12 Genius Ways to Use Pegboard Outside the Garage

Pegboard has a reputation for living in cold garages with rusty tools, but it’s way more useful than that. It’s cheap, easy to hang, and flexible enough to change as your life does. Once you stop thinking of it as “shop-only,” it suddenly becomes one of the most practical organizers in the house.

1. Entryway catchall for bags, keys, and hats

Instead of a cluttered console table, hang a pegboard by the door. Add hooks for keys, bags, and hats, plus a small shelf for wallets and sunglasses. You can rearrange it as seasons change, which is a lot easier than ripping out furniture when you realize backpacks now live here too.

2. Command center for kids’ school stuff

Use pegboard near the kitchen or mudroom to create a little school zone. Clipboards for each kid, hooks for backpacks and lunchboxes, and a spot for weekly schedules. It keeps paper from flooding your counters and gives everyone a clear place to dump their stuff when they come in.

3. Laundry room space-saver

In a small laundry room, pegboard makes the walls actually work. Hang baskets for stain removers and dryer sheets, hooks for lint rollers, and clips for lost socks. You can also hang a foldable drying rack from it, so you’re not tripping over freestanding ones in the hallway.

4. Craft or hobby wall that can grow with you

If you’ve got a crafter in the house (or a kid who loves art), pegboard is perfect. Jars for markers, hooks for scissors and tape, small shelves for paints and glue. When interests shift—from painting to sewing to model kits—you move the pieces around instead of buying a whole new setup.

5. Kitchen wall for tools you actually use

A pegboard near the stove or prep area can hold your most-used tools: spatulas, ladles, whisks, measuring cups. It beats rummaging through a packed drawer every night. Keep only the workhorses on display; the once-a-year gadgets can stay in the cabinet.

6. Coffee station organizer

If you have a little coffee corner, pegboard behind it keeps everything in reach. Hooks for mugs, a small shelf for syrups, and buckets for pods or filters make the station feel pulled together. Plus, it frees up counter space for the machine instead of decorating with clutter.

7. Bathroom “vertical vanity”

Tiny bathroom and no storage? Pegboard on a blank wall can hold baskets for hair products, hooks for brushes, and a small mirror. It pulls everything up off the counter, so you’re not constantly knocking products into the sink and fishing them back out.

8. Closet helper for accessories

Inside a closet, pegboard is an easy way to store belts, hats, scarves, and jewelry. It keeps everything visible so you actually wear what you own. You can even hang small shelves for folded items like clutches or small bags that usually get buried.

9. Cleaning closet organizer

Instead of stuffing all your cleaning bottles in a low cabinet, mount pegboard inside a closet. Hooks for dusters and small brooms, baskets for sprays and sponges, clips for microfiber cloths. When everything’s vertical, you stop rebuying things you already have but couldn’t find.

10. Kids’ room “toy parking”

Pegboard above a toy shelf can hold smaller things that always go missing—costume jewelry, toy tools, small bags, dress-up accessories. It turns one wall into a parking lot for all the little extras that usually end up under the bed.

11. Porch or patio plant wall

On a covered porch, pegboard can hold small potted herbs or lightweight hanging plants. Add shelves or hooks and shuffle things around as plants grow. It’s a space-saving way to get greenery without filling every inch of floor with pots.

12. Home office wall instead of one more bulky shelf

In a small office corner, pegboard beats another bookcase. Hang cups for pens, hooks for headphones, a little shelf for your router or hard drives, and clips for important papers. It keeps the desk surface clear and gives you a spot to stash tech that usually sits in piles.