Show me your storage rack

When I moved into my current apartment a few months ago, there was this big office storage piece of furniture dominating the living room. Thought I'd get rid of it. Then I remembered how much stuff I need to stow away.

The thing is 7' tall and has literally zero horizontal shelves (or even fittings for shelf mounts), so I don't understand what it was for if not corpses. I built removable plywood/pine shelves and now, in columns left to right, it stores:

• Boxes (including the 'every type of cable known to man' box), toolbox, camping ktichen, bike work stand and maintenance equipment
• More tools, camping gear, sport rope (in a bag ready to go), boots/shoes, half ropes , retired rope and climbing shoes
• 95L Gregory bag for flying with the rack, rope, and camping gear, 42L Gregory pack with my entire rack, shoes, and harness. Various sprays because Ontario.

A standard wire shelving unit does a good job. Holds all of my gear pretty well.
triple rack, wall gear, ice gear, ski gear, 3 ropes, lots o shoes, and room for camping gear which is still in the car.

We have an overhead storage system in our garage that is a heavy duty rack on a cable pulley system (use a drill attachment to raise/lower quickly). The rack itself is a lattice structure that works great to attach everything with carabiners. Tubs with ropes, packs, extra gear, etc sit on top.

I really don't understand you people...HOW do you have time to constantly rack and re-rack your gear on walls and in tubs??

Just leave it in a pack and go! (While keeping your pack well-organized.)

-Mac

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This is in my living room. We have a 770 sqft apartment so the line between storage and "wall art" is blurred a bit. The other 50% of our gear is crammed into a storage closet.