Pegboards for Every Room

These sturdy, versatile organizers can bring style and order to your house.

Using Pegboards to Organize a Home Office

The Strategies

• Put frequently used items toward the bottom, saving the upper reaches for fixtures, like a clock.
• If a constantly disappearing stapler or ruler is the bane of your home-office existence, tie a colorful piece of ribbon to it, designate a hook, and let it dangle.
• With a metal pegboard, add magnetic accessories to tack up reminders for meetings or to hold paper clips (or jelly beans, for a p.m. sugar rush).
• To control a jumble of wires, consider installing an extra pegboard behind your desk, almost to the floor. Anchor the cords with a row of hooks.

The Gear

• Wall Control EZ Wall Organizer Panels (16 by 32 inches), $45 for a pack of 2 panels.
  To buy:  wallcontrol.com.
• Shelf Assembly, $12.50 (16 by 4 inches) or $21 (16 by 9 inches).
  To buy:  wallcontrol.com.
• Lipper International See & Store Canister (for paper clips), $10 for a set of 5.
  To buy: target.com.