Storing your gear in a small apartment

Alright everyone, I'm looking for ideas.

I'm moving in with my fiance and im looking for some cool ways to store your cams/draws and such.  Right now I've got various items hanging from a corkboard, but for some reason she just doesn't think that will look all that good...

I'm trying to find a way to keep hard goods organized (and maybe displayed?) without just stuffing it all in a sack under the bed.  

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Storage bin in a closet?

I have a “man cave” that consists of a poorly decorated and crowded bedroom with all of my various pieces of gear and shit. Probably not the best example since I am recommending you have a whole other room for your shit.

Alternatively, you could just through it all in a blacked out storage bin and sleep easy knowing that it is safe from the sun and chemicals, and it can easily be thrown into the trunk.

Locker wrote:

"I'm moving in with my fiance and im looking for some cool ways to store your cams/draws and such."

I've got a much better idea... 

How about you leave my shit alone?

Are you married

Edit: I realize now that I missed the joke here 

Brennan VanDyke wrote:

Are you married

Locker's not available but he appreciates the interest.

Uhoh, if your fiancée doesn’t think the gear display looks cool, your prospects for using that gear a lot are pretty slim. Might as well put it in bins under bed. /joke.

Now seriously, we have a dedicated closet in our laundry room. We built the room, so put some thought into it. The closet has a narrow vertical space on one side where we put our inflatable thermarests vertically. So they can be kept flat.

The rest of the closet is just deep shelves. Coolers and Rubbermaid camping bins go on the floor below the first shelf. Sleeping bags get stuffed loosely on the top shelf. My husband and I each get a shelf for backpacks and stuff.

We do also have another closet for less-frequently-used/seasonal stuff, like skis, racquets, etc. But climbing/camping stuff in the laundry room is right by the garage door, so packing/unpacking is quick. And I generally don’t bother to take the gear out of the pack to hang on pegs, because it is going back outside in a few days, tops. 

Remove interior doors and replace with portières of linked cams and carabiners.  

You best bet will be to sell your gear.

The good news is once you pass beyond two years of climbing OR time spent with your gf, you won’t need to display your gear anymore.

similar situation 40 years ago.   installed temporary floor-to-ceiling post in bedroom (4x4 post) pegs on all four faces of post for hanging slings, biners, harnesses, ice tools, packs, even boots with laces tied together.  worked so well we're still using the system many houses later

-Haireball

Tiny apartment, this is the place’s only closet (surely it is assumed to be for clothes storage, but we relegate the ‘normal clothes’ to bins under the bed and a wall hung bar in the bedroom). Left side is an organizer hanging from the closet door. Bottom bin is normally overflowing with boots/shoes but we had some out for a trip

Love less stuff more. 

I am currently in a furnished rental with exactly two spare closets. No concern whatsoever for climbing and the camping gear it goes with. I could triple my gear if I wanted to. Haven’t you ever played Tetris? Aside from running or yoga or something, ropes climbing is pretty minimal. For bouldering, an unfolded crash pad should fit under the bed.

Add a few Kayaks and bicycles and I dunno, a horse, then we’ll have something to discuss.

Your fiancé knows that only chuffers use pegboards and will silently judge you for displaying your gear. Get a few bins and a few burly stuffsacks, organize your gear with the sacks or by clipping it into bundles.

Rubbermaid bins in one of the closets. If you have an “office” or garage space, a pegboard or mounting system might work, but only ever seen guides put them to use as something other than a display.

Pegboard of quickdraws in the living room is like mounting your skis above the dining table. 

Mark Pilate wrote:

F-150 is the best storage solution.  It’s always ready to go.  Like having a 1000L alpine pack

I’m way too worried about getting my vehicle broken into to do this. 

I use a cheap armoire from ikea looks like it belongs in the room, and keeps the sun off my soft goods.

I have several ideas. Keep everything in bins under the bed but then:

Periodically put on a harness and your climbing shoes while wearing only thong undies. See where that leads.

Take out one piece of gear per night to fondle while watching TV.

Set up a display shelf with a doll or sculpture of your choice. Adorn them with your gear in rotation. Call it an art project.

Set up a yearlong Christmas tree in a corner. Hang gear as ornaments.

Buy one of those hollowed out books people use to store their bedside gun, but put some microcams in it instead. Pull it out periodically and pretend to read.  

I could go on but I trust you to run with this. 

Evan LovleyMeyers wrote:

I use a cheap armoire from ikea looks like it belongs in the room, and keeps the sun off my soft goods.

This is sort of my approach too. A lot of my gear is in an old dresser or an IKEA armoire/wardrobe closet which has a mix of shelves and drawers. Gear that is commonly used for a specific activity either goes into a bin for that activity and onto a shelf in the armoire or gets its own drawer. General purpose “essentials” or multi sport gear (sunglasses, hats, light gloves, headlamps, first aid kit, navigation aids etc.) is in drawers so everything is visible at a glance.

phylp phylp wrote:

I have several ideas. Keep everything in bins under the bed but then:

Periodically put on a harness and your climbing shoes while wearing only thong undies. See where that leads.

Take out one piece of gear per night to fondle while watching TV.

Set up a display shelf with a doll or sculpture of your choice. Adorn them with your gear in rotation. Call it an art project.

Set up a yearlong Christmas tree in a corner. Hang gear as ornaments.

Buy one of those hollowed out books people use to store their bedside gun, but put some microcams in it instead. Pull it out periodically and pretend to read.  

I could go on but I trust you to run with this. 

These are the best I've heard yet, sounds like you've got an eye for interior design