My biggest mess in my office right now is gift wrap.  I moved a year ago, but never unpacked that box. Since Christmas the box has been broken on two sides and the contents strewn around my office. If I showed you a picture you might lose all respect for me.  So here’s one that is inspiring me.

I’ve been researching the best options for me in this home.  At my old home, we had an unfinished storage room in the basement.  Darren hung pegboard over the deep freeze and I used inexpensive peg hooks to organize all my stuff.  It was lovely.  I used my deep freeze for a work table and all my supplies were at easy reach. I had a Rubbermaid tub (not see through) that I stored my purchased gifts in on the shelves nearby.  So handy.

In this house, my office is where I like to do all the gift storing and wrapping for now, but I have no wall space.  The ceiling is A-line and it angles down to 2 feet up from the floor on two sides.  I’ve covered the two triangle shaped walls with shelving and desks. I put a couch on one side of the room and shoved all my ugly stuff behind it.  Only, there’s more ugly stuff than couch, so it peeks out.    There is a small closet in the front of the room that holds the furnace for the top two floors of the house.  I’m tempted to hang pegboard in there to store all my wrapping stuff. It’s not very big in there and I’d actually have to do the wrapping somewhere else.  That’s a mess waiting to happen now that I think about it.

My other choice is to set up in the storage area in the basement.  It’s already lined with pegboard! I haven’t decided what I want to store in that room yet.  My freeze dried food, home canning supplies, and Christmas stuff is in there now.  Decisions, decisions! There would be room down there for gift storage and a work table too.  Then the stuff behind my couch might start to disappear….

I have my Amazon shopping cart full of adorable pegboard wire baskets that would have me in good shape right away.  They are super affordable too.

So what about you?  How do you organize your gift wrap?  What would you do in my shoes?

Update:  I did the pegboard in the storage room in my basement and I love it!  When we finish the basement, it might get turned into a pool table room.  Then I’ll have to figure something else out.