet to figure out a way to store it out of the way.

A friend of mine just installed this in a new shop on two walls. I like it a lot, and am considering it in our new home garage.



ProSlat

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
I prefer a standing height/stool work bench so I took a Craftsman workbench tool box put it on a riser and bought a Tactor Supply under truck storage box and put it on a riser and have a long look solid bench.

Other than that I just have a Craftsman toolbox and wire shelving.
I need to build some sort of rolling cabinet for my mitre saw.
Good timing on this thread as I need to do a bit of organzing as I'll have both my project cars in 1 garage shortly.

My wheel barrow is what takes up a lot of space and have yet to figure out a way to store it out of the way.

Hey Black

I've had one of these for several years. It's worked fine.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Hom...e-Outside/B00HSW1D1I

Check out Harbor freight if you have one near by. Some good idea's there i believe.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
A friend of mine just installed this in a new shop on two walls. I like it a lot, and am considering it in our new home garage.

ProSlat

My BIL had something like that in one of his garages in the past. He liked them, but as I recall they were a bit spendy.

I'm thinking about using the french cleat system when it comes time to organize my garage.

A roll around tool box is great. Kennedy is pretty good, but not as good as Snap-On. There are lots of used Snap-on tool boxes available.

For long items such as pipe I used 1.5" square steel tubing welded at a slight up angle onto same size square tubing. Screwed several of these onto the shop walls/studs and this works great.

Also built a welding bench for TIG welding out of 1.5" square tubing plus piece of smooth steel plate on top.

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A roll around tool box is great.

I've never had one, but plan to now instead of hanging hand tools on wall, etc. Plus the bigger boxes have saw/drill-sized drawers which will be nice as well.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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A roll around tool box is great.

I've never had one, but plan to now instead of hanging hand tools on wall, etc. Plus the bigger boxes have saw/drill-sized drawers which will be nice as well.

The more expensive US General brand from Harbor Freight are really good.
I like the US General better than my Craftsman. Thicker steel and better ball bearing slides.

I have this one
https://m.harborfreight.com/44...r-cabinet-68784.html

And need to get one of these
https://m.harborfreight.com/30...tool-cart-61427.html

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Originally posted by Black92LX:

And need to get one of these
https://m.harborfreight.com/30...tool-cart-61427.html

Those were $160 a few weeks ago, I picked one up. Very handy so far.

Thanks everyone for the interest and comments. I'm liking the conversation so far.