Practical storage systems for your garage or workshop.
For many, a garage is not only a place to store a car, but also a real car, locksmith and carpentry workshop. Therefore, it is important that everything is always at hand and in the right place. But sometimes it is so difficult to understand the variety of screwdrivers, pliers, scissors, drills and other utensils that are stored in the "man's Eden". This roundup provides simple yet effective ideas to help you create near-perfect storage systems in your garage.
1. Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape for storing small metal parts.
Magnetic tape attached to your garage wall can be used to store drills, scissors, bolts, nuts, and other small metal parts. Such a magnetic holder is very convenient to use and will help prevent the loss of small but important parts.
2. Plastic containers
Rack made of plastic containers.
Large plastic containers and blocks of wood can be used to build a large storage rack for tools, wires, spare parts, and any other items. The organization of such a rack will allow you to put things in order and significantly save space in the workshop or garage.
3. Roof rails
Rails for trash bags and paper towels.
On one of the free walls of the garage, you can place several small rails, on which it will be convenient to place rolls of garbage bags, paper towels, sandpaper, scotch tape, rolls of rope and much more.
4. Brackets for furniture
Furniture storage brackets.
Many summer residents use a garage to store folding outdoor furniture. So that it does not stand in the corners and does not take up much space, make a vertical rack for it with wooden or metal brackets and screw it to one of the free walls.
5. Jars
Storage of nails, bolts, screws and other little things.
Bolts, nuts, nails, screws, screws and other little things do not take up much space, but it is extremely inconvenient to store them in a mixed form. Jars with lids screwed to the bottom of a wall cabinet or under the table top will help to clean up these things.
6. Grille under the ceiling
Storage grate for pipes and skirting boards.
A plastic grate screwed into the corner of the garage under the ceiling is ideal for storing leftover water pipes, baseboards, profiles and other long items. Such a storage system will significantly save space in the garage and prevent possible breakdowns of fragile building materials.
7. Organizer for screwdrivers
Wooden organizer for screwdrivers.
A small practical organizer for screwdrivers that any man can make by simply drilling the required number of small holes in a block of wood. Such a product can be hung on one of the walls of a garage or workshop to keep all the screwdrivers in one place.
8. Vertical storage systems
Vertical panels for storing things.
Several perforated metal or plywood panels under a table or in a cabinet provide an ergonomic and convenient vertical storage space for small hand tools.
9. Plastic pipes
Storage systems made of PVC pipes.
The remains of PVC pipes of different diameters can be used to create a wide variety of storage systems. For example, pieces of wide pipes screwed to the bottom of the cabinet are suitable for storing a screwdriver, drill, and other tools of this type. Pieces of medium-diameter PVC pipes can be used to make cells for storing various sprays, polyurethane foam, paint tubes and other containers.
10. Brushes
Hanging storage of brushes.
It is very convenient to store paint brushes and spatulas hanging on a thin wire or on a thin steel rod.
11. Rack for garden tools
Wooden stand for garden tools.
To prevent gardening tools from taking up a good third of the garage space, store them on a special rack bolted to one of the walls. Such a rack can be made with your own hands from blocks of wood, a wooden pallet or pieces of plastic pipes.
12. Multifunctional rack
Rack from a pallet with shelves.
A wooden pallet, complemented by shelves made of pieces of wooden slats, will become a functional component of the garage and will help to place a huge amount of hand tools and small ones in one place.
13. Rod holder
Storage of fishing rods.
A regular wire mesh can be used to create a handy rod holder. This storage system can be fixed to the ceiling so that it does not take up space below and does not get underfoot in the autumn-winter season.
14. Pegboard
A garage space is often combined with a workshop. The system for storing tools in the garage should be thoughtful... Ready-made constructions GOSNITI are considered optimal.
The DIYer who wants to save money will need materials at hand... Complex mechanisms equipped with movable elements, it is forbidden easy to store.
To make the correct placement of the tool in the garage and put things in order, there are the following options organizing storage:
- on shelves;
- on shelves;
- in closets;
- at the stands;
- on the shields.
There are shelves of various modifications:
- hinged;
- closed;
- stationary;
- mobile.
