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My garage is like many other homeowner's garages. It's messy. Many garage tinkerers leave their tools and projects laying around. As a handyman though, I take my tools with me. But that brings up a good point of what an average homeowner can do to organize his tools. Short of an expensive multi-leveled toolbox, you can always hang your tools on the wall.
This is done with pegboard and can be made on the cheap depending on if you want it to be a few square feet, or if you want it to cover the entire wall. You can make it as large as you want.
The thing to remember is that you will need a small space behind the pegboard so that when you insert the pegs and hangars they have somewhere to go, rather than hitting the wall. To accomplish this you can build a frame around the perimeter of the pegboard using 1"x 2" furring strips. Basically build a frame and secure the pegboard to this frame so that the frame acts as a spacer for the pegboard. If you are planning on a using a large sheet of pegboard, you will need to use the furring strips about every 18" to stabilize the pegboard and make it more rigid, plus they will give you more points to secure it to the wall.
When you've got the pegboard and frame ready, screw it into the wall studs through the pegboard and furring strips and start hanging your tools.
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