Anyone who starts buying cordless tools soon has a problem; where to put all those tools? It seems like they typically end up stuck in the garage in various places, most of which aren’t convenient to access and don’t make it convenient to charge the batteries.
For the power tools that matter, the power tools, drawers, and chargers are either someplace else entirely or put away in a cabinet somewhere where they can’t keep the batteries charged.
Ideally, you need a place to keep all these different power tools and accessories together, along with their chargers, where you can easily access them, and the power tools, accessories, and chargers can stay plugged in. Cordless power tools organized power tool storage is an ideal option for solutions to this. Maybe that sounds a bit much, but I think it’s possible. Not just likely, but not all that hard to do.
Let’s assume we will make this storage pegboard tool rack out of scrap ¾” plywood, with a piece of ¼” scrap for the backboard to keep the cost and materials used down.
This is important, as the backboard keeps everything square while also providing additional support to attach hooks to the hanger board at the bottom of the garage storage pegboard, the tool cabinet tool organizers, and the drawer on the shelf of the bottom storage pegboard of the storage pegboard tool rack unit.
I don’t know about you, but I always seem to have leftover pieces of plywood sitting around my garage, workshop, garage, and shop. Building walls with this sort of pegboard thing is an ideal way of using those scraps and getting another project done without any out-of-pocket cost.
I like using these scraps for a wall for my bathroom projects. As for the price, I don’t have to explain the project details, the price, and the expense to my wife. Besides the price, once the work surface of the plywood wall is puttied, sanded, and painted, it will look just fine.
Of course, you can make your tool organizer and holder drawer, tool top, shelf, and tool storage ideas look just about any way you want; you don’t have to follow my plans. Instead, use them as a basis and modify them to fit your needs.
Just one thing, though, always make your cordless tool drawer and tool holder drawer, tool top, shelf, and tool storage ideas more significant than you need to store them so that there is room for more tools.
DIY Drill Holder Plans
While this first garage storage station, cordless drill and tool storage idea for the station, is a shelf unit, the key to this garage tool storage idea for the station, for design is that we’re going to make bags and hang the drills and drivers on the wall, rather than trying to store them laying down in bags or standing on shelves. While most cordless drills and drivers will stand on their battery, it’s not all that stable.
So by using bags and hanging them on the wall, we give them the convenience of a stable way of being stored while also being ready to grab at a moment’s notice.
The Hanger Board
I’ve decided to use a heavy-duty garage storage rack, cordless drill, and hanger board out of ¾” thick plywood. The dimensions in the drawing below will allow this piece to hold the weight of a heavy-duty storage rack and the power strip and drill from just about any cordless drill or impact driver, except for the largest units.
Make it out of ¾” plywood, with the backing board firmly attached to the garage wall to provide extra support. This should hold the heavy-duty and cordless drill storage rack and weight quickly, even with the batteries.
Hanger board for cordless tool storage
This part has been dimensioned from my more extensive power tools here. Before cutting it, I recommend checking the handles’ width on your cordless drills and drivers. Those smaller power tools I’ve seen are all a touch less than 1.5″ wide, but you might have something that’s a touch wider.
The part can be made longer or shorter to provide more workbench and other power tool storage, rack more power tool holder storage, or less power tool storage and holder storage. But whatever you do, make sure that you leave some extra workbench and power tool storage ideas in the top space, just in case you buy additional power tools sometime in the future.
While cutting this drill part out with a drill and jigsaw is possible, I’d recommend cutting the exercise out radius at the end of each drill slot with a hole saw.
Once that drill part is done, you can cut from the drill-out edge to the drill-out wall and complete the drill hole with the drill and jigsaw tool. Then, all you’ll need is a little filing, where the drill cuts meet the wall, to smooth it out.
I’d also recommend cutting a slight radius or chamfer in these slots with a router to help prevent splintering and chipping. It doesn’t take much space, just about 1/8″ of relief space on the edge.
The Cabinet
With the screws and hanger board out of sight, building the power tool storage bag holder and cabinet is extremely simple. I’ve made the whole power tool storage and bag holder storage cabinet 12″ deep, which is deep enough to handle any cordless power tools I have.
However, it might not be deep enough to handle some more extensive tools. I’d keep those tools in their cases, but if you want to store them in this unit, you might need to make the drawers in the power tool storage and unit a touch deeper.
The other advantage of going with a 12″ dimension metal wall is that you can get four strips of walls out of the space of a standard sheet of plywood wall. (actually, you’ve got to drill them to make them 11 7/8″ deep, but that’s close enough for government work.
I’ve designed this with two shelves for non-hanging tools, like sanders and trim saws. But one of the nice things about this design is that you can easily modify it to meet your tool storage ideas, different tools, drawers, tool storage, smaller tools, ideas, and organization needs.
That means you can add or remove shelves or create them to fit your workspace and accommodate your tool storage ideas and collection. You can also change the spacing of the shelves to match your particular workspace and your tools, drawers, tool storage ideas, and organization needs. Also, make it wider or narrower, as your space allows, to meet your requirements.
Finishing
Although I tend to keep the doors to my tool storage cabinets, dividers, and storage simple, bare wood.
I would recommend filling the edges of the doors with plywood, especially where you made the cutouts in the hanger board, and then painting the whole tool storage cabinet and storage unit.
This will help prevent splintering and keep your tool storage cabinets, whole tool storage cabinet, and storage shelf or unit in good shape to last longer.
Ideas to Make the Storage Center Better
This basic design saves space for many modifications if you so desire. A lot depends on your workbench’s personal needs. I’ve already talked about changing the size of the tool holder based on how many cordless tools you have and what types of devices they are.
But you can go far beyond this, adding tons of hooks, other tools, additional tools, tool racks, themes, and storage solutions for your devices and the accessories and tools you need.
Tools such as:
- Adding drawers for holding small items like drill bits and jigsaw blades
- Adding holders on the side for adhesive-backed sandpaper. If it comes in rolls, all you would need is dowel rods sticking out of the sides for the rolls to slip onto
- Installing a bar with a lock to keep children and others from getting into your tools
- Mounting the storage unit to the side of a roll-around tool chest so that you can take it with you to wherever you are going to be working
- Add additional shelves for commonly used hardware
- Put a cabinet door on the front to make it more attractive and secure
- You are only limited by how much time, power tools, power tool storage, tools, workshop space, and energy you want to put into the unit or workshop you create. But you can always add more power tools and strip storage, tools, and workshop space there later if you decide to.