Various materials are used for their manufacture, such as metal or wood... Small parts require hinged shelves... They are usually placed at the level of the garage owner's chin. If the inventory has often use, for him are better suited open structures, and in closed ones they store unnecessary things.
See how you can make an interesting DIY garage tool storage option:
Direct competitors of mobile shelves are movable boxes... The device has specialized containers for the tool.
Factory garage tool racks are made in accordance with GOST... These ergonomic designs are easy to DIY. To store large units or tires, you will need large shelving.
If you want to make a tool cabinet in the garage with your own hands, then there should be special drawers or bags... This storage allows to avoid dust ingress. You can also rationally use side walls... With the help of special tool holders in the garage, a place is equipped for fixing the planer... On the doors you can place holders made of pieces of rubber hose.
A skilled craftsman will make a stand for a tool in the garage with his own hands. The material for its manufacture is chipboard sheet... Additionally, as tool holders are used metal cans from canned food.
How to store tools in the garage?
A convenient storage place is considered shield, or storage panel, or simply garage tool board... Screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers are fixed on them. To make a shield for a tool in the garage with your own hands, use an array of boards and strong hooks. The complete set depends on the master's own preferences.
How to place the tool in the garage on the wall - photo:
As you can see in the photo, storing a tool in the garage with your own hands is not at all difficult to organize. All you need is desire and a little patience.
Keeping keys with tools on the garage wall
How do I mount a tool on a garage wall? The optimal storage system for tools in the garage involves the use of the entire area of the wall.
- After installing the horizontal guides, they are suspended shelf sections... Little things like nails and self-tapping screws can be put in plastic jars that contain mayonnaise or horseradish. Their lids are screwed to the shelves.
- Can be made for nuts, washers, scissors and for keys stand in the garage with your own hands. Special hinges make wire... Washers with nuts are strung on the split ends, and the dimensions of the fittings are indicated on cardboard tags. Scissors with keys are hung on metal hooks.
- For drills, cutters and storage of keys in the garage, attach to the wall foam pad... They are firmly fixed in the elastic material and can be easily removed from it if necessary.
- Another mounting method for garage tools is disposable plastic plates. If you cut them into two equal parts, you get blanks... Then they are attached to the wall with self-tapping screws. The resulting pockets are used to store circular saws or grinding wheels.
- For storage of clamps, it is recommended to use rectangular plywood box... It is attached to the wall and then the handles of the clamps are placed in it.
- Sturdy wall mounts are designed to store bicycles... Their base must be metal.
- In order not to lose a screwdriver of the right size, they use magnetic holder... Then they are always in sight.
- From hooks with paper clips, the craftsman will quickly make device for canvases designed for tape slabs.
Convenient panel for storing tools in the garage, which does not take up much space: 
Hello to all homemade lovers!
As you know, we all almost constantly have to use open-end wrenches. Literally every day, it is necessary to tighten or unscrew some nut, on some device, both at home and in the garage or in the workshop.
Naturally, it is highly desirable to have a complete set of wrenches, well, or at least a good set of wrenches for the most common nut sizes.
I also have a similar set of keys, bought a few years ago. Moreover, these keys are rather compactly inserted into a plastic holder, which, moreover, can be hung on the wall.
I used to have this set on my wall in my workshop. However, practice has shown that with such a placement and on such a holder, these keys are not very convenient to use.
Firstly, with this arrangement, the sizes of the keys are not visible. And since they are assembled rather compactly, you often have to make mistakes in choosing a key of the right size.
Secondly, the plastic holder shown in the photo turned out to be very unreliable, since after a year of use it began to gradually deteriorate.
As a result, I decided to make a homemade holder for this set of keys, on which it would be convenient to hang or remove them, and also the sizes of all keys would be clearly visible.
In order to make such a holder, I needed the following accessories:
Materials and fasteners:
A piece of board 2 cm thick, 12 cm wide, and 95 cm long;
Magnetic knife holder;
Two wood screws 4x25 mm;
Two wood screws 4x40 mm;
Screws with a press washer 4x20 mm;
5 mm cambric, or similar plastic tubes;
The set of wrenches itself, plus an adjustable wrench.
