Pegboard Gets a Stylish Upgrade
Pegboard has been popular for decades, organizing everything from our tools to Julia Child’s shiny copper pots. But while it’s certainly satisfying to see screwdrivers and kitchenware lined up just so, the modular, perforated board-and-peg system is typically prized more for its functionality than its good looks. That’s beginning to change, though, thanks to a new generation of custom and off-the-shelf pegboards finding their way into every room of the house. Below, check out 25 stylish examples popping up on Houzz.
St. Croix Custom Homes and Renovation
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Mudroom
1. The pretty custom built-ins in this Minneapolis mudroom include a pegboard wall that allows for a variety of storage configurations.
The system’s light wood contrasts nicely with the traditional-style cabinets, painted in Benjamin Moore’s Newbury Green.
2. The movable pegs in this Minnesota mudroom allow the cubbies to be customized to each kid’s height and liking, and the pegs can be repositioned as they grow.
3. A custom pegboard and cabinets made of birch plywood with a limewash finish outfit this Australian laundry room and mudroom.
Zoom in and you’ll see that some of the pegs have brightly painted ends, adding little zings of color to the room — and perhaps hiding discoloration caused by frequent touching of the pegs.
4. In North Carolina, this creative mudroom has a custom pegboard wall (designed by Retro+Fit Design, the homeowners and Osada Construction’s Cory Wax) that looks like a life-size Lite-Brite toy. Its movable acrylic pegs conduct remote, color-changing LED lights hidden behind the perforated black board.
5. This Minneapolis mudroom’s custom pegboard wall shows off the assortment of items that one can stow on a pegboard. Coordinating shelves are helpful for tricky-to-hang things.
Entry
6. In a tight entryway, a pegboard can allow you to squeeze in a lot more than a hall tree or coat rack can, as this packed-to-the-gills Denver-area system illustrates.
7. A pegboard also makes great use of the side of a cupboard or bookshelf. In the Boston area, a custom system provides a drop zone as one enters the home from the garage.
Stairs
8. Want an alternative to the basket full of “stuff-to-go-upstairs” that’s always in the way on your stairs?
Take inspiration from this staircase-adjacent pegboard made of colorful pegs and oiled dark walnut ply panels.
Kitchen
9. Sure, you can hang pots and pans on your kitchen pegboard. But don’t stop there — you can also hang towels and herbs or pretty houseplants like those on this British kitchen’s birch ply wall.
10. This relatively compact New York City apartment optimizes space with a full maple pegboard wall that includes 60 movable wood pegs.
11. If you’re not using the back of your island for seating or cabinets, it’s a prime spot for a pegboard, à la this birch plywood version in England. If you look really closely, you can see a colorful, hand-painted panel backing showing through the holes.
Sports Zone
12. A pegboard wall with movable pegs and shelves does the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping this San Diego, California, home gym organized.
13. Three out of four walls in this Santa Cruz, California, “board room” — a combination home bar and equipment room — are covered in oversize pegboard. In addition to this quiver of surfboards and bodyboards, the pegboard holds a stand-up paddle board, a paddle and a skateboard, among other fun items.
Crafts Corner
14. An off-the-shelf modular pegboard system helps keep supplies at crafters’ fingertips in this San Francisco home.
15. This Greenwich, Connecticut, craft room boasts a bespoke version of the craft-corner pegboard system.
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Kids Room
16. Pegboard is perfect for organizing those bits and bobs that always seem to clutter countertops. How sweet — and handy — is this pegboard full of toys, pacifiers and outfits in a Florida nursery?
17. In this San Diego-area bedroom, pegboard offers tons of flexibility and space savings, functioning as a bookcase, nightstand and headboard in one.
Play Space
18. The colorful geometric pattern painted onto this pegboard makes it a refreshing change from the more common all-white or all-ply versions.
19. Zoom in to check out the very practical and creative attachments on this custom pegboard wall. The racks, in particular, are great for toddlers’ board books.
20. This solid wood pegboard wall — Adaptiv DC’s myWall system — doesn’t just have attachments that store toys like Legos; some of the attachments are toys. Check out the Rube Goldberg-like ball drops and pulley-and-crane sets.
Tween or Teen Lair
21. As this teen boy’s bedroom illustrates, pegboard enables a room to grow and change with kids’ interests. The myWall system also has all kinds of attachments for transforming a wall into a home office and entertainment center.
22. A pegboard system can also help corral and display teenagers’ accessories.
Office Nook
23. Kids and adults alike can keep their workspaces organized with pegboard. Here’s a homework and drawing station.
24. Pegboard also spruces up this cool little office nook in a Brooklyn, New York, loft.
25. Finally, architects squeezed in an office made from an oak-veneered desktop and pegboard (made from an Australian company aptly named Peggie) in the hallway of this Australian home.