Workshop Storage Tips

7 inventive ways to organize your work space

Adjustable drawer dividers

You can restore order to messy shop drawers with 1/4-in. plywood partitions and self-stick weather stripping ($3 a roll at home centers). For the strongest grip, use spongy “closed cell” weather stripping.

Apply weather stripping to two sides of the drawers as shown, then cut the partitions long enough so they squish firmly into the rubber on both ends. A good rule of thumb is to make the partitions 1/4 in. longer than the inside measurement between the pieces of weather stripping.

PVC pipe clamp rack

Are your pipe clamps missing in action right when you need them? Build this snap-in, snap-out storage rack from PVC pipe. For 1/2-in.-diameter iron pipe, use 3/4-in. PVC, and for 3/4-in.-diameter pipe, use 1-in. PVC.