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Most garage fit-outs are pitched as one purchase: a run of wall rails, a set of bins, an afternoon at the store. Day to day, though, a garage asks for three different habits: tools that hang where you can grab them, small kit that shuttles between the car and the house, and heavier supplies you would rather wheel than carry. Each habit can be covered by one piece, and the pieces do not have to belong to the same range.
The three picks here are indoor storage pieces from IKEA Australia, each doing one of those jobs at a price that makes it a trial rather than a commitment: A$35.99, A$6.99 and A$35.99. The trolley carries a printed load limit, the pegboard needs accessories and fixings bought on top, and all three show what a garage needs before a rail system goes on the wall.
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A closer look at the products, who they may suit, and what to check before buying.
SKÅDIS Pegboard · 30 × 22 in
IKEA's SKÅDIS is a A$35.99 pegboard, 76 by 56 cm, with a wall rail included, which is enough surface for the hand tools a household reaches for every week.
Before you buy: Wall screws and every hook and container are sold separately, so the board is only the start of the spend. IKEA says to use screws and plugs suited to your wall.
Price checked 5 November 2026. Retailer prices can change.
RISATORP Wire Basket
RISATORP is a A$6.99 white powder-coated steel basket, 25 by 26 by 18 cm, which suits the cables, cloths and small tools that travel from garage to driveway and back.
Before you buy: IKEA Australia lists it for indoor use only and prints no maximum load on the white version's page, so keep it for light, dry kit; an open mesh basket keeps nothing out of the dust.
Price checked 5 November 2026. Retailer prices can change.
NISSAFORS Utility Cart · 203.997.77
NISSAFORS is a A$35.99 three-tier trolley on castors, 83 cm tall, with a stated 7 kg per tier and 21 kg in total, which moves paint, cleaning supplies or a toolbox to the job instead of the other way round.
Before you buy: IKEA lists it for indoor use and not approved for food contact, and 7 kg per tier is a real ceiling. A garage floor with a lip or a gravel apron defeats the castors.
Price checked 5 November 2026. Retailer prices can change.A garage is three habits wearing one word
Storage covers three separate movements. Hand tools want to hang in sight and within reach, small kit goes out to the car and comes back, and heavier supplies travel to wherever the job is. A rail system bought in one go only solves the first, and it locks in a wall layout before you have learned which tools you really use.
Covering each habit on its own is cheaper and more informative. After a few weeks the pegboard tells you which hooks get used and which never do, the basket tells you what actually leaves the garage, and the trolley tells you whether anything there is heavy enough to need wheels. By then a rail system is either clearly worth it or clearly not, and the three pieces stay useful either way.
The pegboard is the platform; the hooks are the purchase
IKEA's SKÅDIS pegboard is A$35.99 for a 76 by 56 cm board with the wall rail in the box, and everything else, the hooks, containers, holders and the screws for your particular wall, is sold separately. For a garage that is the right shape of product, because a wall of tools is rebuilt every time a new tool arrives, and a board with movable hooks absorbs that better than fixed shelving.
The board is only the start of the budget. IKEA's own SKÅDIS combination, the same board with a clip, a hook and two shelves, is A$54.99 at its regular price, so the accessories alone add about half again, and the fixings for brick, block or studs are a separate trip. Mount it where the tools are used, at a height where the top row is reachable, and leave a third of the holes empty for the tools you do not own yet.
The basket is for the kit that leaves the garage
RISATORP is a A$6.99 white powder-coated steel basket, 25 by 26 by 18 cm. A garage produces a specific class of object that never stays put: the tyre gauge, the microfibre cloths, the cable that lives in the car until it does not. A basket gives those things one address and a way to carry the whole address to the driveway.
Weight is the boundary, even without a printed figure: the white version's page lists no maximum load, while the dark grey version of the same basket states 4 kg, which is the small stuff and nothing more. An open mesh basket protects nothing from dust or damp, and IKEA Australia recommends it for indoor use only. For a household that already argues about where the good cloth went, this is the seven-dollar fix; for one that keeps everything in the car, it is a basket with no job.
The trolley moves the work instead of the worker
NISSAFORS is IKEA's A$35.99 three-tier trolley, 50.5 by 30 by 83 cm on castors, rated at 7 kg per tier and 21 kg in total, listed for indoor use and not approved for food contact. In a garage its job is the supplies that are too many to carry in one trip: a few brushes, a spray bottle or two, a toolbox that has to reach the far corner and come back.
Two limits shape where it works. Seven kilograms per tier is a ceiling, not a suggestion, so a tier holds a few tins and bottles rather than a stack of them. The castors need a floor to roll on, so a garage with a raised threshold, a gravel apron or a step to the yard stops the trolley at the door. Where the floor is flat and the loads are moderate, it lets you wheel the day's supplies to the job and park them again.
When the three pieces are the wrong scale
A garage that works as a workshop has outgrown all three. Power tools, timber offcuts and a bench covered in clamps call for shelving with a stated rating and wall storage built for loads well beyond a small mesh basket or a 7 kg tier, so go straight to the rail system and heavy-duty shelving.
A garage that mostly holds the car needs less. If all that lives there is a hose and a bag of potting mix, one wall hook does the job, and a pegboard plus its accessories is more system than the space can use. These three fit the in-between garage, the one holding a household's small tools, cleaning gear and spare supplies.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- IKEA Australia: SKÅDIS pegboard, white, 76 x 56 cm (903.216.19) (opens in a new tab)
- IKEA Australia: RISATORP basket, white, 25 x 26 x 18 cm (604.805.44) (opens in a new tab)
- IKEA Australia: NISSAFORS trolley, light green, 50.5 x 30 x 83 cm (706.068.16) (opens in a new tab)