Tools:
Drawing and measuring tools (pencil, tape measure and square);
Jigsaw with a file for a figured cut;
Electric drill-screwdriver;
Manual plane;
Drill for metal with a diameter of 2.5 mm;
Drill for metal with a diameter of 4 mm;
Spherical milling cutter for wood;
Screwdriver bit PH2, for screwing;
Sandpaper.
Manufacturing process
To begin with, we remove the chamfers with a plane on the front edges of the blank board, and it is even better to round them a little.
Then we mark the board, which will serve as a holder, and drill holes with a diameter of 4 mm at its ends, for screws, with which we will fix the holder to the wall.
We countersink these holes for the screw heads with a spherical cutter for wood.
Now we saw off the ends at the holder board with a jigsaw.
Then we sandpaper and screw the magnetic knife holder to the left side of the board-holder.
For this purpose, I took an old short knife holder that was hanging in our kitchen. But now a new holder has been hung in the kitchen, and this one is just suitable for hanging the four smallest keys.
Immediately behind the magnetic holder, we prick with an awl and drill two blind holes with a 2.5 mm drill.
We drill these holes to a depth of about 10 mm.
The distance between these holes should be equal to the width of the handle of the key that we will hang in this place, plus about 10-14 mm, for large keys (from 20 mm or more), or 7-10 mm, for small keys (less than 20 mm.).
Then we cut off two identical pieces of cambric or plastic tubing, about 6-10 mm long, again the length of these pieces depends on the size, and, in particular, on the thickness of the particular key.
By the way, if you don't have a suitable cambric at hand, or it's just a pity to use it for such purposes, then you can simply use such plastic tubes from bottles of liquid soap.
I just used them. These tubes are well suited to the diameter of the press washer screws.
Cut off pieces of the tube, put on the screws with a press washer.
And we screw these screws into the drilled holes.
And now we have a holder for the largest key ready.
We do the same for all other keys (remembering to measure the width of the handle of each key and choose the distance between the screws according to it), including the adjustable wrench.
And now our holder is almost ready!
And then I decided, for greater clarity and ease of use, to make inscriptions on the holder with the dimensions of each key.
To do this, I printed on the computer, these are the labels.
Then I cut them out and taped them to the top of the holder board.
The only thing I didn’t do was make stickers for the three smallest keys on a magnetic holder, because this is both inconvenient and unnecessary, since these keys are the most frequently used ones, and they are very simply different.
And now our holder is finally ready!
Now it remains only to fasten it with screws to the wall, to a permanent place.
And hang up all the keys.
And now our holder is complete with keys!
Here is its general view.
And this is a fragment.
As you can see, all the keys hang quite securely, and it is also easy to remove them, you just need to take the desired key with your hand, slightly lift it up and turn it a little. In this case, the key is immediately in the hand in the working position.
In addition, it turned out that such a screw holder has another advantage. In the event that the key hangs tight enough, or vice versa, it dangles, you can adjust this by simply tightening the screws that support it and thus achieve the most optimal option.
In general, in my opinion, it turned out to be a rather convenient and functional holder. Therefore, I can advise everyone who needs to make a holder for open-end wrenches to use a similar design.
Well, that's all for me!
Goodbye to everyone, useful homemade products and good luck in homemade creativity!
Good day, brains! A workshop, when it’s a mess, it’s not a workshop at all. And this article is devoted to the topic of "organizing" the tool, in which I have collected 9 not quite ordinary ways to store an improvised tool for your brain workshop... I guarantee they will fit any instrument that has ever existed on planet Earth!
In the fall of 2015, I created The Ultimate Magnetic Pegboard, but time passed and I had even more tools, which meant that I needed another homemade for the orderly storage of this very tool. In this brain leadership I will tell you about some of the attachments that I have equipped the new tool board with.
So let's go!
Step 1: Is a kitchen towel dispenser not a clip holder?
My grandma gave me a paper towel dispenser and I decided to use it. The shaft of this dispenser was plastic and did not support the weight of the clips, so I replaced it with a metal guide from the old one. brain printer, which I cut to the length I need * and glued to it with the help of epoxy on the sides of the mount.
