Having my first bona fide basement, I've been pretty excited to get around to creating a little workbench area, a place I can use to do little projects and organize my tools. Of course, that's easier said than done, and with my new job and with the bunches of visitors we've had over the past month or so, I never got around to making that happen. This past weekend, though, I guess Shannon finally got tired of hearing my whining; she dropped by Home Depot and got a length of pegboard (as well as a nice kit of pegboard hooks and tool holders), and that's really all it took to get me moving on the project.

Our basement walls are brick and mortar, so all I really had to do was mount two four-foot one-by-twos horizontally to hold the pegboard up, and I was good to go. Then, I just emptied my toolbox onto the workbench and figured out what was worth hanging -- and I gotta say that I'm pretty darned pleased with the result!

As in all things organizational, the key is less in how the board looks today as it is how it'll look in a few weeks' time; we'll see if I'm able to keep it neat, since my biggest frustration has been being able to find the tools I want to use at any given point in time. Likewise, getting everything up off my workbench is awesome, but I'll be happier still when I'm able to resist cluttering that surface up again (or, in what might be my favorite saying from my mother-in-law, "crapping it up with shit")!