How do you store your paints?

[vcina]

How do you store your paints? I currently have 12 small plastic boxes which I've divided my paints up by color, ie. a box for blue and purple, one for browns and so on. But this takes up a lot of room in my cabinet. So I'm looking for ideas on how I can store these more efficiently. I primarily have Vallejo paints but I also have tubes of oils and acrylics and bottles of Craft Paints. Also there a few pots of Foundry paints as well.
Any suggestions?

[Billchuck]

Currently they are in a drawer of a small rolling cabinet I pull out when I'm going to paint. Before I moved, I used one of those stair step spice racks you can find in discount stores, with a box cut to fit around it and keep paints from falling off.

[FramFramson]

I have mine in a big tin that used to hold cookies. 

[zizi666]

Our club bought lots of stuff at an auction from a bankrupt gamestore.
Among that was a Valejo rack (paint pots incl.)
I cut up the rack so everyone involved had 1 level. I kept the bottom part for myself  :

[Stu]

I work on the 'out of the way unless I'm using it' approach. Workbench looks a bit rough but as the cats walk all over it and grandchildren want to 'look' while I'm not there it doesn't look too bad.

[snitcythedog]

I use ikea Riba picture shelves. 
Cheap and they can be attached to my workbench backing. 

Snitchy sends.

[vcina]

I've been looking at these.  I like them because they can hang on my wall.
http://krakenskulls.com/product/wooden-42-invertible-bottle-paint-rack-with-with-optional-custom-engraving/

[Grimmnar]

I've been looking at these.  I like them because they can hang on my wall.
http://krakenskulls.com/product/wooden-42-invertible-bottle-paint-rack-with-with-optional-custom-engraving/

Same.  Especially since they made the change.  Adding the hole for inverted dropper bottles.  Price I think is very fair to hold 42 bottles.  They can hang if desired.  And you can have your own stenciling done to boot.

Grimm

[Hat Guy]

I paint out of home a lot, so mine are in a backpack, in little ziplock bags organised by colour. I got the tip from a pro-painter i met once.

[Murmel]

Currently looking at one of these: https://paint-rack.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders#

Well two actually, if I want them to hold all of my paints. I do not have a permanent painting bench and these look like I could easily take them out of the closet I keep my paints in and haul them to the table without tipping any over.

[Legion1963]

Indeed. In a plastic storagebox with an insert that creates an upper level so to maximise the space. It is still sufficient but is getting quite full. So i am thinking of new means of storing my ever growing (albeit growing very slowly) paintsupply. ;-)

[Mindenbrush]

I use the racks from Miniaturicum - excellent value and very useful 

[Connectamabob]

I use a stack of plastic storage boxes that are the right internal height for most hobby brand pots and about as long/wide as a sheet of standard note paper. I parse them into different boxes according to color type (metallics, natural colors, unnatural colors...) and binder type (enamel, acrylic, dry pigments...).

[Daeothar]

I am using a drawer under my desk, with several cases in it, containing my paints. They're wood, and I believe they used to hold tea. they're not ideal, and getting quite too small, but they'll do for now.

Eventually, I would like to get me a better solution though. Especially since my paint collection has moved dramatically towards Vallejo at the cost of GW paints over the past few years.

Here's a particularly old montage picture of my workbench, with the paint drawer on the lower left:







DISCLAIMER: rest assured that ever since I had to rearrange (read: relocate completely to my desk) my storage area due to the arrival of our daughter (what does she need her own room for anyway ), the eyesearing tidiness has long gone, and my desk now looks like the chaotic reaches of the 3rd ring of hell that most hobbydesks resemble...

[freewargamesrules]

I have mine in a toolbox.