When mounting this resulting clamp bar to the board, I used small wooden spacers to create more space and make it easier to remove / engage these clamps. Note that the clamps are quite heavy, so the more screws you use to attach the bar, the more reliable it will be.
To be honest, this method of storing the clamps is much simpler than all other clamping bars.
* I cut the guide almost half as long as I needed, so that there was room for others brain clamps which I plan to purchase soon.
My kitchen towel dispenser bar fits:
- 3 x 15cm clips
- 10cm-I clamp
- 5cm-I clamp.
And there is still room for many others to come soon!
Step 2: And what about the clamps-tie are not holders?
Cable ties have a wide range of uses, so why not use them as holders? In the storage board, I drilled a couple of holes, put a clamp through them (the size of which depends on the size of the tool that is planned to be placed in it), tightened it on the back of the board and inserted the tool. It's that simple!
So brains you can store a soldering iron, a drill and much more! If you plan to place a heavier tool like this (for example, a drill), then it will be more expedient to use a metal clamp.
With the help of "clamp holders" I have stored:
- large metal tweezers (because it does not "stick" to the magnet)
- small plastic tweezers.
Step 3: What about the radiator?
This idea came to me in November 2015 and I implemented it to accommodate my plastic tweezers by attaching this holder directly to the wall above the Magnetic Board. I attached the heatsink with double-sided tape so that its fins were vertical and I hung tweezers on top of them, with some of the fins acting as spacers!
I "got" this radiator from my game console, about which there is even a whole brain leadership.
My "radiator" holder contains:
- 5 different plastic ESD tweezers.
Step 4: use magnets!
I suppose you've seen my Ultimate Magnetic Pegboard before, if not, I suggest you check it out!
And in my new board for storing the instrument, I also used magnets "mined" from the speakers, which I glued to it with hot glue. This type of holders is quite easy to make, you just need to understand in what place brainstocks each tool will be placed.
My "magnetic" holders store:
- large roughing plane
- small roughing plane
- large needle nose pliers
- wire cutters
- flat needle nose pliers
- curved needle nose pliers
- regular needle nose pliers
- carpentry punch.
Step 5: don't forget about screw-in straight hooks
Of the screw-in hooks, I prefer those bent at a right angle, they better hold a massive tool, for example, the large rasp with a massive handle shown in the photo, but even its size does not help the rounded hooks to hold the rasp.
But with the help of straight hooks, your instrument is very easy to store, try this brainworm and find out what it is about!
This is not visible in the photo, but I also screwed in the hooks from below, as "locks" to prevent the saw from falling out, no matter what.
My hook holders store:
- brushes (no, I do not paint, they serve me for another)
- large rasp
- large file
- hacksaw
- and my microscope- homemade .
Step 6: and the foam comes in handy
Believe it or not, I used Styrofoam to store the drills. It is very soft, lightweight and easy to cut, which makes it perfect for storing small tools such as drills, files, small screwdrivers, pencils, etc.!
About how I built the foam drill holder I created a separate brain leadership.
A similar storage device can also be made of wood, while the foam will serve as a good material for such a prototype. crafts.
Step 7: And of course small shelves!
The device called "French plank" is certainly "cool", but unfortunately, I have no way to do this.
Therefore, I decided to attach the board to the storage board at a 90 degree angle using small corners.
My "mini-shelf" contains:
- my homemade magnetic silicone vise pads (because I decided not to use them on the vise anymore)
- two different whetstones
- nail clippers (although it may be better to use metal scissors for this purpose)
- credit card sized multitool
- flashlight in the form of a phone.
Step 8: Even a toilet paper roll has a use!
I have to admit, the idea is really strange ...
I cut a hole in the paper roll sleeve, then cut it in half and attached it to the board.
I now use this device only for storing my mallet- homemade, it weighs little and the "paper" holder only slightly bends. Obviously, this method will not work for a heavier instrument ...
Step 9: Another "mini-shelf", but with holes
To create this brain-holder I was inspired by one recently.
In many cases, the garage serves universal workshop... Tools for all occasions are stored here: both for car repairs and for repairing home furniture.
