Garage Tools and Pegboard

There is an order to this: nails, screws and fasteners first then drills, bits, screwdrivers.  Sockets, wrenches and pliers next. Hammers, chisels and measuring tools, stud finder and safety googles.  Somehow the order made a bit of sense to me—it kind of has a logical flow.

This is a temporary wall in front of the water heater.  Saws, clamps and grinder blades.  Only because they wouldn't fit  on the same wall as all the other tools.

The garage is not ever a finished organized space, it is always evolving to what fits current projects.
Right now our garage tools look like this, but every time I re-do the organizing it gets a little better.
I recommend a workbench built to the height that fits you standing to work but with a padded stool for those long projects. Regarding tools, I like to see everything at once to find what I am looking for so I spend less time trying to remember where I put things. Everything fits between the wall and the garage door opening so we can still park a car.

Tools where I can see them, on pegboard with labels.

Some crafts don't belong in the house.  Stained glass is one of them because of the lead solder.

I put the stained glass work area on the other wall of the garage so pounding on the main workbench wouldn't break the glass being stored above.  Glass is really heavy and the shelf I built is hanging off studs in the wall, with partitions divided by color.  I maybe should have built the storage on the floor but I really wanted it at eye level so I made the workbench underneath desk height instead of standing height.  Not sure yet if that is going to be a good thing….

Organizing my crafty office

Sometimes things come together nicely after a time of indecision.  I had a breadbox that I really liked the look of that worked well in our old house but not so much here in our current house.  I held onto it for a while waiting for an idea to strike and it finally did.  I needed a place to store cables, flash drives, cameras and chargers and stuff like that so I put them in the breadbox and put the seldom used but necessary PC monitor on top.  I prefer a Mac computer but some programs only run on a PC such as the embroidery software.  So the fact that the monitor is a little high for ergonomics really isn't a problem. And no, I do not want to turn my Mac into a PC with a go-between program.

Breadbox Storage