- Home Office
- Workshop
- Homelab
- Home Theater and Media Consumption location
- Dining Room
- 3d Printer Farm
- Guest Room
- Etc
That means that organization is a constant struggle, because I always have projects. I built an Ikea hacked 3d printing station, both it and my desk use a restaurant table as their tabletop. In the years I’ve lived here, I have reorganized and reorganized, dumped stuff, acquired new stuff and added complexity, simplified. It’s a struggle.
My most recent organizational attempt was to utilize the wall space. You can line the walls with shelves or bookcases, but again, space constraints…and I do have some of that. Most recently, I decided I wanted to add storage to the wall above my desk. The wall had very little on it. At the top was a photo ledge I have photos on, so this would be the space between the top of the monitor and the photo ledge I need to fill. The other issue is, having a hand crankable standing desk, which I should crank up more often, over the desk, at least, I can’t do shelves of any significant depth for large storage.
That made this a mostly unused space up until now. I could have added some photos, but how many photos can you put on your wall? This made me go with wallboard. And there were a lot of choices.
Pegboard
Wall Control is a traditional metal pegboard design and is fairly popular. It comes in a variety of colors. You can visit their store on Amazon here. I had decided I wanted white or black, because I felt anything else looked too much like a workshop you’d have in a garage. I’m not sure why round holes look worse to me than other choices. I wanted something that looked good in a combined living room setting.
You can also get plastic pegboard for less.
IKEA SKÅDIS
The next option is the SKÅDIS Series at IKEA.
As opposed to the traditional round pegholes, these are slits. The pegboards are made out of acrylic and fiberboard as opposed to metal.This is probably the cheapest material you can buy…but that’s Ikea for you. But not only do they offer this product at a reasonable rate, but they have a variety of accessories, and more importantly for someone with a 3d printer, there are hundreds of accessories you can print yourself. You can even print Skadis compatible boards in different sizes using a 3d printer.
Honeycomb Storage Wall(HSW)

The Honeycomb Storage Wall is one popular 3d printed solution, with a variety of accessories people have designed for it. It was created by user RostaP on Printables. Being honeycomb, it uses less filament to cover a space than trying to print Pegboard or a Skadis equivalent.
Multiboard
Multiboard is another 3d printed solution. Multiboard has some advantages over HSW.
- It can hold over 18x the weight
- It has pegboard holes for pegboard accessories as well
- Threads for a strong fit
- Multiple mounting options
Multiboard is free, but has a paid model, unlike HSW. The paid model gives you extra support and early access to the creator’s designs, which he ultimately releases for free later on.
Where I Ended Up
I ended up with the Skadis system to fill the wall space above my desk, and extending behind my television, which is not wall mounted. It now takes up an entire section of my wall, opposite my couch, my shelving, the table I eat at, and my couch.
Why Skadis?
I printed a piece of multiboard, and a piece of honeycomb storage wall, and I do have plans for some small installation of that in a different location. But there were several reasons. To cover the same volume of wall with the printer I have, I would have had to print a minimum of 30 panels, which would be days of printing, not to mention the cost of the filament. I had this up in a day, and I’ve spent days just printing accessories.
What Is Up on the Wall Space?
A section is storing canisters, a large portion is reserved for display space of items that would otherwise not be displayed, and that leaves room for some of the miscellaneous on my desk.
Conclusion
Organization is a constant challenge, because you are constantly changing, your things are changing, and having modular and adaptable storage methods is definitely a way to address that. Tomorrow, after spending a week printing accessories, I could teach down the entire setup down to the bare boards and rearrange it. I can try things. I can print different accessories. I can change course. The wall behind my TV is no longer a dead zone, it is now a storage space. And I have more dead zones I can fill. Behind the monitors, which are on desk mounts. Under the desk. and more.
And ultimately, the black panels fit into the room without making it look like a workshop.