I just spent the summer organizing the fabric stored in the garage and my sewing room (8.5' by 11.5'). I made a drawing of the room on graph paper, added all the immovable shelves and then made cutouts of the furniture to scale, glued the sticky part of sticky notes on the back and played around with everything. I got a bunch of carts with rollers so I could block shelves so I had floor space but could move them to get to the stuff in the shelves. I have pegboard on the end of a shelf unit and in a number of other small wall spaces (my son-in-law made the things for me).