How to Organize a Workshop

The first thing you should do when you begin to organize your workshop is to wipe your slate clean. Take everything out of the shop, then sort everything out into categories.

Make a pile for the old things you no longer need, like various odds and ends leftover from old projects that you have been holding onto just in case you ever needed them. If it has been longer than a year since you set those aside, now is the time to let them go. You should also include in this pile the empty cases you have lying around for tools; if you never put the tool in the case, there is no need for it.

You can get square storage cubes, which are usually intended for the floor and stack them to keep them open or mount them on the walls. The cubes pictured are from IKEA.

If your workshop has a lot of smaller things, like spray paint cans, mounting rain gutters on your wall is a unique way to store them. While these will not work for your larger items, it can give you some shelving for the smaller things in your shop.

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Every shop has tons of cords that need to be kept organized. There are a few ways you can go about making your cords more organized. One easy and cheap way is to coil up each cord and then put them in toilet paper tubes, then write the descriptions on the outside of the tube. Put them all in a box, and you will never have to fight through tangled cords or play the guessing game about what each cord belongs to again.