This function is significantly expanded if the garage is built in a country house or in the country. Here the owner simply has to be of all trades master- lay electrical wiring to the gazebo, sharpen a knife and an ax, repair a lawn mower, fill and lubricate a snow blower, plow a new wooden beam for a leaky support for grapes ...
All these troublesome jobs require various instruments and devices that you probably have for a long time.
But how can they be conveniently and efficiently placed?
Zoning garage space
First of all, we will go into the garage with a tape measure, a pencil, a notebook and a strong desire to finally get rid of the rubbish that it was a pity to throw away for years - what if it ever comes in handy?
The design fundamentals of such industrial and warehouse utility rooms presuppose their clear functional zoning.
But in the meantime, you have long, without knowing it, distributed the garage into functional areas.
In one, at the entrance, something is kept at hand. daily, and gathering dust in the far corner rarely demanded... Small tools are mixed together in a small box, heavy hammers and sledgehammers rusting under the wall on the floor. Somewhere in a bunch there are containers with antifreeze and transmission oil.
We will apply this intuitively correct distribution when designing ordered arrangement of tools.
First, let's estimate and draw
We define the wall, along which we will build racks and shelves for tools. The data on its height and width entered in the notebook will become Starting point for drawing future storage structures.
Having made a decision on the location of the instruments, we divide, in turn, "Instrumental" zone on clear structures where the tools, fixtures and fasteners will be located:
- for the car (locksmith);
- for electrical work;
- for welding works;
- for carpentry work.
DIY tool shelves in the garage: materials and design
Tool rack design and material, from which it will be made, will determine the size of the free space in which it will be "inscribed", as well as your technical imagination and acquired or completely absent skills of such works.
In any case, it is reasonable to precede your own project by visiting the Internet sites of garage self-builders, where successful projects of garage interiors that have already been implemented are on public display.
But the main factor of choice is your budget, i.e. the amount you are willing to spend in the name of garage comfort.
DIY tool shelves in the garage - photo: 
Convenient and simple shelving
The offered rack for tools is only a concept, a sketch of one of the possible designs, so there is no point in specifying the exact dimensions. With the numbers of sizes you will fill your individual project.
Based on considerations of strength and durability, we will make a solid shelving unit with uneven-height shelves from a 50x50 mm steel corner along the garage wall. We will make shelves from edged boards 4-5 cm thick.
We will need a grinder with discs for cutting metal, a welding machine, a couple of packs of electrodes, an electric drill, a carpenter's corner, a water level, a joiner's hacksaw, a tape measure, and a marker.
The number of supporting racks depends on the length of the rack. The step between them (respectively - the length of the shelves) is determined in 1 m.
Important: We lay the width (depth) of the shelves in such a way that they do not interfere with opening the doors of a car that has driven into the garage. If this condition is met, a convenient shelf width will be 40-50 cm.
We mark the corner, cut and weld the rectangular perimeter of the rack from it. According to the drawing, we mark, cut and weld the transverse corners into the perimeter, on which there will be lean wooden shelves... We design them of different heights, based on the dimensions of the tools planned for placement.
Do not forget about the special low section for boxes with fasteners.
Place the first shelf at a height 60-80 cm from floor level garage. In this lower space we will place fuel canisters, bulky and heavy objects, spare units.
Racks weld on to the reinforcement rods driven into the wall. Along the top and in the middle, we weld the racks of the rack with a horizontal crosspiece from a corner or a steel strip.
Now it's time to grab a hacksaw and cut the boards to size. Before installing board shelves soak with hot linseed oil, in a day we paint.
We hang everything that can be hung
Box spanner sets can be conveniently, clearly and beautifully hung in ascending order on brightly colored boards attached to the wall in the back of the shelves. Above each key can be glued paper sticker with size, large printed on a printer, or write the numbers by hand with an indelible marker directly on the board.
Making the most of vertical surfaces, in the same way we will hang hammers, pliers and other tools with a suitable configuration for such placement on the side walls of the rack.
Watch an interesting video on how to make a key shelf in the garage with your own hands:
Conclusion
Many motorists have had garages for a long time. well equipped, the instruments are placed rationally and conveniently - so that they can be taken from their usual place with closed eyes.
Please, tell us about your comfortable garage, share your experience with novice colleagues on this truly masculine hobby.