How To Set Up Pegboard For Tools

While we'd all love to go on an organized workspace, it'due south easy to get bogged down past stuff, particularly when information technology comes to ability tools and hardware. Their odd, bulky shapes and small accessories make them tougher to store than, say, your winter apparel.

On top of that, not properly storing your tools and hardware could drastically lower their lifespan. And who wants to purchase new tools prematurely? That's right, no 1.

Thankfully, the organizational gods invented the Swiss cheese of wood: pegboard.

Pegboard is the storage classic that made fifty-fifty Bob Villa wax poetic. It has a place in whatsoever garage, especially since it can be easily modified to accommodate diverse tools and spaces.

Then make your garage smile. Souvenir information technology with any of these 6 DIY pegboard storage ideas that will organize all of your clutter in style:

i. The Quondam Standby Pegboard

white diy pegboard with hooks storing tools in a garage

Sometimes the classics just work. A pegboard panel mounted across your garage wall makes it easy to hang and brandish tools, keeping them off the workbench until you're set for them.

In fact, we like the thought of hanging your pegboard directly on height of a workstation or shelving unit so your hammers are right in that location when yous need them. The right hardware really makes a deviation here, as well.

Nosotros recommend using metal hooks (rather than plastic hooks, which don't agree upward to your tools' habiliment and tear as well), and investing in specialized hangers for hammers and screwdriver sets.

2. The All-Dolled-Up Pegboard

diy pegboard baskets and shelves

If your garage doubles as a living space or dwelling house gym, you need to set upwardly a storage area for your tools that's as like shooting fish in a barrel on the optics as it is functional.

Fortunately, adding pegboard is a habitation improvement project that tin fit right into even the almost sophisticated of habitation furnishings with a little paint and a mitered frame made from molding.

A word of advice:

Ever buffer the space backside the board with furring strips. This will ensure in that location's enough room in back for the hooks.

3. Pegboard Panels

modular pegboard storage panels

Are you the proud owner of a serious tool drove?

This genius pegboard storage solution is like the next dimension in pegboard panels — and it only looks complicated.

What nosotros like about this idea is how naturally information technology lends itself to categorization. Y'all could designate one panel for wrenches, one for hammers, and and so on.

The simply grab is the size:

At 12 inches across, those larger circular blades might not make the cut.

iv. Rolling Pegboard Cart

diy pegboard tool cart with wheels

You already have the tools, so why not put them to employ?

If you're gunning to get out the saw, y'all can easily build a rolling tool caddy in one afternoon. It works especially well for the handyman/handywoman who hates shuffling from workbench to wall just to think a different scrap.

The bones thought hither is pretty uncomplicated — four pieces of pegboard attached to a wooden frame fitted with casters.

Good with a welder?

Take this double-sided approach that might be a bit easier to maneuver through a crowded garage.

5. Sliding-Door Shop Cabinet

Looking to tackle an even larger project?

This sliding door shop cabinet plan looks promising. For starters, it features pegboard panels mounted along a sliding track that offers tons of support for heavy tools.

It besides has plastic hardware bins, which means no more spilled nails (your feet volition thank you) or lost washers (your screws will give thanks you).

6. Custom Pegboard Tool Holders

custom pegboard tool holders

Over at Popular Mechanics, Senior Editor Roy Berendsohn points out a common problem. He loves pegboard merely hates how easy information technology is to ataxia up the panel with too many tools.

His solution:

A pick of handmade tool hangers that lets you double, or even triple, the efficiency of a unmarried area. The tool hangers await nice, also. The hand-bent steel definitely says "serious builder at work."

And really, DIY pegboard hangers are a arts and crafts in their own right. Nosotros've seen tool holders made from cut PVC, a split garden hose used to store sharp blades, and way more than hacks — all of which will keep your garage bustling for a while.

Summit paradigm via Flickr/mtneer_man

This article was written by Erin Vaughan, a blogger, gardener, and aspiring homeowner. She currently lives in Austin, Texas where she writes full time for Modernize. Her goal: empowering homeowners with the skilful guidance and educational tools they need to take on big home projects with confidence.